The excitement and privilege of owning an original painting
Peronel Barnes is a well-known water colourist. She exhibits regularly in Oxfordshire and London, including at the Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition held at the Bankside Gallery in London. She spends as much time as she can out walking in the countryside or by the sea, watching the light. “My painting is about creation, nature, the world. The appreciation of space, light and landscape. For me, nature is the work and glory of the creator. That is what I wish to portray,” she says.

What is a watercolour, how do you choose one and why should you buy?
Watercolours are translucent, water-based paints, which allow the light to shine through and reflect off the pigment. Peronel uses a technique of watercolour painting, based on the transparent laying of washes, which catches the light from the paper on which she paints and uses it as foil to the beauty and colour of the shapes she conjures into her art.

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