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Winsor & Newton Artist Oil Colour on canvas 24cm x 29cm

Winsor & Newton Artist Oil Colour on canvas. 30cm x 40cm

Winsor & Newton Artist Oil Colour on canvas. 55cm x 46cm

Painting by Richard Harby This realist interior was created in Winsor & Newtons Artists’ Oil colours on canvas. It was painted from a water-colour study done in situ and photographs. The chalk marks, paint splashes and graphiti were carefully positioned to divide the picture. The perspective was achieved by snapping chalk line on the canvas…

Painting by Richard Harby 30cm x 40cm W & N Artists’ Oil Colour on Canvas This small oil painting is part of a series of pictures that have conjuring & magic as a theme. The three bent spoons have been arranged in a close group, but without their shadows touching. A random look that was…

83cm x 51cm W & N Artists’ Oil Colour on Canvas This Oil Painting was painted from life and is a room in the Medlock Fine Arts Dept. Manchester. I made the painting just after I had seen the Edward Hopper exhibition at the Hayward. He has been an inspiration to me on many occasions.…

70cm x 50cm W&N Artists’ Oil Colour on Canvas This is an oil painting of a baffling Illusion that was shown on TV as one of the worlds greatest tricks.It is painted in oils on a rouge grained canvas. The bulb shape was masked and prepared with many coats of Winsor & Newtons underpainting white…

24cm x 33cm W & N Artists’ Acrylics on canvas A small acrylic painting of part of a door in Gourdon, France. The image is depicted half life size in this painting. I have painted a series of ten door paintings in acrylics while living in Gourdon. Surprisingly the last time i saw this actual…

91cm x 61cm W & N Artists’ Oil Colour Painted at night under fluorescent Lighting at the Medlock Fine Art Centre. The picture is painted on a coarse canvas in Oils. In the centre of the picture are the sodium street lights of the Mancunian Way showing through a window and below this orange glow…

20cm x 30cm W & N Artists’ oil colour on canvas The spoon is painted life-size on a wooden chess board it was produced at the same time as the bent spoons painting and has a sort of Dutch interior, tiled floor perspective. It also features challenging shadows and reflective surfaces which I enjoy painting.…