Landscape Gallery

Mousehole Harbour  Acrylic on Acrylic Board (A3 Unframed) Here is another acrylic from my trip to Moushole in Cornwall in spring 2019. It was a most productive trip, and I fancy, that as yet, I have a few more to … Read More

Mousehole Harbour (2) Acrylic on Acrylic Board (A3 Unframed) Here is another acrylic from my trip to Moushole in Cornwall in spring 2019. It was a most productive trip, and I fancy, that as yet, I have a few more … Read More

New York Burger Stalls Oil on Canvas 20 inches x 14 inches, (Unframed) This is possibly the final paining I shall do from the New York trip. I’m not absolutely sure, because I have other material, and I do find … Read More

Norwich Market Place Painted by Frank Callaghan.  Oil on Canvas (16 inches x 16 inches) (Unframed) I was looking forward to painting this one. It contained a lot of the ingredients I like to paint. It’s busy, there’s a lot … Read More

Oxford in the rain an Acrylic Painting by Frank Callaghan.  Acrylic on Acrylic Board (Circa A3) (Unframed) I love Oxford. It’s a City of views. I don’t mean the inevitable fine architecture of the College buildings, fine as they are, … Read More

Pen over water colour: Inside Carmel Priory (Pen over water colour on water colour paper)  (A4 Unframed) This was a sketch from the South Lakes sketch book. Carmel Priory is a beautiful building, both inside and out. It has all the … Read More

Pin Mill Barges Painted by Frank Callaghan in Oil on Canvas. Oil on Canvas (16′ x 20′) (Unframed) This is the third of the paintings of Pin Mill. I was keen to get the effect of low sun and reflected … Read More

Pin Mill. Acrylic on Acrylic Board (Circa A3) (Unframed) This is taken from one of several sketches I did and photographs that I took whilst in Suffolk last summer. Pin Mill is a honey pot for artists, oozing as it … Read More

Railway Graveyard: Lydney Steam Railway Acrylic on acrylic board (A4) (Unframed) I did this from images sketched and photographed on a trip earlier this year to The Forest of Deane. I stayed near Lydney, and being a succour for steam … Read More

This painting is taken from a photograph sent to me by my pal Christine, who saw this view on her early morning run, and stopped to snap it on her camera.

I really liked the composition, and after a bit of artistic license edting, this is what I painted.

The reflections were particularly appealing as they are pretty much a mirror image.

On this I have tried very hard to be broader and a bit less immediate with the marks I have made. It started off well enough with broad background under-painting, but the detail of foliage once more drew me in.

Salisbury Cathedral 2018 carol Service Acrylic on Board  (A4) (Unframed) This is what I call a ‘quickie’. I don’t know why I say that, as it took just as long to paint as an A3, given all the detail, but … Read More

Salisbury sheep (A4 acrylic on water colour paper) (Unframed) This quick acrylic in A4 format, on water colour paper, is an image I captured equally quickly on a very sunny day in Salisbury during the summer. We were walking around … Read More

Southwold Harbour: (Acrylic on Acrylic Board.) (Circa A3) (Unframed) I struggled with this painting. Now that it’s finished I’m not happy with it, but may try a different view later, in oil and larger. I was prompted to paint it after … Read More

St Peter Mancroft Norwich. A4 Water Colour/mixed media with pen on Water Colour paper   I think this picture reinforces the fact that I still struggle to come to terms with water colour. I keep trying, and this is another … Read More

Stonehenge (2) Water colour. Circa A3 I continue my battle with watercolour. It’s not a medium I seem to instinctively take to. But I persevere with it because it’s something I would dearly love to be good at. This is … Read More

Street scene Great Yarmouth.  Acrylic on acrylic board. (Circa A3) (Unframed) I love street scenes and cars, and I love monumental buildings, so this had all of the elements I most seek in this type of picture. It was part … Read More

I didn’t think I would be painting any more scenes of Norwich Market, when I saw this one. I thought it was colourful and lively, and I liked the figures that made it interesting, so I have included it.

I have to say I have struggled with this and maybe it shows. I found painting all the background stalls with hanging clothes and piles of bedding, or whatever it is, rather tiresome, and it was more like colouring in than painting. The original that I was working from, was of poor quality which made it more difficult, and I felt that the whole thing was becoming messy.

I worked hard on the figures and the foreground, and I feel they were stronger, though far from perfect, and as such they do a job at holding the composition together.