Tetbury by Jeanette Clarke

Jeanette, I love your gallery. Your paintings are clean, bright and loose.....I'm envious of your style!!!

As with your last posting, there's a lovely balance here of figurative and abstract, I feel, and it certainly works for me! A lovely soft limited palette helps as well, I think.

I really admire your work and where you are trying to go with it. I know Tetbury reasonably well and you have definitely got the golden glow of the buildings. Love the design and the linear shapes. The only suggestion I could make is based on another of your paintings - the Arundel one, which is similarly constructed. However, with the Arundel one you have made the sky very strong and dramatic and it occurs to me that this would work well with the Tetbury one as well and serve to emphasis the lightness and glow of the buildings. In some of your paintings, when you have put more details into the buildings, you have gone for a quiet sky which works really well, but with these more abstract ones I think you need some drama somewhere. However, I know nothing about abstract or even semi-abstract work so I could be talking through a hole in my head!

Your paintings are very good. This piece does not have the whites, but it is well balanced and quite good on itsown.

Great paintings. This is particularly striking. Good use of form, colour and space.

I could never do it, but I like your style very much. You have such a strong pen work, and a very subtle use of colours. I love it!!!

Perhaps you could try not completing all of the housesbut only some of the lines to give impressions of what you want to convey with a few 'L' shapes for windows then the viewer can make if it what they choose. Personally I like the semi-abstract style where we can see what it evolved from . The only abstracts I like have very strong colour combinations and drama. But then art is subjective and I am only coming from one point of view - mine - which is no better or worse than anyone else's.

Nothing wrong with this . Perfect