The Undercliff

Looks very wild and windswept and I love the way you portray the undergrowth. It looks very free and loose but I bet it takes a lot of patience and skill to achieve.

A great deal of movement here and drama, as Val says, wild and windy. There is a strong suggestion to me of the sea, even though you haven't painted it, it feels coastal.

Thanks both. The sea certainly isn't far away - this is part of the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight; 20 minutes walk south from here, and you're on the shoreline.

Really like that patch of blue in the sky. This painting is full of weather and energy.

Fascinating and handsome painting. Your work always has a lot of motion and projects a strong, concentrated and quite delicious feeling. The only critique I have for some of your paintings is that sometimes there appear to be too many small dots, like speckles. This critique does not, however, apply to this painting.

Ah hah...I can now comment on this. I still cannot comment on your web page. Will have another go soon. I really would have to hang onto my hat in thisone Robert. I liked the first stage very much an almost abstract feeling and here the finished article. Lovely. Yours often remind me of Arthur Rackham. The detail and the colours.

Wow! Nearly got blown away... the forces of nature are out of our control thank goodness.... this is really dynamic, love it. (No little criter this time...?)

A windswept appeal. Love the textures again.

Thanks all. Eddy, I used bigger brushes here; I know of the tendency to which you refer, and it's caused by too much fiddling about with small brushes. Avril, there is a little critter, and he's on the path, but so small I doubt you'll find him - the problem was the scale: if I painted my usual rat large enough to be seen, he'd be about 6' long in reality: and even I don't want to meet a 6' rat....

Have I seen this windswept bush in another of your paintings? It really does look as though its on the cliffside, lovely feeling of wind just before the rain carrying the smell of the sea.

I was away for 2 days to visit my daughter and there you are already, banished to page 8. But anyway, it was worth looking back all those pages to find your beautiful "windy" painting. I bet you were in a very emotional state, painting this stormy weather-scene?

Missed this one completely. I think this is my favourite; so full of life and movement. The bushes really are alive and you can almost feel the wind in that sky.