It can take a painter to make you realise how good the area looks
The so-called summer ‘silly season’ is upon us, when the media reportedly struggle to find newsworthy leads, airports and ports are full to capacity and holidays are in full swing. Curiously, our 19th Century ancestors knew this period as ‘cucumber time’; when work was slack and cucumbers were growing well.
In response to the season, I thought I’d focus on five local watercolour paintings that I purchased at an Oxhey Village Environment Group Summer Fayre in the late 1990s; the first time that an art exhibition was held at the popular annual event. It was OVEG’s second venture into art; the first being the highly successful Oxhey Exhibition of Creative Arts in November 1989.
If you’re sitting comfortably, let’s begin with Oxhey Village Green: the site of OVEG’s Summer Fayre. Well-known artist Peter Whitworth, who was then a near neighbour of my parents in Wilcot Avenue, Oxhey, captured the scene in watercolour in 1990. Peter chose an unusual perspective. He painted from Attenborough’s fields with the three majestic poplar trees as focal points, through which the lower part of Oxhey Village Green and the side of 80 Lower Paddock Road are visible.
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