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Lavender field by Michael Mcmanus

Lavender field
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This is a lovely painting Michael! Beautiful use of soft colours!

Every thing apart from the very central peak works for me Michael. The recession to the buildings is smashing.

That's kind of you Satu.

You're right Derek. And I'm always going on about chaos rather than linearity as truer to life. Chaos as a concept is much more interesting. It's not supposed to look so ordered and I should have offset it. Keep advising me please.

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08/02/2016
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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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