Ham sits between Richmond and Kingston, a village of leafy lanes and riverside walks that still reads as countryside despite being well inside London's M25. Ham House, the seventeenth century riverside mansion with its formal gardens, anchors the place. The rest is meadow, towpath and the slow current of the Thames. Joshua's miniature is the view across the open ground inside Richmond Park toward the village. Soft tones, loose brushwork, distant trees lifted in a few decisive marks. The painting is small but the air around the subject is not: it carries the same quiet expansiveness the park itself does, scaled to a 10cm board. Oil on board, approximately 10cm by 10cm, signed by hand. Sold unframed.
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Ham sits between Richmond and Kingston, a village of leafy lanes and riverside walks that still reads as countryside despite being well inside London's M25. Ham House, the seventeenth century riverside mansion with its formal gardens, anchors the place. The rest is meadow, towpath and the slow current of the Thames. Joshua's miniature is the view across the open ground inside Richmond Park toward the village. Soft tones, loose brushwork, distant trees lifted in a few decisive marks. The painting is small but the air around the subject is not: it carries the same quiet expansiveness the park itself does, scaled to a 10cm board. Oil on board, approximately 10cm by 10cm, signed by hand. Sold unframed.
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.
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.
