Village gate near Dali, Yunnan province, China

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Beautiful colours and I love the light and shade.

Posted by Dawn Broughton on Sun 28 Apr 08:03:27

Agreed this is a lovely painting Alix

Posted by Ros Patterson on Sun 28 Apr 09:46:15

Thank you so much, Dawn and Ros. It was trickier than I thought with the different angles and crooked bits.

Posted by Alix Baker on Sun 28 Apr 16:14:02

Wonderful work. Such great depiction of the colours and light of the scene. Love it.

Posted by Thea Cable on Wed 01 May 10:02:24

Thanks, Thea. The colours are rather interesting in this village and it has some very old buildings which I might paint one day if I can find my notes!

Posted by Alix Baker on Wed 01 May 10:06:55

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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I loved the mixed surfaces of the buildings, gateway and the old wooden shop when I visited this village in Nov 2011. The little old woman is wearing traditional dress that is worn even when working in the fields.

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Alix Baker

After art school in London I spent several years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Busy jobs suspended my art side and eventually I left to devote more time to it. For the greater part of my art career I was one of the UK's leading military artists specialising in military dress through the…

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