watercolours overlooking the last outpost in the british empire

Posted by Stephen Quirke on September 1, 2009 under Art, bushveld, en plein air, landscape, painting, Pietermaritzburg, watercolor, watercolour | 12 Comments to Read

Today after a very exciting meeting with a new possible client I came back to Pietermaritzburg and, after a snooze went up a hill overlooking the valley with my brother in law, Tim.  Because he dawdled so much the sun was setting when we got there but we each had time for a couple of paintings.  Here are mine:

then as the light faded I sat under the trees in the foreground and did this one:

And that was that -

Pietermaritzburg is more british than Big Ben – heh heh