Oil pastel painting.

Autumn on the Leicester Arm.
A small painting on watercolour paper mounted on board and waxed.

Recent work

The mushroom season is nearly upon us here, and to celebrate this here are a couple of sculptural pots that have a practical purpose. 

Derived from African pottery forms these deep bowls have textured bases and pinched rims with lugs for wooden handles gathered from the local woodland. Finished in a honey glaze and oversprayed with a darker iron oxide glaze the rims remain unglazed giving them a dry, rough feeling in contrast to the body of the pot. The wooden handles are left untreated and attached with jute cord. 

They are ideal as sculptural pieces in their own right or could be used as bowls for fruit or similar items. 

Currently these are available for sale in my Etsy shop, AlecPDavis. 
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AlecPDavis?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

al-davis: 1st day of Autumn

al-davis: 1st day of Autumn: It never fails to amaze me how the weather senses the man-made calendar: every year the first day of September, the start of Autumn seems to...

1st day of Autumn

It never fails to amaze me how the weather senses the man-made calendar: every year the first day of September, the start of Autumn seems to live up to its name and delivers a scene of "Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness"! Having lived up to this it can go back to summer again for a while, but the first day of Autumn never seems to miss out on its chance...

Bones, of course is ever-present on these occasions...

There is a full spectrum in this image which I rather like, and unusually the colour runs from warm in the background to cool in the foreground.