New Forest

Thanks for visiting my web site. Please have a look at the examples in each category, for instance this one about New Forest Scenes. Prints are available of some of the following through this web site at £65 framed plus postage or unframed at £30 plus postage.

The Sentinel

This is my back garden! A mere 15 minutes away live a herd of red deer near Rhinefield. This is the first of I hope many pictures of these truly regal creatures, the legacy of the royal deer kept in the New Forest. This picture is the result of a day spent with the Herd in January 2005. If approached they always leave one guy behind as the early warning system to the others and so I called this one the Sentinel whilst the others move on (see right of picture). This is now the basis for my new business card and the advertisement used byBrokenhurst college as I start as an Art Tutor for them in April 2005.

A new version of this is now in Kentucky, USA called Father and Son. And the family below has now been exported to Scotland Original size 36 x 24"

Blackwater River

And when the day was drawing to a close this is where I first saw the deer, but its now 5pm in the evening. Bright but cold and lonely the Blackwater river makes its way to the sea. This is just round the corner from the beautiful Rhinefield Hotel and the same day I met with the red deer.

Original 24 x 18 Sold

2007 originals still available of the Blackwater

Rhinefield Gold

This is very near to where the red deer scene was taken but facing the opposite way. I call it Gold because that is what it is painted in, as well as copper and vetetian red - all colours portraying the rich winter scene we have here.

Originals 24 x 18 Sold

Avon Water

These are a series of originals of a local stream which I found fascinating enough to paint; same water but so different!

Originals still available 24 x 18

Wooton Bridge

From the Rising (of the) Sun to Wilverley Plain you will cross this little but solid bridge. The New Forest Ponies and red deer water here whilst picnics take place on the other side

Original Sold

Brownhills

This is 5 minutes away from my home - beautiful when the sun streams through the trees

Ober Water, near Puttles Bridge Whitefield Moor, New Forest

Sunday lunchtime - waistlines, children, dogs and kites need to be let out! What better place to go than the walks around Puttles Bridge! This view is taken of the third bridge from the road bridge. The time is May 2004 when roots of the trees have been exposed after many spring floods, making the ground particularly uneven on this side of the river. The water is a deep translucent, iron red from the minerals and the fallen foliage, rendering even darker the deep holes left by the flood.  

Original 30 x 20 Available

 “ Weak Bridge” Ornamental Drive, Rhinefield, New Forest

“He makes me lie down beside still waters and he restores my soul” Psalm 23

We are often familiar with places but we don't always see all the views; this picture is a case in point. As you walk or drive from the Rhinefield Hotel down the Ornamental Drive you will cross this bridge. However there is no convenient path to see it from this angle. The level of the river rises and falls according to the rainfall, but on days like this you can walk across in places where the shingle has gathered. You can feel the stillness in the air when the flood has passed.

Original 30 x 20 now resides in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Looking Back (New)

After you have crossed all those previous bridges you arrive here, among the giant redwoods of the Ornamental Drive at Rhinefield

Wilverley

This picture was commissioned by New Life church for John and Carol Griffiths move to the Far East, or Worthing as its known! This view is the middle gate on the east side of the Wilverley Plain enclosure - a junction in the path before you move on or out to the plain and fresh pastures.

Original Sold