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WATERCOLOURS, forever the poor relatives of oil painting, have been unjustly associated with “Sunday amateurs,” a stigma that the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours has fought against tooth and nail. To its credit, it’s done so with considerable success.
The institutes’s annual exhibition and awards for painters working in the medium has been the silver lining for artists tested by the pandemic and perhaps trying times have somewhat clipped the wings of the intrepid experimentation evidenced in shows over the last few years.
Yet the unexpected and intriguing is there in Brian Smith’s Ernie’s Beach reminiscent of Abraham Hondius’s Frost Fairs which celebrates a triumph over developers to keep a popular stretch of the Thames near the OXO Tower public.
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The Last Iceberg? (Free for Use Photo by Erik Mclean from Pexels)
I have just watched the latest episode of A Perfect Planet. This beautifully filmed series is presented by Sir David Attenborough. The series shows how natural forces, the weather, ocean currents, solar energy and volcanoes affect life on Earth.
Now comes the big thaw: Temperatures are set to hit double digits this week with 12C expected across the south - after record lows saw the sea start to freeze and the Thames ice over for the first time in 60 years
Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice now remain in place across swathes of the UK until today
The mercury could rise to a comparatively balmy 12C in the south west of the UK as the winter weather thaws
Yesterday waves turned to ice in Cumbria and River Thames froze in Teddington as the mercury plummeted