Category Archives: Watercolour paintings

Art Surrounds Me

Posted on 29/07/2012 by ronald972

For the last four weekends, we in Cambridgeshire have enjoyed the ‘Open Studio’ programme which kindly allows people such as myself (an art lover) to enter into artists’ studios and look at their work and even watch them at work. … Continue reading →

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Art of Home

Posted on 15/07/2012 by ronald972

Having moved across the ocean from the place where I was born has not always been easy. I do not regret having done so, for I and my family have been greatly blessed but there are things I miss – … Continue reading →

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Art in Myth and Reality

Posted on 08/07/2012 by ronald972

I begin this weeks blog with a piece of work by the Swiss-born artist, Angelica Kauffman, who had a profound career as a neo-classical painter and who was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. The … Continue reading →

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Art in the East

Posted on 28/06/2012 by ronald972

In my art collection I have several small Japanese paintings. In looking at them, I find it amazing how different cultures see and interpret things around them and then portray them. Three of my paintings come from ‘The Matsumoto Studio’. … Continue reading →

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Art in Adventure

Posted on 13/06/2012 by ronald972

When I travel, I like to experience things that I have not done before, go to places I have not been, meet people I don’t know, and taste food I have not eaten before. I have visited quite a number of … Continue reading →

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Oil and Water

Posted on 01/06/2012 by ronald972

Today, I came across two very different pictures. One an oil and the other a watercolour. Both lovely and yet very different in style. The oil painting is by Belgian artist Christian Frederick Beck 1876 – 1954. Beck is better known for … Continue reading →

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Discoveries in Arts

Posted on 13/05/2012 by ronald972

Lately, I have found a new delight in the art which surrounds me day to day.  Much of this art comes from previous centuries but not all. It is art which has caught my eye and is not neccessarily worth … Continue reading →

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