Category Archives: Sicily
Churches in the Landscape
It is no real surprise that Churches offer the painter a great subject, often as the focal point of a painting.
Looking through some of my watercolours of the past few years there are many with Churches featured in them. The beautiful architecture of Churches and their often prominent locations provides an exciting subject for me in many paintings.
Some of these are painted as they may have been in the past, to help illustrate family history events , whilst others just bring the subject together in a pleasing way (to me anyway!).
I have gathered together in this large post some from my archives of painting from various locations around Europe.
I hope you enjoy seeing them, I am sure many will have visited them on their own holidays.
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- Saint Peter’s Basilica, in Rome.
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- La Chapelle des Penitents-Noir in Menton, Cote d’Azur
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- Notre Dame Church in Mons, Provence.
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- Poppies surrounding St Margaret’s Church, Barming
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- Detling Church in Kent. As it was in 1809.
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- St Margaret’s, Barming, Kent in Winter
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- Eglise Saint Jean Baptiste rises over Fayence in Provence
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- The Church of St Thomas’ a Becket at Fairfield, Romney Marsh.
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- Minster Abbey,Isle of Sheppey in Kent. In the winter of 1911.
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- The Domes of St Basilio on San Remo, Italy
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- La Collegiate Church of Saint Paul de Vence in The Cote D’Azur
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- The 12th century Notre Dame Church in Moustiers St Marie, in Provence
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- Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.
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- St Anne’s Church in Belfast. As it was in 1869. St Anne’s Cathedral now occupies this site.
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- San Georgio Church in Venice
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- St Mary and All Saints Church, Kent
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- Church towers in Oia, Santorini
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- Santuario della Madonna della Rocca in Castelmola, Sicily
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- Notre Dame Church in Moustiers St Marie, in Provence
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- The Abbey, Saint Tropez in Provence
Watercolours of Boats
It has always been fun to paint pictures with boats in them. I have blogged some of these before but here are some new ones painted during this summer as well.
Sadly the fishing boat on Littlestone beach was burned out and destroyed in 2009 , it was a lovely fishing boat.
I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did in painting them.
Happy travels!
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- Wrecked boat on Bunbeg sands,Donegal
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- Fishing boat in Sardinia
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- Barges racing in the Thames Estuary
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- Cefalu in Sicily
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- The harbour at St Tropez.
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- Gondolas in Venice
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- The harbour at Cannes
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- Boats on the beach at Monte Cofano, Sicily
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- Fishing boat at Littlestone beach
Sicily May 2012
Well here I am in beautiful Sicily for a few days enjoying the late spring sunshine
Staying at Taormina we have been travelling around some fairly local places and it has given me the chance to paint a few quick watercolours of this beautiful coast line round Mount Etna.
These will serve as a reminder , together with the photos for some better painting once home.
More to come I hope but here are some painted over the past few days
Not only is the scenery great but the very friendly people serve up great food and terrific local wine!
I hope they either encourage you to visit there or relive happy memories.
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- Taormina
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- Boats near Taormina
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- The Church at Castelmola
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- Mount Etna and the coast from Taormina
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- Cefalu, Sicily from the West
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- Cefalu, Sicily
