French Irises. Painting by Tessa Bennett.

Irises in a French garden.     Painting by Tessa Bennett.

May blossom and the Northumberland countryside. A blackbird looks for worms amongst the grass. Three paintings by Tessa Bennett.

Four Pears, painting  by Tessa Bennett.

Six Apples, a painting by Tessa Bennett.

Hydrangeas in a French antique pottery jug,  painting by Tessa Bennett.

May blossom,  and the glorious fields of  Northumberland  beyond.

A nesting blackbird scratches and pecks for worms in the mown grass.

Orchid in pot, painting by Tessa Bennett.

Orchid, a painting by Tessa Bennett.

2 yellow tulips, a painting.

 2 yellow tulips, painting by Tessa Bennett.

Painting - ' Birthday flowers', roses and tulips.

Birthday flowers, yellow roses and orange tulips, painting by Tessa Bennett.

Chinese lanterns, marigolds, nasturtians, quince, and gym shoes. Paintings by Tessa Bennett.

Windfall apples, painting by Tessa Bennett.

A painting of French windfall apples, by Tessa Bennett. 

Quinces 2, November 2011

Painting of quinces by Tessa Bennett.

Quinces, a painting.

Quinces in a bowl, a painting by Tessa Bennett.

More onions

Painting of onions by T. Bennett.

Just Onions

Painting of onions on a red cloth, by Tessa Bennett.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                               

Wemyss ware, painting of a jug and basin decorated with cabbage roses

A Wemyss ware jug and basin set c1900, decorated with cabbage roses by Karel Nekola.
Wemyss ware was first produced in 1892 by Karel Nekola at the pottery of Robert Heron in Fife Scotland.  Nekola was an immigrant  Czech designer and decorator.  In 1932 the Fife pottery closed and moved to Devon where Nekola's son Joseph continued producing Wemyss ware at the Bovey Pottery  which closed in 1957.  Griselda Hill resurrected the ware in the 1980s, and in 1994 acquired the Wemyss ware trademark and continues to make similar pottery in the Scottish village of Ceres, Fife.

Above painting by Tessa Bennett.

Camper shoes, Chinese 18th century tankard, tulips.................... painting

This painting features a pair of Camper shoes of 2001.  These shoes were created in Mallorca the Spanish island in the Mediterranean, camper being the Catalan word for peasant.They  were    inspired by farmer footwear and steeped in island tradition. The firm  was started  in 1975.

2 French Dogs relax, Louis Georges and Jacques.

This is a painting of Louis Georges, a French miniature poodle, and Jacques a French standard dachshund.
Their intelligence and charm  will be featured  in a detective story that takes place in Paris,  to be published  in 2011.

2 Quinces, a lemon, and 2 apples

Remembering John Barry Prendergast. A composer of great talent, and pathos.

Organic vegetables

Tulips in English jug with polyanthus, thoughts of Spring

French fish, plate, tin, and vase

To continue the 'fish' theme, here is a painting.  Congratulations to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for all his hard work!

Three tomatoes, and half a tomato.

Painting by Tessa Bennett.

Pear and half a lemon