The Doors

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Oil on hardboard 8" x 8"

Remember the pop group in the 60s? Jim Morrison and The Doors? No, of course, I don't suppose most of you do. Well to be honest I don't remember them all that well myself, not because I wasn't a grown up person then, because I was :-) but I spent most of the 60s washing nappies and wiping noses :-). I read on Wikipedia however that the group still sells a million albums annually which is amazing isn't it? We have Leonard Cohen in Manchester soon but I don't think I'll go - can't hear so good, but I used to love his stuff. Anyway, 2 yellow doors in Stalybridge with the varnish coming off them. That particular place has been shut up for ages. I don't know what it was but it was kind of relaxing to paint.

Closed for business

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Oil on hardboard 8" x 8"

I am coming to realise how much I like painting shops, especially when they have filtered sunlight on their facades like this. I also prefer painting them when they are closed. You can see them better that way.

Fire on the moors

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Oil on hardboard 8" x 8"

Occasionally in the summer months when the bracken is very dry we sometimes get a fire on the moors overlooking the town. This one took place in 2006 and was quite a big one for us, posing a bit of a threat to the poeople living in the foothills.