Edge of the Woods by Amanda Bates

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"Magical" is the word. Brings out the child in me (though it's never far away). Love the colours, the composition and the mystery. You are a gal of many talents!

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Thu 11 Jul 10:14:38

This is brilliant.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 11 Jul 11:13:25

Agreed, stunning painting Amanda, amazing description of how you came to doit and here you got your inspiration from!

Posted by Ros Patterson on Thu 11 Jul 11:45:15

Lovely - looks like an illustration in a child's book.

Posted by Thea Cable on Thu 11 Jul 15:46:10

This is really lovely Amanda.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 12 Jul 10:08:52

Hang on Studio Wall

01/04/2015

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Featuring... a woodland landscape with bluebells (part from my own photograph, part extrapolated); a rabbit (from a Wikipedia/Geograph photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Axminster,_bunny_on_the_verge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_982503.jpg ); and an orange tip butterfly (splodged in after I thought I'd finished, using a reference photograph from the Web). ~~~ Acrylic on emulsioned hardboard, approx 70 x 150 cm