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Painting Lindisfarne (Part 1)
https://youtu.be/rQVjUr265y0 The beginnings of a large (6' x 4') mixed media on canvas of Holy IslandJanuary 13, 2020 -
Vistas of Longing
The DVD of the film David made with German production company Gebrueder Beetz about JMW Turner arrived from Hamburg this morning. The film follows David as he travels to Norham castle on…
October 4, 2018 -
Scarborough Light (In The Footsteps of Turner)
David has painted the harbour in the light of an October afternoon from the high vantage point of the castle. Turner painted Scarborough several times in the early 19th C; perhaps the most ‘finished’…
October 7, 2017 -
West Tanfield (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘River Ure, West Tanfield & a Trout Rises’, oil on canvas 100cm x 100cm Joseph Mallord William Turner RA visited Yorkshire many times during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. On one…
September 15, 2017 -
Rainy Kirkgate (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Rainy Kirkgate’, ink on sketchbook page. This is the opposite view to that painted by Turner in 1797, so here the cathedral is behind us and we are looking towards the market…
September 14, 2017 -
Turner’s House
Here’s a link to an interesting Guardian article on the restoration of Sandycombe Lodge, Turner’s house in Twickenham.
September 14, 2017 -
In Production
The television film ‘Vistas of Longing, Painters and Their landscapes’ is now in production; German/French release date is provisionally sometime around January 2018 and a wider release some months after that. More information…
September 14, 2017 -
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‘Fountains Autumn’ (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Fountains Autumn’, mixed media on collage 42cm x 42cm One of the glories of a visit to Yorkshire is Fountains Abbey, one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England…
September 8, 2017
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