reservoir swallow
oil on canvas, 1370mm x 1020mm
Rheidol reservoir. One summer I saw swallows and house martins skimming a giant mirror and could not forget it. I came back a year later in good weather but not the same conditions; so I asked a local friend, Rhian Thomas, when would be the best time to find the water so still again. She said early mornings.
I got up early next day and there was the mirror, and there were the birds.

one of a set of different exposures

Birds went into and even under the water.
study

studio

charcoal composition on canvas

choosing glaze base colours

first glaze base : cadmium red and yellow reflecting surface for green glazes

green glazes, first try, failed

new glaze base
