The Lockkeeper's Cottage, Heybridge Basin

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Nice bright crisp work David,

Posted by Jim Morris on Fri 25 Aug 11:48:52

Lovely feeling of light here David.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Fri 25 Aug 12:25:45

It says 'Summers Day' David, nice painting.

Posted by Willie Drea on Fri 25 Aug 12:39:22

Super work David, I like how you have picked out the blue in the boats and also the blue tone in the roof.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Fri 25 Aug 15:15:48

Light is beautiful !!

Posted by Audrey Hynds on Fri 25 Aug 18:18:05

So bright and clean David, super painting.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 25 Aug 19:04:29

A lovely work David,

Posted by David Johns on Fri 25 Aug 19:48:03

Thank you all very much for those kind comments. Much as I like painting bleak moorland wildscapes, bright sunlit softer scenes do seem to make more impact, don't they?

Posted by David Whitehead on Fri 25 Aug 21:18:05

An excellent piece, with lovely composition and light.

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sat 26 Aug 13:13:03

Hang on Studio Wall

25/08/2017

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I recently spent a weekend painting with a friend in Essex. This spot was a favourite of Edward Wesson's and I think this painting benefitted from his influence.

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and now, since early retirement, painting it in watercolour. I prefer to paint in the field and have experienced all the difficulties the British weather can present to a painter, from the sun drying the paint on the…

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