Aguas Mornas: a landscape with trees and fields

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Aguas Mornas: a landscape with trees and fields, oil on card, 20 x 24 cm

This is the size I intend often to work in in Peru in January next year.

 It's not so large that you lose intimacy, or have to increase your working speed.

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Aguas Mornas, trees near a river

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Aguas Mornas, trees near a river, oil on card, 13 x 11.5 cm unavailable

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Aguas Mornas, river

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Aguas Mornas, river, oil on card, 14.5 x 18.5 cm  SOLD

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A drive to the mountains

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 Rancho Queimado- in the mountains, oil on card, 14 x 15 cm

Aguas Mornas- logs, oil on card. 15.5 x 14.5 cm

It's slightly cooler- just about tolerable, therefore- to drive to the mountains and do some work.

 When painting you are very alone. Your're in this arena against the subject and your own worst instincts. You just have your paints and and your thoughts as weapons, and you have to be determined, or very lucky to win. Or sometimes you have to know when it's right to cede defeat and abandon the work. Clarity of mind is everything, and that's why solitude is so essential, as is the right mental state to begin: humility, courage, stoicism...

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Bridge, Aguas Mornas

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Bridge, Aguiuas Mornas, oil on card, 18 x 15.5 cm  - available

Three recent landscapes

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 Landscape to the north of Aguas Mornas, oil on card, 13 x 14 cm

Aguas Mornas, oil on card, 18 x 16 cm    -unavailable

The first is in my neighbourhood; the other one from the continent. 

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It is starting to heat up here and in a month or so it will be quite intolerable. So it`s important to decide what to do about the Summer: most likely I shall try to go to Europe and Morocco. I haven`t travellled anywhere much for ages and I could do with some different scenery to paint.

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Aguas Mornas

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 Aguas Mornas: houses and farms, oil on card, 19 x 16.5 cm  SOLD

Aguas Mornas: trees on a hillside, oil on card, 15.5 x 17.5 cm -  -unavailable

Two from the interior: the last most likely before I begin my trip on Thursday to Bolivia.

The cup is over, and things are returning to normal. Thank goodness.



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Near Aguas Mornas

 Farmstead near Aguas Mornas, oil on card, 16 x 17 cm 

Red rock, oil on card, 11 x 14.5 cm 

 

 

Brilliant sunshine: two painted after a week of artistic abstinence.

 

I must think of an October trip.