This is the painting that pins down Joshua's home stretch of the Thames. Kingston Bridge in the foreground, the river curling away toward Hampton Court in the distance, the architecture of the bridge holding the composition together while the water and the sky do the atmospheric work. Hampton Court anchors this stretch of the river in English history. The bridge anchors it in everyday life. Joshua paints both at once: a working piece of riverside infrastructure that also happens to be one of the more romantic views in south-west London. The layering is patient, the palette soft, the eighteenth century lineage visible in how he treats light on water. Oil on panel, approximately 30cm by 40cm. Signed by hand, sold unframed. Made with traditional techniques designed to last a lifetime.
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This is the painting that pins down Joshua's home stretch of the Thames. Kingston Bridge in the foreground, the river curling away toward Hampton Court in the distance, the architecture of the bridge holding the composition together while the water and the sky do the atmospheric work. Hampton Court anchors this stretch of the river in English history. The bridge anchors it in everyday life. Joshua paints both at once: a working piece of riverside infrastructure that also happens to be one of the more romantic views in south-west London. The layering is patient, the palette soft, the eighteenth century lineage visible in how he treats light on water. Oil on panel, approximately 30cm by 40cm. Signed by hand, sold unframed. Made with traditional techniques designed to last a lifetime.
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.
