Denis Pickles

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This is gorgeous work Denis, super colours that really help to bring it to life, lovely details in the row of cottages and shops, when you say you worked quickly, how long did it actually take you?

Posted by Ros Patterson on Fri 03 May 13:32:15

I guess I would have been standing on the bridge with the book open, pen in hand and diddly paint box deployed for 90 minutes at the most. That includes talking time.

Posted by Denis Pickles on Fri 03 May 13:39:13

This is delightful - lovely spare pen work. Great stuff !

Posted by Beverley James on Fri 03 May 13:45:17

Love this - the colours are perfect and the pen work excellent.

Posted by Thea Cable on Fri 03 May 17:06:43

Super work Denis and all the more impressive as an on the spot work.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Fri 03 May 18:43:20

It's been said. Great.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Fri 03 May 19:26:51

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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Back to the sketch books. For several weeks in the summer, the Art Club to which I belong, meets out doors. You have to work fast because the light usually deteriorates after 8pm. This was painted on an evening in late summer. It was getting pretty murky when the colour was put on. Location? A village in the Fens.

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Denis Pickles

I’ve been drawing and painting for a long, long time. The first picture I have still in my possession is dated November 1939 and 83 years on I’m still at it! Keen on art at school and would have dearly liked a job with an art connection- I had hoped to get into architecture, but it did not happen.…

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