Autmn Road was first painted on a wall in a former home. Later, I painted it on canvas from memory.
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Cheeky Bugger was one of Nell's Parrots who loved to play hide and seek, and scold if his food dish was empty.
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The memory of a Mountain Lodge
pen an ink

This iris was growing in my garden. I couldn't resist capturing its curves and almost feather-like petals that danced in the slightes breeze.
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Stormy Port. Painted from memory of the harbor in Ilfracombe, Devon, England.
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1968 Homecoming Corsage at Southern Illinois University.
Ink and Watercolor.

Bathing Beauties is a memorial to Nell, my sister, who loved her Australian parrots and parakeets. This birdbath was outside her french doors.
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A rare siting of a pair of King Parrots in Nell's trees and a blurry photo, demanded a painting. The way the male is looking at the female, I am tempted to title this one
"O-la-la!"
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Beached Boats was painted in 1974-75 when we lived in a farm cottage near Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. It could have been on the banks of the River Derben. It is bequeathed to my daughter, Gillean, as she remembers the rambles we used to take through this area.
Oil paints