Ben Haslam by Ben Haslam

It is truly magical and really stunning!! Thanks for all the information provided.

This is one of the most beautiful watercolours I have ever seen. Great aerial perspective, and lovely colours. Thanks for your info. Good luck with finding a publisher.

Wish I were a publisher, since I should seize on this. An inspired choice to use FW inks with your watercolour. Turner would have been proud - and would certainly have used them himself. Your eye goes right where you intended it to go in this painting, so I didn't see the figures at first - so many paint scenes like this as though man were at the centre of the image, whereas he's just a detail of something greater; you've conveyed that.

PS - it's a long shot in these stringent economic times, but you might find it useful to send a prospectus and a good scan of your paintings to the Folio Society, Eagle Street, London.

Thankyou for your lovely comments. It really makes a difference and inspires me to work . Thanks also to Robert for you suggestion over the Folio Society. I am aware of them and will persue. We have had a bit of s stuggle finding a publisher for illustrated fiction. We are going to have another push with the novel in the new year..

Absolutely gobsmackingly superb. I could happily stare at this painting for hours. My watercolours are now going in the bin LOL

Very very impressed by this...the light is fantastic, and your technique is great, very imaginative. Searching for a publisher can be very discouraging...you just have to keep at it, and you can always paper the loo with the rejection slips....but KEEP AT IT!

What a beautiful painting.

Beautiful use of colour and light.

Magical. As a boy I was fascinated by the 3-D panoramic tourist maps of mountain ranges. Though accuracy is often sacrificed to effect, their ability to combine cartographic detail with the vividness of a photograph is tantamount to a projection of the imagination. In this sweeping oblique view from some virtual peak, perspective is manipulated in a manner worthy of Canaletto. Well done!

Thankyou agian to all and to Kim Sommerchild for your comment. The double perspective was a challenge . I wanted to create a slight uneasiness as if one is teetering on a brink ,the viewer is distracted by the beauty of the light unaware of the danger at foot. I use subtle lines cut into the papers with a dentist drill !!