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Japanese Interlude
Posted on April 13, 2014 by Louis This week while sketching these Scots pines in the woods, I was reminded of my student days in Japan...
Alps in the Snow
Below are a few landscapes I painted in the alps after my recent Geneva exhibition. The main trick to painting outdoors successfully in...
Landscape composition
One of the aspects of learning to paint I found frustratingly slow to grasp was how to compose a landscape. I eventually came across...
Scotland
I spent a few days in Scotland recently which felt like a home-coming (I lived in Edinburgh for a year or so in the early ’90s). Unlike...
A Quiet Place for Landscape Painting
My landscape teacher, Marc Dalessio, a very good artist who had an unfailing eye for my mistakes, gave me a good tip which I pass on: if...
Painting in and around Geneva
In August, I spent some time near Geneva and managed to get a bit of work done around the lake and in Geneva itself. Here are a few of my...
Jamaican Paintings
Below are a few of my paintings from my time in Jamaica last month. I was staying near Round Hill, a beautiful resort on the north coast....
Painting in Sweden
Last week I had the use of a house in Tällberg on Lake Siljan in the Dalarna region of Sweden. As it is midsummer, the days are very long...
Tintin and the art of landscape painting
On my seventh birthday my father gave me my first Tintin book – L’ile Noire (The Black Island) which enthralled me, partly because most...
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