Drawings
British vernacular architecture and landscape
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A taste of eternal English summer when
lilies and roses fill the air with heavy scent.
In the water gardens behind, the stream trickles endlessly, dragonflies
darting among the lily pads.
Lush loved gardens, delicately tended.
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Lower Hall, Worfield.
Image 55 by 36 cm.
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Worfield is a lovely village, lying just a few miles north-east from Bridgnorth
on the way to Wolverhampton.
The image is also in Maggie's book (see below).
There
is a magic in the wooded hills which flows and fills the valley, hinting
at different lives and different times.
So old : so old.
Flanked by a sea of yellow rape and rippling corn this great stone ship
comes sailing down. Brambles and wild oats are pushed aside
like ocean waves.
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Stokesay Castle.
Image 57 by 76 cm.
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This is in Maggie's book (see below).
Limited
edition prints
My old yearning to live on a farm long
gone, I now feast my eyes and capture the traditional buildings soon to
be converted.
What of the swallows, owls, and secret creatures? Countless dark recesses
smelling of hay and animals soon to be lost.
A moving figure in the gloom attracts the ever hungry sheep
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Barns at Muckley Cross.
Image 57 by 76 cm.
Framed 76 high by 95
£425
The barns lie on the eastern side of the road between the delightful small
town of Much Wenlock and Bridgnorth. Newly converted.
This is in Maggie's book (see below).
"One of the best drawings I've done".
The dovecot at the beautiful National Trust house at Erddig, near Wrexham.
The ivies are Buttercup, Ritter Kreuze, Merion Beauty and Peter. Erddig has a famous ivy collection.
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Dovecot at Erddig
Pen & ink & watercolour
Image size 25 x 38
Framed 40.5 x 54 cm.
£135
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in pack of five. £4.50Click to enquire about picture
The Iron Bridge at Ironbridge is the first that
ever was made, and it's the subject of most pictures that one sees of
the village. But these chimneys are close by too, and equally impressive.
This image is one that of the sixty that appear in Maggie's book of Shropshire
scenes.
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Ironbridge Chimneys.
Image approx 36.5 wide by 55 cm.
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Much Wenlock Guild Hall
This image another that appears in Maggie's
book of Shropshire scenes.
Image approx 36.5 high by 55 cm.
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