Vivien Blackburn: Paintings

Paintings of Norfolk and Cornwall: Working in oil paints, watercolours and mixed media, mostly plein air, looking at the specific light, weather, mood and colour of the day. Sometimes the sea is grey and steely but with hints of pale viridian and mauve. Another day it may be a vivid deep blue. The wet sand may reflect mauves and pinks - it's never the same and changes rapidly as clouds and time pass.

In Norfolk the coast is flat with dunes, salt marshes and the tide goes out for miles. Cornwall has wild Atlantic breakers, rocks and high cliffs and the tide doesn't recede too far, leaving pools and patterns carved by the wild surf. Both are interesting to paint in their own way but my first love is Cornwall, where I lived as a child.

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Sennen Cove, oil piant	rainy day. sennen cove, watercolour	sennen cove, oil

lanyon quoit, carbon pencil	huge rocks above Sennen Cove	lanyon quoit charcoal

across the bay, early morning, watercoloour	mawgan porth, watercolour	mawgan porth, watercolour, mixed media

Cornish beach, 16 in mixed media on paper	Sunset, Low Tide, 24 ins sq oil on canvas, painting by Vivien Blackburn	sennen cove

Last Light. 20 in approx, charcoal and coloured pencil	Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, watercolour 10/11in sq, Hunstanton	Cornish beach, 16 in charcoal

approaching rain, mixed media. 10 ins approx	Tides Edge. 40 ins square canvas. mixed media	Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, oil on primed paper 14 inches square

Sunset, Ebb Tide, oil on canvas, 24 ins sq, painting by Vivien Blackburn	Blue Day, Ebb Tide, oil on canvas 24 ins sq, painting by Vivien Blackburn	The Common, above Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk 12in sq oil on canvas