The Valley of Death

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Such a great expanse of landscape David. Good colour graded sky and got to ask, what are the plant / bushes called ?

Posted by Richard Cooper on Wed 22 Sep 14:59:41

What a name for the place - like it David, those cacti(?) are brilliant

Posted by Heather Love on Wed 22 Sep 15:14:36

Richard - they are aloes - a type of succulent that is prevalent all over South Africa. I have had my knuckles wrapped by a Botanist in the past for saying they are cacti as apparently they are not!

Posted by David Stevens on Wed 22 Sep 15:27:16

Excellent painting David, such vastness

Posted by David Johns on Wed 22 Sep 17:11:46

Another lovely painting David. Love the sky

Posted by Faye Patrick on Wed 22 Sep 19:22:44

Very interesting painting.

Posted by Denise Cat on Thu 23 Sep 05:08:42

Hang on Studio Wall

22/09/2021

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A watercolour of an arid area of South Africa near the Karroo town of Graaff-Reinet.

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David Stevens

I am a retired civil engineer who has been sketching and painting watercolours and acrylics as a hobby for the past twenty years or so. I grew up in Africa and worked in Southern Africa and Botswana for a number of years but have spent the past forty years or so resident in England with my family. I…

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