Watercolours - Works on Paper exhibition starts tomorrow

Watercolour - Works on Paper Art Fair

31st Jan to 3rd Feb 2013

at Level 2, Science Museum, London SW7

I will have a number of Watercolour paintings displayed on the Jack Fine Art Stand during this exhibition.

The fair is held in a self contained space on Level 2 of the Science Museum. Using the main Museum entrance on Exhibition Road, then take the glass lift at the end of the main Reception Hall up to Level 2. The lift exits at the doors to the fair.

There is a also a covered passage leading from South Kensington tube station directly to the Exhibition Road entrance. 

There will be a coffee bar and licensed café within the fair.

For more details of the Watercolour Works on Paper Art Fair click here

Early, Modern and Contemporary art on paper
The Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair returns for 4 days to the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, SW7 from Thursday 31 January - Sunday 3 February 2013.

View and buy from a range of Early, Modern and Contemporary art dealers and see a range of Museum quality art presented in 4 interconnected galleries on one floor, this time on Level One.

Prices start at a manageable level: £250 - £500 for mounted drawings, majority of works priced between £500 to £10,000, and then the exceptional items at £10,000 plus.

What can you find at the fair?
Watercolours and drawings: all types of pictures drawn by hand, in ink, pencil, crayon, chalk, pastel, gouache, watercolour or charcoal.
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Works on Paper: a wider range of original art on paper, including prints, photographs, posters and handmade artists' books.

For the website of Jack Fine Art click here

The finished snow oil painting started in a post a few days ago

 Detail from "-15ºC All Day", Yorkshire.
Oil. Alistair Butt © 2013 - #AB 0213014

Oil Painting - Seathwaite, Cumbria

Detail from "Summer Day, Seathwaite, Cumbria".
Oil. Alistair Butt © 2013 - #AB 021319

Just as a change to all the snow, here's one painted from reference material gathered last summer and now drying in the studio before being framed.

A very warm day, with people even out sunbathing while most others being harded walkers were returning (now afternoon) from Scarfell, the highest mountain in England at 978 metres (3,209 ft). The route up to Scarfell (plus others) from Seathwaite is considered the best as can be seen by the number of cars parked on the lane to the hamlet on most days.


Seathwaite also has another clam... in that it's the wettest inhabited place in England and receives around 3,552 millimetres (140 in) of rain per year. In September 1966 five inches of rain fell on Seathwaite and the surrounding fells in an hour, the resulting flood severely damaging the nearby Stockley Bridge, which lies 1200 metres south of the hamlet. Stockley Bridge is an ancient packhorse bridge on the old route between Borrowdale and the Cumbrian coast. The bridge was widened in 1887 and had to be repaired after the 1966 storm. On 19–20 November 2009 Seathwaite received 314.4 millimetres (12.38 in) of rain in a 24-hour period, a major contributor to the 2009 Cumbria and southwest Scotland floods. If confirmed this is a record for the amount of rain falling anywhere in the UK within 24 hours.


The result of all this water is than most of the becks (A beck, in old Norse, is a brook or stream with a stony bed) are crystal clear, as most of the soil has been washed away but it means that every pebble and boulder can be seen on the bed.

This oil painting when ready will be heading up to the Beckstones Art Gallery, nr Penrith, Cumbria.

More snow related oil paintings - one finished while the other is about half way...

Detail from "Snow covered fields with Hoar Frost", Northamptonshire.
Oil. Alistair Butt © 2013 - #AB 021309

The morning fog had covered all the trees & vegetation with a good coat of hoar frost. With the fog having cleared, the hoar frost was now catching the afternoon sunlight and almost glowing against the clear blue sky. One of those subjects that maybe, without the snow and frost along with the good warm light from the afternoon sun, one could walk by without a second look.

Started this oil the other night - now part way through this painting, still much to add - ice floating down the river, more work needed on the ice in the foreground with it's vegetation, tree is just basic framework at present and then both banks need finishing...

Reference for this came from a few years ago and a few hours working alongside this river in Yorkshire. It was the coldest I've been out working in -15°C although lower earlier in the morning.