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Cheddar (again) and mcarthurs warehouse

8/31/2016

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I love these subjects best.  Cliffs and falling down buildings.

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Trees in Landslip Quarry, Cheddar Gorge. C Lamb. oil. 23 Aug 2016. Last year I did a painting of this from the road verge but this time I am much higher up the quarry. I never go too high up as I get vertigo and it is easy to climb too high then find you can't get back down.
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Mcarthurs Warehouse, Bristol Docks. C Lamb. Oil. 27th Aug 2016. I was delighted to find this had not been turned into fancy flats but had everything I love most- falling down buildings, rusty metal, corrugated iron, street furniture, a bit of greenery and all wrapped up like a Christo.
 McArthurs warehouse in Bristol was the home of  Artspace before they moved round the corner to the redeveloped Brooke Bond tea factory at Spike Island in 1998. When I first came to Bristol I used to go to etching there at Bristol Printmakers with Emma Stibbon and Anna Gillespie ( both now successful artists) and also attended Peter Reddick's woodcut class . While its current appearance is exactly what I love to paint, I am sad it has been let rot further for nearly 20 years.  There are so few original dock buildings left. At least it has not been knocked down, unless this is a ploy to make it so derelict that it has to be demolished for safety.
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Sales success for Charity

8/31/2016

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  As part of the Clifton Arts Club exhibition, members were sent a 20 x 20 cm card in advance to do a work to be sold for charity at the tempting price of £35 and around 90 people responded. I had used my card on an attempt at depicting moonlight at Brisons Veor so although it is not a finished work I sent it in. Someone liked it enough to buy it.  I also snapped up a bargain myself of another Art Club artists work .
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Moonlight over the Brisons, Cape Cornwall . C Lamb. Oil. July 2016. This was my first attempt to capture the moonlight in oil by torchlight and moonlight from the balcony of Brisons Veor . Light was reflecting off clouds and water and the red blob on the horizon is the Longships lighthouse
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Red Barn by Ian Price. Oil . 2016. This is the sketch I bought and have framed up. Ian tells me this is a study of a rhyne (drainage ditch) somewhere between Catcott and Ham Wall on the Somerset levels. He sold his larger version at the Clevedon Art Show.
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Cheddar and black Down

8/30/2016

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PictureHorseshoe Bend, Cheddar Gorge. C Lamb Oil. Aug 2016. I love the way the rocks tower over you.
    



Cheddar Gorge is my favourite scenic spot in Somerset and my plan is eventually to paint every rocky outcrop of this limestone gorge.
   I try and avoid peak holiday times as it gets really crowded but I couldn't resist the chance to paint in nice weather so found a spot in Horseshoe Bend.





Two days later it was still sunny so I went back to the Mendip hills to paint the view from Black Down.   There is a great view across North Somerset towards the Bristol Channel and Wales.  Weston and Worle are on the left and Cardiff is a speck on the other side of the channel. Black Down is the only large area of moorland on the Mendips and at this time of year is purple, green and russet from heather, grass and bracken.  The grey limestone rocks of Burrington Coombe can be seen on the right

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Looking north from Black Down, Somerset. C Lamb. 16th August 2016. Oil. Black Down is the highest hill on the Mendips and there are great views.
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Exhibiting at Clifton arts Club 108th exhibition 5-21 Aug 2016

8/17/2016

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Barleywood Walled Garden, Wrington. C Lamb. Oil 2015. I painted this over 2 days last year. It reminds me of Dutch courtyard scenes and all that is missing is a Pieter de Hooch servant girl.
 As I was away in Scotland I missed the opening of the 108th Annual Clifton Arts Club exhibition, but I have 2 paintings on show : Barleywood Walled garden at Wrington and the first Severn Bridge from Aust Jetty. The Victoria Methodist Church, 1 Whiteladies Road, Bristol is a new venue and large and light. I am doing 2 spots of invigilating and helping with derig.
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All my paintings are done from life and I find a quiet corner where I am not too much in other visitors way. At Barleywood the restaurant is on the left and the loos on the right
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Aust Jetty. Carolyn Lamb 2014 oil. This took 21 hours over 4 visits . I am painting the old Severn Bridge from the rotting former ferry jetty at Aust
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Gardeners Cottage, Inshriach Nursery,  Scotland

8/11/2016

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Inshriach Alpine Nursery, Aviemore. Carolyn Lamb. Aug 2016. Oil . I was able to get 2 days peaceful painting in, although as usual there was not much of that blue sky stuff around.
Revisiting last years holiday cottage at Inshriach Alpine Nursery in the Cairngorms, but 2 months later in the hope of better weather.  It was warmer but not drier.  I had hoped to paint the pond again and also the pond at Inshriach Farm but I'm not quite sure where the week went. I did more smaller things last year but as painting larger pictures just takes me longer, I only did 1 oil this time over 2 days. More delicious cake was eaten in the Potting Shed tearoom.
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Most of this was painted outside but thanks to the green houses there was somewhere to duck inside when it showered.
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Until the peanut feeder ran out I sketched red squirrels , woodpeckers and a pheasant.
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Inshriach pond. I sat with my brolly suspended on the tree branches above for shelter for this quick watercolour, but there is only so much time you can spend holding up a brolly .
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And on the way home briefly visited my mum.
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