Slapton Lock Art Print

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One of the first places I ever went fishing was on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton in Buckinghamshire, England. Canals are man-made waterways that were once a very important part of the transport system, but nowadays are mainly used for leisure purposes. Narrow-boats were the means of transport and in this painting, one is just approaching a lock at Slapton. Locks were a clever invention by which canals could take a more direct route through land with different levels and still be navigable by boat. The locks were manned by a lock-keeper who's job it was to operate and maintain the locks. The lock-keeper usually lived on site in a cottage, here the white building seen on the right hand side of the picture. I spent hours fishing here and although the boats are colourfully painted and pleasing on the eye, they cause annoyance to fishermen. The narrow canal means that it is not possible to fish when a boat passes. Also each time a lock is emptied, it causes the water to flow very rapidly...

I am an English Artist living in Borlange, Sweden since 2005. I have been painting on and off since the early eighties, in oils to begin with before moving on to watercolours. I also have an interest in photography which I have often used as part of my preliminary work for my paintings. In recent months, I have had a little extra time on my hands, which has fuelled my artistic fire. I find that I am experimenting much more with my photography to create more abstract images at the same time as learning new methods of processing photographs. This in turn, is influencing my ideas for paintings. Anybody visiting my website, will find a real mixture of styles and mediums and I believe, something for everybody. The reason that I paint or take...

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