Lazy Barns English Electric Canberra The Curtiss Kittyhawk

The Curtiss Kittyhawk

One of the elements of a painting that greatly increases the interest and narrative is the inclusion of animals

I did in the end feel I wanted to catch the place accurately

and so the idea of including a shire horse was born

The print is signed by the novelist Chris Davey and the artist Robin Smith

Lazy Barns English Electric Canberra The Curtiss KittyhawkThe setting for this painting didn't take very much travelling to it is right behind my cottage on the outskirts of a Lincolnshire village called Grimoldby. To add a little interest in the foreground, I introduced a little evidence of water. This is artistic licence at it's best as I have never actually seen any water there but I have always given a great deal of importance to the foregrounds in my work. Foregrounds are important because they lead the