Cotswold Corner

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Lovely painting John. Great strong trees. Think it worked out well

Posted by Faye Patrick on Mon 04 Oct 16:45:11

A beautiful part of the country and a beautifully painting of it.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Mon 04 Oct 17:08:29

Good strong painting John - like that a lot: incidentally, I well remember the summer of 1976: my very elderly dogs lay flat out all day, like lizards on a stone, soaking it all up.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Mon 04 Oct 17:16:44

The more I see this John the more I like it. I spent the summer of 76, dealing with two crashed aircraft and a five square mile forest fire near Mildenhall in Suffolk , it was extremely hot.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Mon 04 Oct 18:36:26

Like this a lot John, such a wonderful sense of distance and I really like that soft was in the sky and background

Posted by Heather Love on Tue 05 Oct 08:50:49

Great work again John. Love the way you have painted the wall.

Posted by George Cutter on Tue 05 Oct 09:36:31

Hang on Studio Wall

04/10/2021

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A quiet corner near Lower Slaughter. Studio painting from my own sketch, using some wax resist. In 1976 it was so hot that even in shade, watercolour was drying, as fast as I applied it to the paper. Finally I gave up and resorted to pencil sketches that day.

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John Walker

I have painted most of my life. Childhood Christmases usually found a box of watercolours in my 'stocking'. I left school in 1954 and within 6 months I had enlisted in the Royal Navy, starting at the infamous HMS Ganges, near Shotley, Suffolk. Artists country yes, but no time for such things while…

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