"JUST CHUGGING ALONG"
This Legendary Art
is, possibly, maybe, kind of, ish, a dredger.
We walked for miles that day. The weather was not wonderful but at
least it was not raining. So - we took the opportunity to walk though
the City of London and across The River to the Hays Galleria which I
have talked about before. Shops and eateries and coffee houses within a
high-roofed semi-enclosed area. Very romantic. And there is a stall
full of paintings of London done by what would be called "a local
artist" - how local we couldn't tell. Shops and stalls and comfort and
good things. Here we sat and watched life on the river, and two small boats
passed by. We thought one of them to be a dredger but could not be sure
as it was missing a vital ice of aperatus! Peter felt that here was a
painting worth doing and it now hangs in the studio rendered in soothing
pinky-browns and greys. A lovely bit of watercolouring.Peter
when he saw the boats and "possible" dredger felt a nostalgia
for the many different epochs of his relationship with the Thames,
ranging from when his parents took him on pleasure trips on the river
and his teenage years when he visited the then brand new Haywood Gallery to
the half-decade spent at Saint Martin's School of Art (now Central
Saint Martins) drawing around there. And again to the years we spent (bliss)
wandering there as sweethearts. And, most importantly, in recent times
when we decided we'd create a book of "Paintings of London", in
all its esoteric beauty. Painted
"en plein air" in watercolour on cotton rag, it evokes the mood and bustling activity
on the river and we show it to you here as part of our URBAN LEGENDS
portfolio.
See it in this
Collector's Edition book
