Governador Celso Ramos, mountain

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Governador Celso Ramos, mountain, oil on card, 24 x 21.2 cm

This is a sort of Cezanne-influenced picture that  find it very agreeable to paint from time to time, though Cezanne`s brushstrokes are usually more systematic than mine.

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Florianopolis: in the centre- Rua Blumenau

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Rua Blumenau, a white building, oil on card, 18 x 17.5 cm - available

The streets of Florianopolis weave and twist in the strangest ways. You start walking around, then find yourself right back where you started, having managed to go in a giant circle quite unawares.

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Society of Scottish Artists 121st Annual Exhibition

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I`m pleased to say that three pictures were accepted for this  exhibition, which runs from 23rd December to 17th January at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

 They are from Berwick, Sifi Ifni, Morocco and  Central Park, New York.

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Florianopolis, centre

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 Florianopolis, centre, street

 oil on card, 20 x 17.5 cm  unavailable

Florianopolis, blue striped building

oil on card, 21 x 24 cm -unavailable

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Edinburgh Art Fair 2018

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I`ll have work here at the Society of Scottish Artists stand.

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Ratones, afternoon in October

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Ratones, afternoon in October, oil on card, 19.5 x 24 cm

I shall do some research into Ivon Hitchins, in whose shadow I step.

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Praia Mole, October

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Praia Mole, October, oil on card, 20 x 23.5 cm - available

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Florianopolis

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Rua Herman Blumenau, oil on card, 20 x 16.5 cm- unavailable

This is the first of a run depicting places in central Florianopolis- a busy, often battered locale.

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Praça XV, Florianopolis

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 Praça XV, Florianopolis, from the Cathedral  available

 oil on card, 15.5 x 14.5 cm

 Praça XV, Florianopolis, oil on card, 21.5 x 17.5 cm

These works continue a series of Floripan paintings done with a view to the Association of Artists of Santa Catarina (ACAP, which I recently joined) Christmas exhibition. The architecture of the town centre is often highly detailed and, though prettily coloured, makes a rather fussy basis for the sort of painting I enjoy.

The city is full of vagrants and rough sleepers who rather seem to take over the city after the shops close. 

These pictures pursue the simple style, somewhat like that used in children`s books, and which seems appropriate to the character of the town.

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Praça Getúlio Vargas, Florianopolis,

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 Big white building, Praça Getúlio Vargas, oil on card, 19.5 x 17.5 cm - unavailable

Praça Getúlio Vargas, trees, oil on card, 19 x 17.5 cm

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View from the road to Sambaqui

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View from the road to Sambaqui, oil on card, 19.5 x 24 cm unavailable

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