Summer on the Thames at Lechlade

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Very pleasing, calming composition - and I like the foreground textures. Would that be a weeping willow to the left of the bridge? The tree I hate to paint - and hardly ever do, if I can avoid it. Very difficult to avoid it looking like a large bunch of stinging-nettles, but I think you've managed it.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sun 04 Nov 12:48:20

Love this - technically very good (looks like an oil painting).

Posted by Guy Bailey on Sun 04 Nov 16:23:12

Excellent painting, Barry, with its calm, serene and warm atmosphere. I like everything about it, and yes, it does look like an oil painting. Great work. Bri

Posted by Brian J Mackay on Sun 04 Nov 18:22:18

Nice one, arry

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Mon 05 Nov 14:56:48

Sorry, I mean Harry, not my accent!

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Mon 05 Nov 14:58:00

Hang on Studio Wall

04/11/2018

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Stopped here for a picnic lunch whilst enjoying a cycle ride on a perfect summer's day. I have attempted to capture the heady combination of heat, beauty and lazy calm of this perfect height-of-summer day. Acrylic on 18" x 14" canvasboard.

About the Artist

Barry Hill

Began painting in my early twenties, but family and teaching career intervened until I took early retirement in 1997. Went watercolour painting in various nearby locations until 2008 when I joined professional artist Julia Christie in her Stroud Garden Studio group until she left for Skye. Her help…

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