Category Archives: shaped canvas

pictures from an exhibition…

but not Mussorgski..  

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it’s not a little demitasse

A few years ago on a rainy afternoon, I build a form and gessoed and finished with inks a still life of a demitasse.  I titled it “Its not a little demitasse”:

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Camelias in the garden

We put espaliered Camelias along the fence on guide wires at a previous house.  I took an element of  the Camelias on the wire and worked it up on the shaped canvas, using it as a field. Why do I … Continue reading

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Venice and high water

I did some watercolours in Venice on the same trip to Italy, which I later used to build and paint a screen with one side looking across the Grand Canal at the palazzos opposite Santa Maria Della Salute and the … Continue reading

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