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Artist in a big grey village along the Tamar Valley. ThingDave, 2grow'd kids, 2dogs, tired eyes and eternal optimism. With Marine House At Beer Gallery, Devon.

Gunnislake, Cornwall
Joined April 2011
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That's what it's all about Watch "Interview At Lost Meadow" on YouTube
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Middle Dimson: where the ducks roam free and the trees grow extraordinarily tall .... off to the framers today
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The Gentleman Caller
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Percy's Chair The chair's 13 years gone, the boot too and Percy's been gone over 25 years but I still miss him. Dogs! So many gone on ahead but I hope they come back to collect us, bright eyes shining in reunion, tails slapping on the bedstead, as we depart for the green fields
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'Great Basset' : No1 in a series Only The Wanderer : images of those who walk endlessly through imagined places
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Menadue ( searching to create the atmosphere of the timeless place at one moment in that time)
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Not wishing Winter away but looking forwards to Summer days.
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The Birds And The Bees New work for Spring ๐Ÿ
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Mrs Randall's Goats.. Village life eh? The devil's in the detail
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Summer Morning, Penhallow : Sunshine and the smell of warm poultry...
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All is quiet in the fading heat of the day save the self-soothing murmuring of doves in warm oaks, the distant burr of a tractor, and an old dog in the yard, happily barking his wild and empty threats at the indifferent local rabbits .
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"All night under the moon Plovers are flying Over the dreaming meadows of silvery light, Over the meadows of June Calling and crying, Wandering voices of love in the hush of the night..." Wilfred Gibson Painting :'Plovers At Ladley'
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The Keeper : new work for nearly Spring ! ๐Ÿ’š
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Autumn..
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New work for Spring: 'Two Miles From The Sea' ๐Ÿ‹ ๐ŸŒณ
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Long ago and far away
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The Promise In the lea of the hill, by the light of the moon
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"Five Lanes" One of 20 new and exciting Giclee prints available very shortly from A glimpse of the countryside before the tories fuck it all up
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The Black Prince โ™ฃ๏ธ
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Love of land: green as the fields he played in, tall as the copses he loved in, long as his summer days toil, brief as the autumn ache-limbed rainsheltered in his barn, dark as the winter he died and deep as the worms who sang him sweetly home. Gone To Earth. Prints available !
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'Larkswood' My solo exhibition of 32 new and original paintings starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. Marine House at Beer ,Devon ....see them all here
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Make haste, Len, get the kettle on, she's home ... Off The Bus, now available as part of a postcard set of 6 Marchy images from Henry at Rather Good Art ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Off The Bus: No 1 in a series of 'Cottage Economies' Make haste, Len, get the kettle on, she's home ...
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Love's Old Sweet Song
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Work in Progress 'Off The Bus' Quick, Len, Mary's home.. Get that kettle on....
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Heart of the valley A Home, warm and furled, Surrounded by Wild And far from the World.
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Whimple Farm The moon winks through a gap in the curtains. The fire in the grate crackles and pops, punctuate by the hoot and holler of owls and foxes without, who all night long remind you, by the bright hearth, that you're never really alone the further you get from other folk.
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Owl At North Tor. Goodnight all ๐ŸŒ™
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As workworn, he's returning Where a welcome light's burning And a song drifts to meet him through the open front door, His dogs race to greet him With their love they complete him, At his little grey home on the Moor.
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Love of land: green as the fields he played in, tall as the copses he loved in, long as his summer days toil, brief as the autumn ache-limbed rainsheltered in his barn, dark as the winter he died and deep as the worms who sang him sweetly home. Gone To Earth.
