Whizz! A car descending a hill

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Whizz! A car descending a hill, oil on card, 12.5 / 13.8 cm - available

Painted from near where Saturday's painting was made.

A dull, hopeless sort of day.

Overlooking Praia Mole

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Overlooking Praia Mole, oil on card, 12 / 13.5 cm   - available

A windy, sun-filled day, not too many tourists as yet. Painted from the hills above the beach, working quickly, not worrying too much about accuracy.

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Pochade carriers for Italy

A stack of carriers

 Open carrier

Closed

I am slowly preparing for September's trip to Italy, with a new run of carriers. These are deeper and larger than previous carriers. 

They are unpainted. I like the utilitarian brown, which I think contrasts happily with the contents. But, of course that means they are not so well protected against moisture. Perhaps I can varnish them.

This sort of craft work is therapeutic and makes for a pleasant escape from the sort of intellectual work I normally do.

River, Palhoça

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River, Palhoça, oil on card, 11.4 / 14.1 cm  - available

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Tijucas, landscape

Tijucas, landscape, oil on card, 14.7 / 18 cm - unavailable

Hot hazy day, making for uncomfortable driving.

Again, in a larger format.

An Afternoon in the park with the gardener and the psychotherapist, and other paintings from Olinda

An Afternoon in the park with the gardener and the psychotherapist, oil on card, 13 / 14 cm

Convento de São Francisco, Olinda, oil on card, 13.3 / 12 cm unavailable

Trees behind a wall, rain coming, Olinda, oil on card, 11.5 / 9.5 cm  - available

In the park, Olinda, oil on card, 12 / 14 cm  SOLD

Olinda is a very pleasant place, if somewhat touristified.

Something happens to any city when it starts to depend excessively on tourism, which is that it starts to become oddly sterile- places become aestheticised, losing the functions and meanings that created them in the first place.

 But I found it considerably easier to relax into painting there than in Recife, partly simply because it is far safer.

Nine from Recife and Olinda

Hills, Urubici

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Hills, Urubici, oil on card, 9.7 / 7 cm  SOLD

This picture was sold in Edinburgh yesterday at the Union Gallery, Broughton Street.

The Union will be holding a display of my pictures in September.