River Thames from Radley Boathouse

Artist’s Notes : Painted en plein air in early summer, this painting depicts the exquisite view from my friend Hazel’s balcony and happy days spent at the Radley College Boathouse; with Oilseed-rape, Cumulus clouds in a blue sky and the musing river, travelling on past, forever - the Thames here is reminiscent of Tennyson’s poem:

“I come from haunts of Coot and Hern, I make a sudden sally and sparkle out among the fern, to bicker down a valley… with many a curve my banks I fret, by many a field and fallow, and many a fairy foreland set with Willow-weed and Mallow… For men may come and men may go but I go on forever.”

— From The Brook by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886

Medium: Oil Pastel on textured paper

Original: SOLD.

Prints: AVAILABLE to purchase as a Giclée print, please enquire.