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Victoria Arms Pub by flooded meadows, Marston, Oxford, Watercolour Painting
This is a watercolour painting, 30 X 22 inch, on 300 gsm watercolour paper with a border at the edge. Signed original artwork by Daniel Blackmore.
Not for sale
Oxford Martin School at dawn, Watercolour Painting
This is a watercolour painting, 24 X 18 inch, on 300 gsm watercolour paper with a border at the edge. Signed original artwork by Daniel Blackmore.
£150.00
UK Delivery £10
International Delivery £20
Magdalene in the misty morning, Acrylic Painting
Early in the morning the tower of Magdalene college stands grey and sombre in the mist with the pink sky in the background. The meadow cottages by Deadman’s walk are still and waiting. The mist will soon dissipate and people will be going about their business as the sun rises higher in the sky.
This is an acrylic painting, 20 X 16 inch, on canvas board without a border at the edge. Signed original artwork by Daniel Blackmore.
£150.00
UK Delivery £10
International Delivery £20
Spires of gold at the setting sun, Watercolour Painting
“To whom will the city belong, those spires of gold at the setting sun,
When all is bought and rented and by the oligarch’s wallet won?
What lowly local or aspiring squire, hot with journey from the shire,
Can cast their gaze on the city fair and for belonging have no ire,
When old Oxford is all bequeathed to none but the moneyed ones?”
This is a watercolour painting, 24 X 18 inch, on 300 gsm watercolour paper without a border at the edge. Signed original artwork by Daniel Blackmore.
£150.00
UK Delivery £10
International Delivery £20
Ephesus, city of the goatherd, Watercolour Painting
“The wind blows through the library of the wise,
The trees the only merchants of the empty Agora,
A caw and a bleat ring out in the Odeon,
And the goatherd’s eye is full of patient wonder.”
I went to Ephesus and this painting is my interpretation of that city, left in ruins, empty of life apart from the strange homage paid by the tourists on pilgrimage to witness the sad but glorious testimony to ruined glory, the rubble of power and empire, broken yet magnificent in its stubborn will to keep its name and fame alive through millennia.
The hills live on to witness the sinking of the great city into the contours of the land. Before the first stones were laid trees, who knows how ancient, were cut down. Now they return to reclaim their habitat, ultimate victors playing a patient strategy to outlast the vanity of man.
This scene cannot be found anywhere at the site. I have put different elements together to evoke the feeling of the place for me.
The painting was made with many washes of watercolour overlaid to gradually build up the colouring of the sky and land. I used very light washes to allow for a strong sense of light, the dimming of the sky, and a feeling of nostalgia and melancholy over the passing of something great, still great but mostly for the implication of the former glory it held.
This is a watercolour painting, 20 X 14 inch, on 300 gsm watercolour paper with a border at the edge. Signed original artwork by Daniel Blackmore.
£150.00
UK Delivery £10
International Delivery £20