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Well my little dears I only knows a little bit from Enid in the shop She says he drives the library van and he's known for his shallots Well her's gone mazed on picklin' or somesuch bleddy tripe And he's been seen 'deliverin' books' in the middle of the night! Telling The Bees
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Honest, I will, I will, I'll start havin a bath every Sunday ..'cept in May. (Wash blankets in May, wash someone away) The Promise
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Oh to be, oh to be In a sunny little cottage by the sea .... Cottage By The Sea (of course ๐Ÿ˜‰)
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An hour over the lovely land, sun on the back of your neck and your feet treading the grasses, earth and small stones. Above and around you, the cry of gulls and the bleating of sheep who gaze amongst the glare of summer green, and then suddenly there you are at the ocean's edge.
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A World Away Simplicity and peace so rare, With this the World cannot compare.
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Out of the way of the World
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Wishing You the Shelter of Wings. Here's to joy in simple things. Happy New Year ๐Ÿ’š
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Black Dog
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The Long Way Home
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Oh! Don't the women love an afternoon bonfire
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All night under the moon... Sleepers part 2
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"Venton" Teetering,tumbling Hills now available as a Giclee Print from my website ...www.jomarchart.com
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Attend him, jackdaw, blackbird, crow, This strange old farmer here below Singing, thinks his sky holds friends, And in this to his duty bends. Tis his Charity within his fields, To happily share what Nature's yields. Calling The Birds
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No 3 in a series 'Only The Wanderer' : The Adventurers. 'And did she care where she was heading, Beneath the night's bright benison, No, not a jot, 'I'm told I'm treading The primrose path', laughed Alyson '
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Birds, high above, cast shadows O'er the village on the hill On that bright Summer morning As if time itself stood still
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Bathsheba in the moonlight watery, A woman no better than she oughta be. Indolent in lunar pleasure Awaits her lover at her leisure.
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Love of land: green as the fields he played in, tall as the copses he loved in, long as his summer days toil, brief as the autumn ache-limbed rainsheltered in his barn, dark as the winter he died and deep as the worms who sang him sweetly home. Gone To Earth. Prints available.
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Trevellen Improbable but that's always the point
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Last week of the show Distant Hills at Marine House At Beer. 30 paintings including this rosy nocturne Night Birds At Stanbear Here we are at Autumn equinox How quickly do those foxgloved eves pass!
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...When I get to my own country I shall lie down and sleep; I shall watch in the valleys The long flocks of sheep. And then I shall dream, for ever and all, A good dream and deep. Hilaire Belloc Evening Sun, The Coombe
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Had birds on the brain today.. here's an old one.. Curlew At Batten
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Path Through The Woods
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Owl at North Tor, nearly done and shortly heading for @MarineHouseBeer ๐Ÿฅณ
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Love's Old Sweet Song
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Sevenstones. A tractor like my daddy had.. New work for Autumn, Marine House At Beer and Singapore Affordable Art Fair.
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Hazy June, memories of summer for the winter show at Limekiln Gallery, Calstock
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The Wife Her days ever running and rolling like the summer clouds over the farm...
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And On Returning
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Good night all ๐ŸŒ› Fields Of Dreams, one of 29 new paintings for my September solo show 'Distant Hills' at Marine House At Beer . Now there's peaceful..
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Bathsheba: he with his dogs and gun, her with her beauty and her endless moonbathing, a soldier's leave cut short by a jealous king who'd steal his treasure. Blues in the night.
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Last Orders...and goodnight!
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Rooms of lemon yellow light. And across those long walls, the shadow birds in flight and leaves that sway in gentle motion. Along the path, the waxy scent of laurel flowers in warm morning sun. This place he whistling walks out from and gladly comes home to. House In The Fields
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Terriers Towser and Jack, Each dog has the other ones back, With the hens they are gentle, With the sheep sentimental But they'll not cut a rambler much slack.. Two Dogs, Branstowe
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Evening In The Valley Late birds, warm earth, the cob of the cottage walls still blushing pink with the sun's goodnight kiss.
