Shell Hole, Wireless Ridge

Shole WRidge
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Coming from a family in which we have all served, I think you have done this scene justice in the way you have rendered it Anthony, great solid and dynamic brush strokes and the color pallet doing justice to the vegetation also a small remembrance of those who are still out there and in Aldershot cemetery. nice one

Thankyou Malcolm for your perceptive comments. You are quite right and I do echo the absolute need for remembrance. Not dwelling in the past, but learning lessons from it. I was trying to convey the emotion of that time to some who perhaps have not experienced such things. A scene of shattered rock and earth and of shattered lives. But looking forward in hope for the future. Once again many thanks, your comment is much appreciated.

You have a gift for this type of expression Anthony and there is a lot in this painting. I like it very much.

I like this. Looks very interesting.

PS My dad was a lecturer inn electrical engineering. When he retired he was like a kid let loose! All happy and smiles, enjoying his freedom again. Hope it is good for you.

Hang on Studio Wall
08/09/2020
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Acrylic on paper. This image is an expressive impression of a photograph I took in 1984 whilst serving in the South Atlantic. It is a scene that was created in a destructive flash during the conflict. As such I felt that a tightly detailed rendition would not convey the ambience of what lay before me on that occasion. So, the result was executed very rapidly and with some vigour. The dark sky hints at the shadow of the past conflict and the light horizon at hope for the future.

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Anthony Stubbs

Now passed my allotted span of three score years and ten and enormously relishing being fully retired from paid employment as a lecturer in electronic engineering, working part time did give me more time to pursue my interests, now I have all the time in the world and the future has become even…

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