Canal Boats On A Cloudy Day

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I like your style of painting very much Roger, and enjoyed looking throughtyour gallery of lovely pictures. In this painting of the canal, the water is rendered beautifully and the composituion is superb.

Posted by Chandra Ward on Sun 07 Feb 16:11:04

You have an ideal subject matter on your doorstep Roger. Making superb use of it like this work must give you a lot of inspiration

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sun 07 Feb 20:44:59

Thank you, Chandra and Derek for your kind comments.

Posted by Roger Turner on Tue 09 Feb 09:00:06

Hang on Studio Wall

07/02/2016

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Acrylic on canvas board. This is an image of the Black Country industrial landscape in decline. The British canal system was the motorway network of its day in the 18th and 19th century. They are now predominantly used for pleasure cruising. We had just had a significant rain storm and as it passed over the canal I managed to take a few moody industrial landscape photographs that could be worked up into a painting. This is the result.

About the Artist

Roger Turner

Having been born in Great Bridge, in the heart of the industrial West Midlands, England in 1956, most of Roger's formative years were spent in Australia, living in Sydney, Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle, finally returning to live in England in 1978. Roger is an artist, who has been painting and…

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