Priddy Village Pond by George Cutter

So good , this one is really outstanding certainly has the old masters impressionist look and that’s not a derogatory reference. As I’ve looked at it for a while I do believe it’s right at the top of your best ever painting’s George

A superb result!!

Properly "wet" water - quite difficult to do, I find.

Delicious range of greens and derivatives therof.. a beauty George!

Excellent and I think Paul and Robert have said it all!

Its very effective, George

This is done really well George.

A superb painting!

I liked the sketch, but the range of greens in this version is beautiful.

A lovely painting !

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Up to your usual high standard. It’s got me thinking what ‘priddy’ means in a place name. Must look it up…I only know the one in Hampshire.

Everything comes alive in this one George, the water, the reeds/irises, trees -terrific work.

Thank you very much Lewis and Willie. This Priddy is in the Mendip Hills in the middle of nowhere Lewis, all there is there is a couple of pubs and an occasional sheep fair. I've never thoight about the meaning of the name.

I looked it up George. In place names it derives from Celtic and means ‘earth house’. To add confusion, in old English it means ‘three hills’. If the place is named after a person, priddy means ‘son of a lord’. You don’t need to know that of course.

Thanks for the info Lewis, all the years I knew and worked in and around Priddy village on the Medips, I not once thought about finding out about the name. I knew the lady who lived in the old village vicarage, ran some classes from her place. She was Dutch and her family imported dutch cheese. Her main office was in London and there was a blue plaque on the wall of the London office saying that Van Gogh had lived there. Nothing to do with Priddy but interesting. One of the pubs used to collect hugh snails from the stone walls around about and they actually exported them to France.

Gorgeous painting George.

That is very interesting George. This ancient country of ours is crammed with such interest. Place names have always interested me, they reflect our long history. I was born in Greenwich, London and wondered what ‘wich’ meant, knowing that it was attached to many place names, had to find out from the library back then. It means ‘trading place’. As a kid I saw many of the spritsail barges that Alan draws. The small cargo ships of their day…coal, oil, and market produce. All this comes from looking at your painting. We walk in history.

Top draw. Again 👏👏

Thank you very much Sandra, Lewis and Martin. You and I lewis are of the same age, give or take a month or two and we sure have seen quite a lot of modern history being made. May it continue for a while yet.

This is an outstanding painting George - the colours, tones and textures are all excellent.

Thank you very much Shaun