My wife and I were staying at the Watersmeet Hotel in North Devon and early in the morning walked along the coast path; this is a painting of that view!
BARRICANE BEACH
Category Beaches.
THE BOARDWALK TO CROW POINT
A painting using the local Bideford Black pigment. This painting is of the old boardwalk which lead to Crow Point in North Devon.
CLOVELLY HARBOUR
A print from a sketch I completed many years ago on a visit to a local village called Clovelly. This came to mind on a recent trip with my wife and after found some prints in one of my print drawers. Below is the sketch made on a lovely sunny day with the Red Lion Hotel in all it’s glory and above a hand washed water colour rendering!
LEE ABBEY BEACH
A painting of the wonderful beach bellow Lee Abbey in North Devon, 24 x 18″ canvas. We spent the day here in this quiet cove in the warm spring sunshine. It have a beautiful waterfall cascading as you enter the beach and the views out along the North Devon Coast are stunning. After we had a cream tea at the Abbey Tearooms!
I’m also so pleased to have this painting chosen as a temporary header for the West Country Artists page shown below!
ALMOST SPRING AT CROW POINT
First paint on canvas since October 2023, so I’m not really expecting too much at the moment but am enjoying sitting infront of the easel again. It may well take a little while to get back up to speed so we’ll see where this one goes! Acrylic on 24 x 18″ canvas.
This was a picture taken on a chilly cycle ride around the Burrows and Crow Point. In the distance is a large storm front coming in and I decided to make a dash for home. I should have stopped for a coffee at The Quay Cafe in Braunton but decided to continue onward on the Tarka Trail back to Barnstaple. As I reached Chivenor Marine Base I was caught in a massive storm with side blown hail stones, I didn’t warm up the entire day after this! Al
CROW POINT
This twenty one year old painting was hung in my old kitchen so after the kitchen was renovated this painting and its frame were cleaned and a few corrective touches made; better than before!
Through the gap in the dunes you used to be able to see this wreck of the old Sea Mack now sadly almost gone!
LEE BAY
A picture inspired by the North Devon coast and Lee Bay. Acrylic on canvas 24 x 18″. It is such a wonderful beach to explore when the tide is out, many caves and little inlets around with wonderful views out along the tall cliffs of North Devon.
FISHERMAN’S COTTAGE
A composition of the famous fisherman’s hut in Mullion Harbour, Cornwall. Whilst walking on the cliffs here I often see Choughs flying amongst the grass so I’ve decided to add some to the stormy sky. Through out I’ve struggled with the surface of this panel as I’d applied a smooth coat of gesso which surface seems to produce a more graphic look to my brushstrokes. In comparison, I find fine canvas to be a more subtle surface for colour blending and shading, with that said I find the final picture is somewhat appealing to my eye! Acrylic on gesso panel 380 x 380mm.
BLACKPOOL MILL BEACH
I’ve just discovered this painting from a while ago! It is of a rock pool at Blackpool Mill Beach in North Devon. This beach is at the end of an enjoyable woodland walk from the famous Hartland Abbey. Just before the beach is a wonderful old building set in grassy grounds called Blackpool Mill Cottage which featured in the BBC production of Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’, as the cottage in Rosamund Pilcher’s ‘The Shell Seekers’, and in 2016, the location for The Lanyon in BBC’s ‘The Night Manager’ starring Tom Hiddleston.
I particularly like the pebble beach here, it’s rock pools and picking up spectacular pieces of driftwood left behind by the Atlantic storms.
THE CORNISH COAST
Just a little look back at some of my recent paintings of Cornwall. Above is Mullion Cove a favourite place of my wife and I. Below are paintings of Kynance Cove, Lands End, Morwenstow, Bedruthen Steps and my recent painting of the Logan Rock. There is just something about the light here and many more visits are planned.
Al Brown Artist. 