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I can feel the desolation & the dry heat in this one. A feeling I can do with as I'm freezing here in Derbyshire!

Posted by Carole Swingler on Wed 04 Nov 15:08:42

Lovely delicate colours...I particularly like the right hand tree there are a few paintings to be made from that reference.

Posted by Neil Walker on Wed 04 Nov 15:54:44

I never made it to Namibia, even though I lived 'next door' in Botswana for a while. You have captured the moment, and I recognize this type of tree as there were many like this living and dead, where I lived on the edge of the Kalahari. No place here to hide from the sun!

Posted by Lesley Dabson on Wed 04 Nov 15:56:11

Great painting Sylvia, really nice colours, and I just love that tree.

Posted by Karleen Pearce on Thu 05 Nov 11:20:56

A lovely warm painting....like the others we love that tree.

Posted by max lennox on Sat 07 Nov 00:09:24

Lovely dead tree. You portray the harsh environment very well indeed.

Posted by Linda Wilson on Sat 04 Apr 09:07:44

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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Another painting in Namibia. One of my very precious moments.. if you look at my blog this is the picI am painting for my profile ( Bright shiney day) This place is just magic and at this moment there was no one elase just colour, shape and heat. I used oil pastel to convey the high lights on the petrified trees.

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Sylvia Evans

Sylvia Evans. I am mainly a self taught artist, though I did spend a year at Rochdale School of Art in the late 1950’s. I was then made to get a “Proper Job” by my father, so I spent the next few years in a nursing career. I married and had a family, just picking up a pencil to amuse my…

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