Lynmouth Oil
I heard about the exploits of the ‘Devon 11’ after their first outing in April, and intrigued, went along to their very entertaining post event exhibition at Paul Kenton’s studio.
Steve Pleydell-Pearce, a prolific outdoors painter, or if you’ll excuse my French – ‘plein air’ painter, had gathered together a collection of fellow surfers, painters and scallywags for a weekend of painting with a bit of good food and beer thrown in.
One of the group – Richard Gregory, made this delightful film about the event…
The DEVON 11 from wavedreamer on Vimeo.
I was fortunate enough after the event, to be invited to join in on the next event. There was only one problem. I’d never painted in oils before; and I was overawed by the abilities of the group.
But, after ‘having a word’ with myself many times over the next few months, I found myself awkwardly putting up my new unmarked easel overlooking Lynmouth Harbour, late on a Friday afternoon, amongst the Devon 11, holidaymakers and screeching seagulls.
On the Friday I managed to daub some paint on a canvas, spread it around a bit, get some handy tips from Steve PP and then it was down to the Rising Sun for a pint. But at least I had got started and on Saturday, under a drizzly sky, I managed to get the painting above completed.
I was stoked.
howiecobb 
yo bruv, well proud of your oily squiggles!