‘Study of a Hanging Pheasant and Cartridge Bag’
Oil on canvas 24″ x 20″ x 60.96cm x 50.8
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Oil on Canvas 24 x 20 in
A pencil drawing of the Gladstone pottery which was owned by the Shelley family after it lay in dereliction.
First opened by the Shelley family in 1787, a pottery factory producing earthenware and out sourcing plates and dishes made by Josiah Wedgewood of Etruria, Stoke On Trent. The pottery closed in 1970 and was saved from demolition some ten years after it last fired its bottle ovens and finally opened as a working museum in 1974, in the 1990s ownership passed to Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
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‘Mallard’, the world’s fastest steam engine passing through York Station. Brought out of mothballs and seen in 1988 when it took part in commemorations. Designed by Nigel Gresley , this loco holds the record for speed, on 3 July 1938, the A4 class locomotive Mallard raced down Stoke Bank at 126 mph to set a new steam locomotive world speed record, that still stands today.
Oil on canvas 20 x 30 in
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This is drawing number five of derelict listed Bottle Ovens where over 20,000 people lost their jobs.
Johnson Brothers pottery was one of the most successful Staffordshire potteries, importing many of their tableware products across the pond to the United States, doing so successfully for seven decades from the 1890s to the 1960s with the loss of 1000 jobs They finally ceased trading in 2003 and production was moved overseas to China and finally ceased in 2015.
The factory was demolished in 2004 and the two remaining Bottle Ovens where listed in 1987. Yet another sad demise of the Pottery Industry of Stoke On Trent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Brothers#Origins_(1883%E2%80%931888)
Pencil on card.
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A past painting I did for one of the Beaters that used to work on the shoot behind my gallery in North Staffordshire. A Signed Limited Edition Print of this painting is available on request.
Oil on canvas 24″ x 36″
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A further bottle oven saved and listed by the City Council and included in the Drawings Page https://wp.me/P2Ijh6-1O1 in the demise of the pottery industry.
Originally built in 1880 for the Smithfield Pottery manufacturers and decorators and taken over by Robert Sherwin Ltd. Robert Sherwin was a manufacturer of brushes mainly for the pottery industry and finally closed it’s doors after 50 years of business at the beginning of 1984. The site was purchased by the local authority and is now a Grade II listed building and is the only one of it’s kind to have survived in the Potteries.
I was commissioned to paint the original, https://wp.me/p2Ijh6-ui along with another still life painting, https://wp.me/p2Ijh6-DW by a client who appeared one day at the gallery. I liked the out come of the original so much, because of the varied challenging subject matter, the waxy look of the outdoor coat, the shotgun resting against the country chair, the brace of pheasants, along with the old cooking range set in a back scullery I decided to have a small number published. Should you like to take up this offer then fill out the form below and I will get back to you. There will be a reduction in the price if you would prefer to have it mounted and framed.
Classic Day Out’ isΒ a water colour of Alan Davis, in his cherished MGB Roadster leaving Lewtrenchard Manor. Alan’s daughter, Catherine, commissioned me to do this painting. Alan now retired, has been in the motoring trade for 47 years, 30 of which were at the helm of his own business. He has completed many restorationsΒ of old MG’s and has been a member of the MG Club for over 40 years. Although I have never met Alan, through this painting I feel that I have got to know him partially. Alan used Lewtrenchard Manor the backdrop to the painting, forΒ business events as well as personal occasions, theΒ occasion this time, as the number plate say’s his 70th birthday. What a surprise.
‘Classic Day Out’
Watercolour
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If you get the chance, pay a visit to the Alhambra, a beautiful palace set in the hills in Granada Spain. The Alhambra was a real walled city, built by the Nasrid Kings in the last period of Muslim rule in Spain.
You could spend a lifetime painting scenes of the many entrances and secluded courtyards set within the palace, as well as unending views and sections set within the palace walls.
I was struck by this view of the Lindaraja Courtyard depicted in the painting and, this courtyard alone could have made me work for at least a dozen or more paintings.
‘Lindaraja Courtyard’ Alhambra. Granada. Spain
Oil on panel 10 x 8 ins
Commissioned Painting
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