Evening Glow through the trees

With so few trees on Exmoor, it is always great to appreciate their beauty. The Exmoor landscape is captured in this little oil painting. The deep autumn tones of the bracken and the greens of the gorse with low lights shimmering through the trees on the horizon. This impressionist painting takes its inspiration from the …

Autumnal Tones

This little painting was inspired by Annie’s walks on Exmoor with her two labradors Woody and Smartie. She frequently walks from Haddon Hill around Wimbleball reservoir. It is one of her favourite places to collect ideas for paintings. She explains, “The light changes quickly on Exmoor. One minute the sky is dark and brooding, the …

CHOCOLATE BOOKS in Wivelescombe until 11th January 2025

I am showing a selection of small landscapes, oil on canvas, at this new bookshop in Wiveliscombe. It’s an amazing bookshop with plenty of comfy armchairs and sofas as well as a play tent for children. Six little oil paintings of Exmoor are to be found above the fireplace. All are £125 each and available …

Somewhere in the wood a blackbird is singing

Close by Annie’s studio, there is a small copse of trees. She took her inspiration for this work from walking through the copse when a blackbird was singing its heart out. In the density of summer foliage it was impossible to see the bird, just hear it somewhere in the wood. The tranquility and coolness …