Ian Sidaway's huge dirty paint box creates luminous watercolors. I first met British watercolor artist Sidaway through a series of sm...
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. (Gore Vidal) We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours. (Marcel Proust)
The mole had been working very hard all morning, spring cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. (The Wind in the willows. Kenneth Grahame) A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek proverb)
"Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." (Herman Hess) "Until you dig a hole, plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking." (Wangari Maathai)
Ian Sidaway is a teacher, author, and artist and has published more than 30 award-winning books on drawing and watercoloring He teaches painting workshops
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breath his natures air in his contented ground. (The Qui...
The River Lune, Kirkby Lonsdale. Watercolour. 54x54cms. Wasdale Head. Watercolour. 36x36cms. Buttermere and Mellbreak. Watercolour. 51x68cms The Honister Pass. Watercolour. 51x68cms Wastwater Scree Slopes. Watercolour. 51x68cms The Bridge at Grange. Watercolour. 51x68cms.
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Ian Sidaway is a teacher, author, and artist and has published more than 30 award-winning books on drawing and watercoloring He teaches painting workshops
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. (Franz Schubert) With the coming of spring, I am calm again. (Gustav Mahler)
Bedruthan Steps Pendarvas Island. Watercolour. 48x50cms Bedruthan Steps. Watercolour. 48x50cms Bedruthan Steps looking South. Watercolour. 78x98cms Kings Hat The New Forest. Oil on Board. 42x52cms Kings Hat. Oil on Board. 42x42cms
"Like Tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, Bending beneath the invisible west-wind's sighs." (Thomas Moore) "How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with new born vigour!" (Colette)
Levens Hall Park Watercolour 50x35cms Autumn Richmond Park Watercolour 78x92cms Summer Oak Petworth Watercolour 78x92cms Pentra Ifan Wales Watercolour 78x92cms
Bedruthan Steps Pendarvas Island. Watercolour. 48x50cms Bedruthan Steps. Watercolour. 48x50cms Bedruthan Steps looking South. Watercolour. 78x98cms Kings Hat The New Forest. Oil on Board. 42x52cms Kings Hat. Oil on Board. 42x42cms
"He that planteth a tree is a servant of god, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him." (Henry van Dyke) "It was very sad under the trees. Although the spring was well adsvanced in the deep shade there was nothing but death rotton leaves, grey and white fungi and over everything a funeral hush." (Nathanael West)
