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A Painting A Week No 127 – Chania, Crete

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For Sale – 31st July 2013 – 

We were in Crete a little over a year ago with some Sydney friends, and this was my favourite place. Chania is the second largest city in Crete, but it feels more like a bustling town. The ‘old town’ is built around a lovely harbour, and crammed with the usual Greek tavernas and bars. Behind this, is a myriad of lanes and alleyways to explore – fairly touristy I guess, but the whole place does have a great buzz to it, even when you get further away from the harbour, where’ll you’ll also find some interesting Minoan excavations, as well as Venetian and Turkish areas.

This painting is of a very small area along the waterfront (our hotel was the pale blue one on the right!), with the haphazard line of awnings, and shops and restaurants below. It was fairly windy when we visited, and the harbour was rough, hence no boats lined up along the front.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

Chania, Crete
Price:  AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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A Painting A Week No 126 – Fishing Boat, Koroni Harbour

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For Sale – 25th June 2013 – SOLD –

Not a very exciting title for a painting, but I seem to have Greek fishing boats everywhere I look right now, as well as in Koroni harbour and the bay below us. I’ve been painting them, sketching them, and sticking them onto collages. Each little waterside village around here has its unique selection of boats, and yes, most of them really do go out fishing each day, or night, and keep all the local restaurants full of seafood. I just love the shape of them, all the accoutrement hanging off them, not to forget all the little ‘sticky uppy bits’ (which I’ve recently told my students not to ignore!)

Summer has arrived with a vengance now – too hot for sitting on the edge of harbours sketching, but perfect for relaxing in any one of Koroni’s many cafes with an ice cold frappe, or an ouzo in your hand!

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

Fishing Boat, Koroni Harbour
Price:  AUD$ SOLD
Size: 21 x 15cm
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Venezia, Italy

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Details of this painting can be found in Gallery – Collage.

This collage was created from of a series of my sketches from Venice, blended with bits of Italian newspaper, various mediums and mixed media. It’s interesting loosely sketching the little gondolas – one wrong move, and its all over!

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Poppies at the Chateau

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Details of this painting can be found in Gallery – French Life.

I photographed these poppies whilst staying at Chateau Mouillepied in the Charente area of France way back in 2005. Although it was a rather modest chateau, they had the most beautiful gardens, and when I arrived I had to seek out Monsieur who was merrily digging away amongst the bushes. I knew one day I’d finally get around to painting these poppies.

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A Painting A Week No 125 – Sassi di Matera, Italy

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For Sale – 7th June 2013 –

Matera w lights

After scooting back and forth across Italy during the last few years, it was amazing to stumble across the unique old quarter of Matera.

The city of Matera is in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy and the Sassi area is a World Heritage site, but it still seems to be relatively unknown. Within the boundaries of a fairly modern city, Sassi di Matera (meaning stones of Matera) lies in two canyons which are crammed with ancient cave dwellings, carved into and projecting from the canyon walls. In fact, it is the most intact example of a troglodyte settlement in the Mediterranean area. Over the centuries these cave dwellings have been multiplying and continually used for housing, shops, and the sheltering of animals.

Until the 1980’s the Sassi di Matera was considered an area of terrible poverty, even after the 1950’s, when the government tried to relocate residents living there.  Although it now now been a little gentrified |(but not too much – the boutique hotels are rather scattered!), a wander through the laneways certainly gives you the feel of  ‘ancient living’. The area and its surrounds also has a large amount of rock churches. What better place to film Mel Gibson’s film ‘The Passion of Christ’!

Matera

Looking down into the Sassi is quite an unbelievable sight, but it really was difficult to capture its essence in photos, mainly due to its size, the fact that its spread over two gorges, and also because you’re either looking down into it, or up out of it! With this painting though, I tried to concentrate on a small but fairly prominent area rising up one side, to portray the density and the monotone appearance.

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Sassi di Matera, Italy
Price:  AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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A Painting A Week No 124 – Mission Beach Palms

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For Sale – 7th May 2013 –

My first painting of swaying palm trees. There’s something about the leaning trunks and haphazard fronds that made it a pleasure to paint.  These palms were at Mission Beach, Queensland, where we spent the night on our way from Port Douglas to Townsville. Its a lovely drive through lush tropical areas of sugar cane with a sense of umm, I think perhaps….timelessness!  Unfortunately, Mission Beach was hit hard in last year’s Cyclone Yasi, but seems to be recovering slowly. It has a lovely unspoilt feel to it, and although it was getting a bit late in the season, we managed a wonderful ‘real’ Aussie hamburger for dinner, complete with beetroot (much to Peter’s dismay!)

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

Mission Beach Palms
Price:  AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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A Painting A Week No 123 – The Olive Tree, Koroni

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For Sale – 1st May 2013 –

This olive tree is an integral part of our view and stands proudly in our neighbour, Vassili’s field, with the blue sea behind. A good subject I think, to recommence my 2013’s artistic pursuits!

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

The Olive Tree, Koroni
Price:  AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
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A Painting A Week No 122 – Shutters, Pont de Vecchio

Shuttered, Pont de Vecchio

For Sale – 26th February 2013 –

I finished this painting just before we left Koroni, and the photo was taken on a visit to Florence during our last spring trip to Italy.  I always seem to spend ages in the attempt to get good photos of the Pont de Vecchio – there’s something about the angles that I just can’t seem to capture, though I do have some photos with good reflections!  Until I do manage to crack it, here’s my interpretation of its wonderful wonky shutters.

I do often wonder whether all those hoards of people peering into the jewelers’ shops on the bridge ever spend time actually looking at the character of this lovely bridge.

These photos show 2 different sections of the bridge. It was evidently built in medieval times, and is unique in that it still has shops enclosed inside.

And whilst I’m on the subject of the Pont de Vecchio, my father was in Florence with the NZ Military at the end of World War II, and took this photo. Its amazing that the bridge itself wasn’t destroyed. This was supposedly due to an express order by Hitler!

As you can see from this photo, the approach to Pont de Vecchio was destroyed.  A little bit of history with this week’s painting!

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Shutters, Pont de Vecchio
Price:  AUD$90.00
Size:  21cm x 15cm
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A Painting A Week No 121 – Languedoc Harvest

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For Sale – 11th February 2013 –

Another appropriate painting this week as we’re here in the Languedoc again. There’re no golden leaves left on the grapes now, but the countryside is still looking beautiful with its rows of bare vines, the golden sandy soil, and the huge skies.  We’re staying with friends in the lovely village of Magalas, and seem to be spending an awful lot of time driving along what I always think of as ‘Napoleon’s French roads’! – long and straight and lined on either side with rows of bare plain trees, their silver trunks sparkling in the winter light.

If you would like to buy this painting, please click on this link to my Art Weekly Online Shop, or if you’d rather deal with me direct, please email me at jackie@jackiesherwood.com.

Languedoc Harvest
Price: AUD$90.00
Size: 21 x 15cm
(Postage and handling included)