Details of this painting can be found in Gallery – Greece.
This lovely Greek fishing boat is one of many seen bobbing about in Koroni harbour. They are owned by local fishermen and head off each day for their catch, which is mostly sold to the local restaurants. Koroni, in the background, is a small town of whitewashed houses tumbling down the hillside towards the harbour. A perfect setting for an artist to live!
31st August 2014 –
A slightly different format for my Art Weekly this time, as I’m trying various techniques in different formats. As you can see, this is a small canvas, which I really enjoy painting on, and I particularly like the fact that it doesn’t need framing, or if it is framed, it doesn’t need to be put under glass. I’ve used gesso and thicker paint on this canvas to add a little texture.
Continuing on with my current ‘favourite Greek Island’, I absolutely love this church which towers over the edge of Skopelos harbour, and have spent many hours trying to capture it in sketches and various painting styles. It seems to be sending an invitation to climb up the stairs and peek into its hidden corners! I believe it’s name is ‘The Church of the Presentation of Virgin Mary’ or Panagitsa tou Pyrgou – far too complicated to incorporate into a painting name! The temple of the church evidently dates back to the 17th century and it contains icons from the 18th and 19th centuries plus a large icon that was salvaged from the sea. Beside the church there is a very cute single-aisle chapel dedicated to All Saints. The church and chapel are equally as beautiful looking down from above, with the church towers sitting against a backdrop of brilliant turquoise water. (I think perhaps I’ll paint something from France or Italy next week – everyone must be tired of hearing about brilliant turquoise water.)
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The White Church, Skopelos
Price: AUD$100.00
Size: 20 x 20cm (canvas)
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18th June 2014 –
As mentioned in my email, we leave Koroni tomorrow for the beautiful Greek Island of Skopelos where I’ll be tutoring at the inaugural Skopelos Art Painting Holidays. I’m really looking forward to a week of introducing people to the fun and joys of painting. What a perfect way to spend a holiday on a lovely Greek Island – painting in the morning, a taverna at lunchtime, and perhaps recovering the beach for the rest of the day… and then there’s dinner! If you’ve ever had the urge to learn to paint, what better way to do it. Perhaps check out the Skopelos Art Blog in a few days, to see what wonderful creations we’ve come up.
This painting, slightly larger than usual, is one of my impressions of Skopelos – a jumble of white buildings spilling down the hillside into the turquoise blue harbour. I’m looking forward to exploring all the little lanes and also seeing how many churches I can find. According to Wikipedia there’s about 360 churches and chapels on the island!
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Skopelos, Greece
Price: AUD$130.00
Size: 25 x 18cm
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I was invited to take part in an Art Exhibition at the lovely Villa Koch with several other local artists of various nationalities.
It was a full-on weekend of art, music, food and wine and a wonderful experience to be amongst such a varied group of great artists.
To view the Gallery of paintings in this Exhibition CLICK HERE
If you’re in the area this coming weekend, call in and see some interesting artworks.
13th May 2014 –
When I visited the island of Alonissos last summer I spent time at a watercolour workshop learning with Artist, Christopher Hughes http://www.paintingalonissos.com/ and one of the beautiful places we visited to paint was the little chapel of Agios Anighiri, perched on the edge of the cliff with stunning views below to the Aegean and the nearby islands. After a wander through the pine forest to get to the chapel, I attempted a rather delicate watercolour (very unusual for me!) – see below. Sitting even closer to the edge of the cliff was the lovely simple bell in this week’s painting.
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The Bell, Alonissos
Price: AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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22nd April 2014 – SOLD –
I took this photo of the harbour in Polperro when we visited the UK in December. This is my first ever painting of anywhere in England and the colour palette was a bit challenging! One of my reasons for wanting to visit Cornwall again after nearly 40 years was to see and photograph these tiny fishing villages tucked into the Cornish coast.
Polperro is a magical place with its jumble of small white houses and narrow streets set around a pretty harbour with its bobbing boats (when the tide’s in) – sounds a bit like Greece really, apart from the tide, but, way different! The fish and chips eaten in a little topsy turvey pub on the harbours edge were most definitely a high point. It really doesn’t take much imagination to evoke the centuries of its history as a thriving smugglers port either.
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Polperro, Cornwall
Price: SOLD
Size: 21 x 15cm
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9th April 2014
There is something about the little harbour in Sanary sur Mer that I find quite magical. It’s lined with colourful Provencal style buildings, and tightly crammed with lovely old, even more colourful, traditional fishing boats. Tiny sea food stalls often line the port, selling today’s catch; each stall proudly labelled with the name of the boat it was caught on. There is also a wonderful daily market under the trees with the usual spectacle of beautifully arranged fresh fruit and vegetables that the French do so very well.
Sanary sur Mer is a small, but interesting town on the French Cote d’Azur. In the pre-war 1930’s, Sanary became home to a large number of German writers and intellectuals. I particularly like a quote from one, Hermann Kesten; “If one lives in exile, the café becomes at once the family home, the nation, church and parliament, a desert and a place of pilgrimage, cradle of illusions and their cemetery… In exile, the café is the one place where life goes on”. How true! Sadly, following the outbreak of war, most of these exiles were imprisoned in Camp des Milles, a French concentration camp on the outside of Aix en Provence.
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Blue Boats, Sanary sur Mer
Price: AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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For Sale – 5th March 2014
This painting is a smaller version of one I’ve nearly completed. My first painting of this scene was about 15 years ago, from a photo I took when we stayed there in the 1970’s.
On a visit back to Crete a year or two ago, it seemed a good time to visit Sitia once again. I’d always had great memories of staying in a simple room there, right on the edge of the lovely harbour, and was interested to see what had changed. Rather a lot had in fact, but despite a lot more modern apartment buildings, it has still managed to retain lots of character around the harbour, and if one squints a little, the buildings behind it can still look as they did back in the 70’s!
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Sitia, Crete
Price: AUD$ 90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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In conjunction with the Koroni Arts Festival, my latest and joint exhibition with fellow artist Gill Tomlinson, got off to a flying start with a great opening on 11th September. We were fortunate to be able to have our Exhibition in the lovely Maniatakeion building in ‘downtown’ Koroni, perfect with its large white walls and high ceilings. It was a particularly hot and steamy night, and I think the very professional interview and video has Gill and I looking surprisingly composed and cool!
I had various recently completed paintings on display, along with Gill’s mostly collage and mixed media works. The table down the middle of the Gallery contained our sketchbooks, which created a lot of interest. Some people even asked if they were for sale…. right!
