I enjoyed searching through the images last time, which Christine Sheppard kindly shared with me, so let's do it again. This time I'm concentrating on landscape watercolours.
The first few, I suspect, are in France as Sheppard visited there and drew parts of Ardèche. If anyone recognises the places from these images, please do let me know.
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| Rocky outcrop with strong wind and men (ochre colours) |
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| Rocky outcrops with village in valley (ink and wash) |
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| Rocky outcrops with buildings (dark wash) |
The next batch are very English, in my opinion, showing fields with boundaries of fence posts and/or barbed wire plus some trees and a clearing. I love Sheppard's use of colour perspective - showing lighter colours at the back of the paintings. Living on the edge of the Fens I notice the hills in these images!
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| Field with barbed wire |
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| Field with fence posts |
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| Trees and clearing |
Then we have some more countryside scenes including what might be the woodland near to where he lived, Stanmore Common (another named place in other artwork).
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| A lane leading to cliffs |
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| Church tower in a rural setting |
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| Misty woodland |
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| A house in a woodland |
Notice in the church scene above he has gone to the trouble of showing us the church yet covered it with the branches of a young sapling! But the woodland scenes really convey that soft light, dappled through the canopy. Gorgeous work.
Finally, for now, three studies that show a variety of methods. The first a watercolour wash; the second a snow scene and lastly a study in orang - perhaps a sunset?
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| A park scene - but where? |
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| An English snow scene called "Sunlit Distance, 1947" |
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| Trees and lane - in orange |
