Goodbye Winter
Hi folks, be great if you can make it. Many local artists are exhibiting.
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Nigel Montandon
- Aug 14, 2022
- 1 min
Here we go again!!!
Hi folks, after 2 years under the grip of Covid, and now facing possibly the worst global finance problems this century caused by some...
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Nigel Montandon
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
The Moods of the Malvern's
I am now able to concentrate some serious time in my studio and have been captivated by the early morning skies which I have endeavoured...
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Nigel Montandon
- Feb 11, 2021
- 1 min
Just a quickie............
Change of direction....Spring is coming.. Oil on canvas 10" x 12". Unframed but ready to hang. Contact me for more information.
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Nigel Montandon
- Jan 2, 2021
- 2 min
HAPPY NEW YEAR......( you deserve it!)
Sorry, yes I am a day late. I was looking through some photos of 2019 as I prepared this blog and I found these first 3 pics of Sidmouth,...
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Nigel Montandon
- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
Xmas, Brahms and other things.........
This has been such a challenging year. We started with great plans to support the Autistic Society this year with open gallery events,...
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Nigel Montandon
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
The last bluebell picture.....for a little while.
I have just completed this last picture of woodland at Woodend. It is a larger full sheet (30" x 22") watercolour with some pastel work....
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Nigel Montandon
- Nov 28, 2020
- 1 min
First of the winter floods and other things...........
Hello folks, three watercolours today, First Floods and Across the Common. Both 11" x 15" and a couple of warm ups in my sketchbook....
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Nigel Montandon
- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
These are ready for a new home........
Hi folks, two newly completed oils, on canvas (framed) 50cms x 70 cms. Both views in woodland owned by my neighbours. Hope you like.
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Nigel Montandon
- Nov 20, 2020
- 1 min
I've been busy !!..........
Hi all, the leaves are cleared up, the lawns been cut, hedges cut and generally prepared for winter. Now happily back in thestudio. The...
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Nigel Montandon
- Nov 8, 2020
- 1 min
A bit more painting....
Couple of oil sketches across my field. Both oil on board, ' Mid-day grazing' 10" x 8" and the next 'Evening Sky' 7.5" x 11" Thanks for...
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Nigel Montandon
- Nov 5, 2020
- 1 min
What a difference the sun makes............
Took a walk around the garden in the brilliant Autmn sun. Even the most ordinary views become things of great beauty. Completed today,...
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Nigel Montandon
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
More lockdown paintings
Clifford Bufton, my neighbour, had just finished baling this hay when very sinister clouds arrived. I took my easel outside and managed...
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Nigel Montandon
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
Oh dear! Its nearly June....
Good day folks. Yes, this year seems to be flying by. I had so much planned but Covid 19 has put paid to many things. However, being...
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Nigel Montandon
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
A cruel frost and more paintings......
We have had a hard frost here the last couple of nights. It took the blossoms of two large rhododendrons, wiped out pieris shoots and...
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Nigel Montandon
- May 9, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown fever..... lets get painting!
Yes, its a long haul for Daphne and I so this is a release for me. I paint for the pleasure I get from trying to relate to the the viewer...
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Nigel Montandon
- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
VE day 2020...........
I made this full size plywood figure of a WW11 tommy emerging from the battlefield to be greeted by a grateful modern day child who is...
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Nigel Montandon
- Apr 30, 2020
- 1 min
I just love this plant ...and other things
This lovely climber is an Actinidia Kolomikta. Its an easily grown perennial that will thrive in sun or part shade. This is around 3...
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Nigel Montandon
- Apr 26, 2020
- 1 min
Todays Painting...
Hey Folks, this little scene took my eye some time ago but I have only just got down to it. Quickly executed pen and wash using a home...
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Nigel Montandon
- Apr 25, 2020
- 1 min
How about these.....
As you may know I made hundreds of poppies for the Royal British Legion. These ,of course, were coloured red. I have made a small number...
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