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Wishing you all 

A Very Merry Christmas

and A Happy New Year!

Mousehole

Mousehole, Cornwall

 In the first week of June this year I was leading a landscape painting holiday from St. Ives in Cornwall for HF Holidays. The guests and I went painting to three locations other than in St. Ives, we went to Porthcurnow which is a beautiful little bay just below the world famous Minack Theatre, We also visited Marazion and painted St. Michaels Mount and we spent a great day painting in the little fishing village of Mousehole, pronounced Mowzal. The locals were very friendly and the weather was reasonably considerate and though I didn't actually get to paint myself I did do a little sketching, took lots of photographs for reference material and created this oil painting in the studio some time after I got home. Also, later in the comfort of my studio I painted this picture of Porthcurnow featured below. Cornwall is a beautiful County and having visited St. Ives for the first time one can understand the historical attraction for artists, there is a definite quality of light even on a misty day which screams 'paint me'!

Porthcurnow

Award Winning Pastel Painting

One competition two awards, I was awarded 4th place for my pastel painting 'Early Morning Mist' from a total of 734 entries and a certificate of special recognition for my oil painting                             'Low Tide, Staithes' in the annual 'Open' competition run by the 'Light, Space and Time' Online Gallery.

'Early Morning Mist'

'Low Tide, Staithes'

Official Charity Book Launch

The details on the above poster are a little of the story, please come along on Saturday morning and help us raise some money for this most worthy of causes, it would be great to see you there!. 

Porthcurnow, Cornwall

Porthcurnow, Cornwall

This is a painting resulting from a painting holiday that I recently lead for HF Holidays at their house in St. Ives. We went to Porthcurnow beach which is just below the famous Minack Theatre. When we arrived the weather was rough with light rain and a heavy sea but as often happens when the tide turns the weather changed and gradually the day brightened and the sea calmed; The rollers became less violent and this is the painting that resulted from my sketch and photographs, a memorable day for me and hopefully for the guests too!

Please Vote For My Painting

If you think it worthy perhaps you could click on this link and vote for my painting that made it to the final in the Patchings (The Artist exhibition category). They are now looking for the peoples choice
https://www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk/…/TALP_Ex…/gallery.php…

This is the one...

Many thanks folks!

Low Tide at Staithes

Here is my latest oil painting it is 30 x 90 cm on stretched cotton canvas... I'll blog a little more about it later.

Drawings From France

Drawings created on my last trip to the Aquitaine

Why not join me in this wonderful part of France on one of my two holidays in September?

E-mail me for details; hello@murrayince.com

My Latest Completed Paintings

Brook Cottages brought to a conclusion with the addition of a fairly simple foreground.

Milford Sound, a commissioned painting, I particularly like the clouds over the mountain sides.

The completed painting of Newtown Creek.

New Project

Winter Scene, Calbourne Stage I

Having drawn the very basic shapes of the trees and landscape I then gave the canvas an acrylic wash of Raw Sienna sealing the graphite down, killing the white of the canvas and making tonal value and colour choice much easier.