Please excuse my absence of some time, as I have been again to the UK to see my elderly mother and make plans for her continuing care at home. I’m off again in November to continue with this, and wanted to send you a painting completed a while back, when the weather was still sunny and wintry storms and lashing rain seemed like a distant memory. Well, they are back now with a vengeance!
It’s a scene from the Casa Alentejo in Lisbon, full of Moorish architecture and tiles. For the upper tiles I made a stencil, repeating the design without trying to represent it with much realism. The lower tiles are also made by another stencil or sorts. I feel the painting brings out some less visible magic inherent in the building. The Moorish tiles always amaze me in that I find it hard to imagine how they were designed, but I guess it is just down to geometry and a lot of imagination.
The painting is on display at Fine and Country in Carvoeiro currently.
This painting has a larger and similar version coming up… soon I hope.
I’ve decided to show you the watercolour, too. Two very different looking paintings, in different media.
The painting is part of my preparation for a commissioned piece, as well as a painting in its own right.
It’s a view from a location on Foia
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Lagos front
It was a slightly sunny day at the end of January and I decided it would do me good to see the sea and breathe some different air. It was pretty cold in Lagos as well, and the sketch had to be quick, but I painted in the studio from a back up photograph as…
Winter rain, Monchique
A seasonal and topical painting, this one pays tribute to the lengthy period of challenging weather that we have been experiencing here. Storms and more storms… Being woken suddenly by thunder so close it might as well be in your sleeping space. Torrents of water running down the streets, down the beams and into light…
New year, new work…
Hello and welcome to my first newsletter of 2026! I hope you are in good form after the festivities. Now it’s time to get down to the business of shaking up our old habits and regimes which we may have pushed to their limits lately. As you may remember, I visited Monet’s garden in Giverny…
Paintings by Liz Allen 