Southampton Northam summer evening across the Itchen - WIP stages oil painting

Southampton Northam summer evening across the Itchen - WIP stages oil painting

WIP of southampton River Itchen landscape oil painting

This landscape painting features a view in Northam, an area of the east part of the city of Southampton, during a summers evening. It is mainly an industrial area that has been marine based for a number of centuries. The river flowing through the scene is the River Itchen, which goes on to and runs through Winchester, another city a few miles away also based in Hampshire. It is late summer and the tidal river is at low tide revealing the mudflats covers with abandoned boats. In the distance can be seen a small scrap carrying ship, a dry stack for boats, and in the extreme distance is the suburb of Bitterne, with houses going up the hilly landscape.

The painting is created in oils, and the support is primed mounting board, with an image size of 20” x 28”. It was completed during June 2018, and can be seen here.

Eling Yacht Southampton Containers - oil painting

Eling Yacht Southampton Containers - oil painting

Eling Yacht Southampton Containers - 20" x 28" oil painting

This marine based subject painting was done during September 2017, and shows a scene at Eling, on the outskirts of Totton, itself on the outskirts of Southampton, Hampshire. The area was one a small port and home to industries, and is now slowly being regenerated. The river is known as the River Barley, and flows in to the River Test, which is where the large container port of Southampton can be found. In this scene we find various boats and yachts laid up on mud as the river is tidal. Dominating in the background are old shipping containers awaiting reuse for other uses from shipping, or scrapping, but it is understood that these will be removed as part of the regeneration of the area.

The painting itself is done in oils on mounting board. It is sized at 20” x 28” approx.

The painting can be seen in detail here.

Warsash Coastline With Tide Out Hampshire - acrylic painting

Warsash Coastline With Tide Out Hampshire - acrylic painting

Warsash Coastline With Tide Out Hampshire - acrylic painting

In this landscape painting, a scene is depicted of the coastline at Warsash, near to Southampton in the county of Hampshire. Southampton Water is the main stretch of water which runs in to the Solent, and at this location painted the River Hamble joins in the Southampton Water. The area has a small path used by cyclists and walkers along the coast, some of whom can be seen in the distance, on this overcast summers day.
The painting is done on stretched paper, sized at 12” x 16”, and painted in acrylics, during July 2017.
This landscape painting can be seen in greater detail here.

Warsash Coastline With Tide Out Hampshire WIP stages

Warsash Coastline With Tide Out Hampshire WIP stages

Warsash Coastline With Tide Out Hampshire - WIP stages

This composite image show four stages of the painting 'Warsash Coastline With Tide Out Hampshire' which was completed over a few days in July 2017. The first panel shows the drawing, done with brown acrylic paint on a brown wash. The second panel now shows the the base or 'underpainting' applied to the scene. In the third panel can be seen the final colours and detail start to be added with the final, fourth panel showing the completed painting, which is all done in acrylics on stretch paper measuring 12" x 16". 
The location is Warsash, a small village on the mouth of the River Hamble in Hampshire. A cycle path is shown in use by a cyclist and some walkers as they enjoy the view on a cloudy, summers day, while the tide is out.
The finished painting can be seen in detail here.

River Test at Totton, Southampton WIP

River Test at Totton, Southampton WIP

This painting was completed in February 2016. It is of a scene at Totton, Hampshire, on the outskirts of Southampton where the River Test flows in to Southampton Port. The view is pointing west with Totton town just visible on the left. The main bridge is the railway line between Southampton and Bournemouth. The photograph here shows the painting in three stages. The first panel is the line drawing in brown acrylic paint on a red ground. The second panel show a half way stage with many areas blocked in with an acrylic base or under-painting, slightly darker than the intended finished layer. The third panel shows the completed work.

WIP acrylic painting of River Test at Totton

Boats on Riverside Park Bank

Boats on Riverside Park Bank

This painting was created in November 2015. It shows a summer evening waterfront scene on the river bank at Riverside park, Southampton. The river flowing through the scene is the River Itchen. At this location on the suburbs of Southampton are a number of properties with gardens backing on to the river. On the river itself are a number of boats resting on the mud as the tide is out.
The painting is done on heavy paper using acrylic painting. It is 16" x 12" in size.

Boats on Riverside Park bank

Bitterne Boats Southampton

Bitterne Boats Southampton

Bitterne Boats Southampton acrylic painting

This painting shows a view of a number of boats, some of them wrecks, on the River Itchen in Southampton, Hampshire. It is based on a number of photographs taken from Northam Bridge and looking toward the hilly suburb of Bitterne. The time is a summer evening with calm waters and the tide going out from this tidal estuary section of the river, revealing a land of mud and algae, and long lost sunken boats. The late evening light gives the scene a slight golden glow.

The painting is done in acrylics on a canvas board measuring 20” x 16”, and was painted in autumn 2014.

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Pink Pig Portrait

Pink Pig Portrait

This portrait of a pink pig was painted in September 2014 in oils on an acrylic base, on a 12” x 10” board. The pig was one of a number to be found at Hillier gardens, Romsey in Hampshire and was in a cordoned off area of the woodland. They were there to help clear old vegetation.

 

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Pink Pig Portrait – oil painting

Northam boat yards and old boats

Northam boat yards and old boats

 

This painting shows the industrial area by the River Itchen at Northam, Southampton, as viewed from the Bittern side. Various boat yards can be seen on the left and on the right are cranes that work at the scrapyard, used for loading scrap metal on to a ship at least once a week. The tide is out and this reveals a carpet of green algae across the mudflats, inter-cut with small streams ow water running through it. A famous feature of the river is the large amount of old boat wrecks dotted around, a number exposed at low tide.

The painting is painted in acrylics over a few days, on a board measuring 16” x 20”, during April 2014. 

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Northam boat yards and old boats-acrylic painting

River Hamble Lagoon Hampshire

River Hamble Lagoon Hampshire

 

This painting shows a lagoon running parallel along the River Hamble (out of scene), in Hampshire, near to the City of Southampton. The river was at low tide so revealing a large expanse of mudflats in the area with lagoons interruption the landscape The artist was struck by the prettiness of the scene with the brown wet mud and foliage contrasting with the bright blue of the sky reflecting in the water.

This painting was created in April 2014 in an afternoon, using oils on a canvas board measuring 10” x 12.

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Lagoon, River Hamble, Hampshire

Single Boat on Eling Mudflats

Single Boat on Eling Mudflats

This painting was created in April 2014, and is executed in oils on a canvas panel, sized at 10” x 12”. It shows a number of yachts and boats resting on the mudflats at Eling Mill, hampshire. The composition concentrates on one boat and its reflection in the water. This reflection in the water drew me to the setting as did the red buoy, complementing the blue of the boat and sky.

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Single Boat on Eling Mudflats-oil painting

Two boats on Eling Mudflats

Two boats on Eling Mudflats-acrylic painting

This painting features two boats resting on the mudflats at Eling, near to the old mill, in the county of Hampshire. It is based on a photograph that had three boats in it, but I removed one to make a clearer composition, with just two boats beside the river bank, and added more mud and foliage to the right. The painting was done in April 2014 and is painted in acrylics on a board sized at 10” x 12”.

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Two boats on Eling Mudflats-acrylic painting