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Shelling Peas.. well, they won't shell themselves, will they? ๐ŸŒฑ Off the Battersea Affordable Art Fair next week with @MarineHouseBeer
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Hooper's Geese .. sighting the postman's van from 500 yards
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A distant sea but closer, childhood's memory...hot sun, and then cool shade, a galvanised barn full of the sweet stink of warm sacking, tractor oil and poultry crates, feathers and shit and the sharp smell of wild chamomile daisies trodden in a workaday yard Sevenstones
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July well, it very nearly is...
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Bluster and rain here and the asters and dahlias putting on a brave face in the garden. September has come in like a grizzly bear in Gunnislake. Beech Wood, Bray now at Marine House At Beer
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View To Kit Hill: where from ? Oh about 1780 ...
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September Fields, off to Marine House At Beer as soon as he's dressed ๐Ÿ’š
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The Old Folks At Home
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'Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees..' Walter de la Mare
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How it feels
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Work in progress: Off The Bus. Two buses a day except Sundays and every other Monday, oh and once a month to Truro
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Calm autumn's in the air, rosehips and dahlias, the blackbird's back and a dozen sparrows are jostling at the table for breakfast
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Whimple Farm Down the lane where the barn owls sweep O'er sleeping farmers and dozing sheep
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'A Breezy Day, South Hill' from Distant Hills, opening 16th September at Marine House At Beer ๐ŸŒž
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Homestead Where all is safely gathered in And sloes sleep sugared in the gin And blue skies sing as Autumn prances Into Summer's country dances
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Good morning, February's indulging himself with grey and damp outside here in Gunnislake so sending you a bright moment..All's Right With The World. Have a good day! ๐Ÿ’›
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Oakhill : one of 32 new paintings in my exhibition 'Home', opening at Marine House At Beer in Devon next Saturday 11th, exploring themes of the Land, Heart and Homestead ๐Ÿ’š
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The Evening Visitor: Old Couple With Fox . Acrylic on board and just finished. I hear vodka calling me in a calculatedly misleading choir boy's treble .. or is that a double?
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Evening Sun, the Coombe .. New work as Autumn bends his head round the old door and enquires if he may come in
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Path To Rokesby Wood Did you visit here at all or when you were in dream? Do you remember well the path or does it seem To dissolve into memory's ever drifting stream Of somewhere that, when you were someone else, You feel you must have been?
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Bruin's Afternoon : No 1 in a series of 'Encounters with the Solitary'
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She Was Only The Farmer's Daughter...
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Old paintings are like fading memories of a walk you once took to somewhere to which you never returned. I can't even remember his name ๐Ÿ˜•
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Darting bright in the silvery light Calling retorts to the bleats of sleepy, silly sheep Nightbirds
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The Den
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Beneath The Hill
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"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields....." Christopher Marlowe The Shepherd.
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Lord Radley's At Home and the neighbours will shudder and pull tight their curtains tonight. On the warm pink air, squeals from a drunken string quartet, shrieks from the shrubbery, catcalls from the gables, screaming peacocks and the interminable popping of a gunnery of corks.
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Granary .. dancing stooks in a golden field in the heat and stillness of noon
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The Land Of Lost Content
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Firstborn on the farm, delight of her father, doubt of her mother til she saw her husband's joy. Bathed in the scullery sink, playing about the yard, happy to wait on a brother, joyful, the hope of her redknuckled parents, transfigured by her love of their land. Farmgirl, 2022
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The wild dash and joy of his dogs and always the surprise of the great panorama as Isaac brows the hill... View From The Copse
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'At The Door'๐ŸŒ™
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Low Sun
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So much early working life was spent avoiding the same, roaming/loafing about the fields and moors with dogs in a wastrel's idyll. Ironically I've too much work now to loiter and I realise I'm now living vicariously through all these happy wasters who roam round in the paintings
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Two Sheep, Tremere Ewes under the moon ๐ŸŒ™
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Owl At Honicombe One of 29 new paintings from 'Distant Hills', my solo show opening on Saturday at Marine House At Beer in Devon ๐Ÿฅณ
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