My next show, "WAVES and WAKES", is scheduled to run from Sat 12th April until Sat 10th May at the Katharine House Gallery, in The Parade, MARLBOROUGH, Wiltshire, SN8 1NE. For further information, ring The Gallery, which is open Tue-Sat, on 01672-514040.

Gust and Short Fetch

Size: 0.91m x 0.61m  Medium: Oils on canvas  

June 1976  Exhibited: D 

Here I was facing out over the water and standing on the raised concrete bank about 5ft above the wide River Medway in Maidstone, Kent. The wind was strong and blowing boisterously from behind me over the short leeward fetch of relatively-calm water, sheltered by the bank beneath my feet.

Where gusts first struck open water, the River's surface was immediately agitated into a confusion of small waves, which were blown out over the water to form a recognisable billow train by the time they reached midstream, and then grew further until reaching the far bank.

Most of the over-painting above has been done using the edge of a palette-knife.