by Cliff Baxendale | Aug 19, 2020 | Cliff Baxendale
This work is based on a Rembrandt etching which is about 5″ x 4″ in size. All the groupings of people explain why Christ is on the cross. Some of these people are in the light and a lot are in the darkness. Its a reminder of God’s love for us and...
by Cliff Baxendale | Aug 19, 2020 | Cliff Baxendale
The source of inspiration for this idea came from a TV programme about a family of rural potters at work in the middle East. As soon as I saw it Jeremiah’s visit to the potter’s house (Jeremiah 18 sprang to life). Jeremiah saw the clay marred in the hand...
by Cliff Baxendale | Aug 19, 2020 | Artists, Cliff Baxendale
In March 2003 my wife and I (Val) went to the Algarve for our Spring break. We had a timeshare apartment then, which Val had inherited from her parents. The weather that year was awful and for the first week and a half there were very high Spring tides. These battered...
by Cliff Baxendale | Aug 19, 2020 | Cliff Baxendale
This painting is based on a scene ‘Band of Brothers’ in the Ardenne in 1944. The US Rangers were dug in ready for what was later called ‘The Battle of the Bulge’. It was a cold winter morning. The light was fogging the trees and the men were...
by Cliff Baxendale | Aug 19, 2020 | Cliff Baxendale
I grew up playing in the woods. I love trees, their size, colours, textures of the bark, the leaf shapes and all the creatures that depend on them. Now I understand that woods can be very therapeutic. Walking in the woods does you good. This wood is a wild wood, an...
by Cliff Baxendale | Aug 19, 2020 | Cliff Baxendale
It looks like a wild place yet in it are beauties of new life. A snowdrop, an aconite and a celandine. All we have to do is go into the wood to SEE.
