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Romance in Mousehole

The idea for this piece developed one summer in Cornwall. Time spent watching the gulls serenade each other on the colourful beaches brought me great inspiration. I chose to use Mousehole as the backdrop for the painting as I loved the shape of this pretty fishing harbour with the vibrant surfboards and bursting with Cornish charm. Some of my recent paintings combine landscape with still life so this was

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