Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
Kingston Riverside is the stretch of the Thames that runs through the centre of Kingston, where the river path widens and the bridges, boats and benches all catch the light at different angles through the day. Joshua's piece is a small, intimate take on it: soft brushstrokes, a warm and inviting palette, the kind of view you would actually stop and look at on a slow walk. What is unusual about this one is the support. The painting is on a repurposed found canvas that already carries its own hanging wiring, so the piece arrives ready to hang straight onto a nail. The found object becomes part of the work's story rather than a decision made later in the framing process. Joshua's other repurposed-support piece is the Canbury Gardens tray; both belong to the small thread of his catalogue that uses materials with prior lives. Oil on board over the repurposed canvas, approximately 15cm by 15cm, signed by hand.
Kingston Riverside is the stretch of the Thames that runs through the centre of Kingston, where the river path widens and the bridges, boats and benches all catch the light at different angles through the day. Joshua's piece is a small, intimate take on it: soft brushstrokes, a warm and inviting palette, the kind of view you would actually stop and look at on a slow walk. What is unusual about this one is the support. The painting is on a repurposed found canvas that already carries its own hanging wiring, so the piece arrives ready to hang straight onto a nail. The found object becomes part of the work's story rather than a decision made later in the framing process. Joshua's other repurposed-support piece is the Canbury Gardens tray; both belong to the small thread of his catalogue that uses materials with prior lives. Oil on board over the repurposed canvas, approximately 15cm by 15cm, signed by hand.
Joshua paints British rivers in oil, the Thames mostly, with a few weeks each year on the Solway coast. The light he chases is the light Constable chased: dusk along Pen Ponds, morning on the towpath, the moment the tide turns at Teddington Lock.
