Photos from a forest, part one

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Photographs taken in the forest at Rio Vermelho.

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Double carrier

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This is the new style double carrier which I shall use for Peru, in an attempt to reduce the space taken up by pochades in my luggage. Hopefully, the paintings do not touch, even if the luggage is chucked about by baggage handling staff at the airports.

 But..."We shall see"...said Big Max.*



* a line which comes from Big Max by Kin Platt.

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Dunes

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Dunes- May 2016, oil on card, 14 x 11.5 cm

 Dunes 2- May 2015, oil on card, 15.5 x 12 cm  SOLD

 A fine day painting on the dunes. I felt there as if I were in an Antonioni film. It`s a beautiful place to work, the landscape  both subtly coloured but with dramatic shapes.

Exactly two weeks until Peru- crossing off the days.

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Moçambique, woodland and fields

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 Praia Moçambique, woodland, oil on card, 12.5 x 12.5 cm   - available

Praia Moçambique, fields, oil on card, 12.5 x 14 cm  available

Two pochades painted on a productive day in the woods at Praia Moçambique.

It's the first time I've managed to do good work of the woods at Moçambique. The woods have a restful quality and I love to work in them. But after previous sessions I'd had to destroy what I'd painted. I'd been under under the spell of other painters and couldn't locate my own emotional responses, I 'd seen Munchs and Klimts everywhere, and had become inarticulate, and the work was stale.

This time I seemed not to give too much of a damn. I felt free: the pictures came.

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Saco de Lama

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SAco de Lama, oil on card, 10 x 16 cm

A slummy area on the continent near the bridge- it has always interested me.

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Above Canasvieras

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Above Canasvieras, oil on card, 11.5 x 14 cm

 Above Canasvieras, oil on card, 10.5 x 14 cm

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Painting near Ingleses

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Landscape with distant houses, Ingleses, 11 x 13.5 cm, oil on card  - available

Sunny houses at a corner, Ingleses, oil on card, 10.5 x 13 cm  - available

Houses at a bend, Ingleses, oil on card, 12 x 14.7 cm  SOLD

View near Ingleses, oil on card 12.5 x 10.5 cm

These were painted from the old road just to the south of SC-403.

They`re all small. With this format and style, which involves very few layers of paint, the paintings are rapidly finished. It`s like  shooting a musket.  a match. You get  just one chance to hit your target.

Winter is beautiful for painting here. You get side light and spacial depth is enhanced.

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