Hearts of Oak

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love the silhouette effect

Posted by tony palmer on Mon 10 Aug 18:26:14

Lovely painting Richard

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Mon 10 Aug 18:44:58

Beautiful palette Richard, super watercolour.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Mon 10 Aug 18:57:52

Very atmospheric Richard. The whole thing is immaculately painted but I love the sky.

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Mon 10 Aug 20:44:44

A lovely painting Richard, great sky :)

Posted by Maria Hughes on Mon 10 Aug 20:49:44

You've posted sme great stuff Richard - i do like the washes in both the sky and sea/sand in this one.

Posted by Michael Edwards on Mon 10 Aug 21:25:11

Really like the simplicity of this and the sky creates a dramatic atmosphere.

Posted by Jenny Harris on Tue 11 Aug 10:18:45

This is really beautiful. You have captured the peace of the scene perfectly.

Posted by Audrey Hynds on Wed 12 Aug 12:22:13

Well here's the value of POL staff posting on Facebook, because I didn't see this when it was posted and could so easily have missed it on the Gallery. <br /><br />The sort of "simple" painting that is astonishingly hard to actually do, and a beautiful result.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Wed 12 Aug 13:53:43

Superb washes, Richard. Lovely.

Posted by Jennifer Alsop on Mon 28 Sep 23:50:54

Hang on Studio Wall

10/08/2015

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Last boat built on Ulverston canal

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Richard Quirk

Born 1948 at Dalton-in-Furness. Educated Dowdales CS school. Have spent most of my time at sea, first as a radio officer with BP tankers then 20 years offshore on ROV's. I have also been a technical author for the last 10 years at BAE, Freelance and Sellafield. A member of the Ulverston Society of…

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