Bartholomew Room, Eynsham

Bartholomew Room, Eynsham

Bartholomew Room, Eynsham

watercolour paintand ink on paper

15. x 20. cm

Lorna Marrison

A painting of a scene from last autumn of the centre of my village. There is only few minutes' when the sun sets' that the light rakes through the gaps in the houses to show this drama. The cotswold stone glows against the deepening shadows where colour unseen in the day flashes momentarily. I think this would make a good picture in oil paint.

The original painting and prints will be availiable during Oxford Artweeks in May.

Post Cards from Home

Post Box, Bartholomew Rooms 

Bathed in Winter Sun

This is the postbox behind the Bartholomew Rooms. Here it glows in the little sun to reach it in this shaded area. I painted the canvas with acrylic gold following on from my success with St Leonard's House using this technique. I am still painting on the small 10.8 x 12.0 cms coarse canvas which does not allow for much detail.

Post Box behind Bartholomew Rooms

I improved this sketch in Photoshop by making more contrast between the darks and lights. I find it difficult to get this contrast when sketching with pencil. It is interesting to see that the tonal difference between the red of the box and the warm honey of the stone behind is very close.

Phone Box behind the Bartholomew Rooms.

The telephone like the postbox acts as counterpoint to the doors when viewed en mass. Painted over a green canvas as an experiment with complementary colours. Not reached any conclusions yet about it.

'Bartholomew Rooms'-finished

I painted the background with acrylic gold. This influenced how I treated this picture from leaving the colour showing with minimum over painting to scratching through to retrieve the gold. This happened when drawing the features of G and M. I could not get the suggestion of their features with paint as all got were blobs at that scale. I started to clean back the failed attempt discovered that scratching through to the under painting work very well.
The result is reminiscent of a religious icon.

Progress ongoing!

I will need to wait a week before all these are dry enough to paint on again. Every painting I do I try to be better then the previous one. There is no magic moment of ... trumpets blowing ... of "I done it" but only the graft of "next one better".

'Bartholomew Rooms'

I painted this canvas with acrylic gold because the open doors remind me of a medieval icon. It is also the same colour as the oak doors.