NEW - Rising Light Three Cliffs Bay

Image size 4590mm x 5500mm.

Approx. Framed size with mount; 4790mm x 5800mms.

Price £89.50 (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

Another large impasto oil painting done entirely with pallette knives. Im

afraid Im getting too old to carry all the heavy gear around the cliffs!

NEW - Bathers near Mewslade

Image size 291mm x 437mm.

Approx Framed size with mount; 530mm x 700mms.

Price £58.00 (inc p&p)

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One of Gowers more inaccessible bays that can usually be relied upon to

be free of crowds. A long walk from the road but worth it for the

tranquility. Painted in waterclour on an August afternoon.

NEW - Towards Porteynon

Image size; 56 x 22 cms. 22 x 9 ins.

Approx Framed size with mount; 75 x 400 cms; 29 x 16 ins.

Price £56.00 (inc p&p)

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This Painted from the Horton side of the Bay, which is more tranquil than

Porteynon Bay itself. A soft day in September, where I had to shelter

from the rain showers. Thats my daughter and grandchild in the for

ground.

NEW Starlight Worm's Head.

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £39.00 (inc p&p)

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As I had struggled for a long time to depict the velvet black sky with its

dusting of stars when painting 'Starlight at Mumbles', I used the same

technique here to try and capture the magical lonliness of the Worm.

NEW Optimists

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £39.00 (inc p&p)

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This painting was done in the evening whilst watching three men fishing

off the rocks near Pennard. I didn't see them catch anything but they

seemed to be enjoying themselves, none the less.

Early Morning Three Cliffs

Image size; 56 x 22 cms. 22 x 9 ins.

Approx Framed size with mount; 75 x 400 cms; 29 x 16 ins.

Price £46.00 (inc p&p)

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This watercolour shows Three Cliffs Bay with the early morning tide

draining away to eventually reveal the stream which flows around the

foot of the cliffs and out to sea. The collie dog is the artist, R N

Banning's, own. Three Cliffs Bay is one of the most popular on the Gower.

April Morning Rhossili

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins Approx

framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

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This watercolour shows Rhosili with the wind in the southeast and a

falling tide. Rhosili is fresh and clean at this time of the year, a good

place for long slow walks combing the falling waterline. This watercolour

is by the artist R N Banning who has made his home in Mumbles, a village

at the entrance to the Gower Peninsular, South Wales.

Bank Holiday Caswell Point

Image size; 50 x 27 cms. 20 x 10.5 ins. Approx

framed size with mount; 72 x 49 cms. 28 x 20 ins.

Price £52.00 (inc p&p)

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Caswell is one of the Gower's most popular beaches; this painting

captures it on one of the busiest day of the year.

Cottages overlooking Porteynon

Image size 44 x 30cms. 17 x 12 ins.

Approx framed size with mount

Price £52.00 (inc p&p)

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I love the way these cottages hug the cliff in what is quite a desolate

yet beautiful part of Gower.

Dawn Three Cliffs Bay

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

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This watercolour of Three Cliffs was painted from watercolour studies

and drawings made on the beach by the artist, R N Banning. Six o'clock

in the morning in September is when the shadows and highlights

produced by the sun rising in the East (to the left of the painting)

bringing out the beauty of what is probably the most visited bay in the

Gower.

Early Morning Overlooking Pobbles

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins Approx

framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

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This breathtaking spot sums up the beauty of the Gower coastline.

Early Morning Pwll Du Bay

Image size; 56 x 22 cms. 22 x 9 ins.

Approx Framed size with mount; 75 x 400 cms; 29 x 16 ins.

Price £44.00 (inc p&p)

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The most magical and inaccessible of the Gower Bays, Pwll Du, is for me,

the most difficult of the bays to do justice to in a painting. The storm

beach, formed from the remains of quarrying in the eighteenth century,

means that few of its features can be seen from the seaward side. The

Beaufort Arms Pub, reputedly established in 1644, and the old

quarrymen's cottages are now homes but thankfully have not been

altered too much. The drawings for this composition were obtained from

the top of a tree on the opposite side of the bay, but I have to say, I

did the painting from the ground.

 

End of the Holidays Caswell

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

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This watercolour by the artist RN Banning was painted in early September

when the water is at its warmest and children take advantage of their

last few days of freedom before the school term begins. Caswell Bay is a

very popular family beach on the Gower Peninsular.

Evening Bishopston Valley

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

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This is how the artist, R N Banning, describes his work process. "Here

again I have tried to capture the magical Light effects of the Valley

leading down to Pwll Du. The light coming from above combines with the

light reflected from the sea beyond to produce the most wonderful

fairytale atmosphere."

First Light Caswell

Image size; 56 x 22 cms. 22 x 9 ins.

Approx Framed size with mount; 75 x 400 cms; 29 x 16 ins.

Price £44.00 (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

This is another out of season watercolour painting, by the artist R N

Banning, but the best light conditions are in May and September, when

there are few people about. Caswell Bay is easily accessible and full of

families and children in the summer, but here it is deserted. As with many

Gower bays, there is a stream, which flows across the sand at low tide

forming bands of water, which reflect the headland above.

June Morning Three Cliffs

Images sizes 280x460 mm / 11x18.5 inches

Approx Framed size, with Mount; 700 x 400 cms; 16 x 27 ins

Cost £40.00 (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

One of the Gower's most famous views. I love to work in pastels, they

give a magical warmth and depth to an image.

Last of the Summer Brandy Cove

Images sizes 250x560 mm / 10x22 inches

Approx Framed size, with mount, 47 x 76 cms; 30 x 18.5 ins.

Cost £56.00 (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

Small and intimate, Brandy Cove is a small bay, west of Caswell where

the amount of sand changes with the state of the tide and the strength

of the offshore currents. A couple of hundred yards off shore is a reef

where at low water; it is possible to stand on submerged rocks

surrounded by water twenty feet deep. Brandy Cove is one of the artist,

R N Banning's, favourite bays on Gower.

Late Afternoon West Cross

Image size; 56 x 22 cms. 22 x 9 ins.

Approx Framed size with mount; 75 x 400 cms; 29 x 16 ins.

Price £44.00 (inc p&p)

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The artist R N Banning says of this watercolour overlooking Swansea Bay,

"I saw this lovely evening light from my car and immediately went home

for my paints. Fortunately it lasted long enough for me to capture it. The

people I had to sketch and finish in the studio."

May Morning Rhossili

Image size; 56 x 22 cms. 22 x 9 ins.

Approx Framed size with mount; 75 x 400 cms; 29 x 16 ins.

Price £44.00 (inc p&p)

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I like to paint this area early in the year before there are any people

about. Although this is the longest beach on the Gower, with the

possible exception of the stretch from Bury Holmes to Whitford, and I

have never seen it crowded, there is something special about the

splendid proportions of the place, which is best appreciated in the

absence of people. Here, on a receding tide, the reflections in the wet

sand are at their best.

Overlooking Caswell

Image size; 54 x 28 cms; 21 x 11 ins.

Approx. Framed Size with mount; 73 x 49cms; 29 x 20 ins.

Price £48.00 (inc p&p)

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This viewpoint is a great spot to give a sense of the two halves of

Caswell Bay, cut in two as it is by a great promontory of rock, seen

through the filter of hazy summer light. This watercolour is by the artist

R N Banning who has made his home in Mumbles, a village at the

entrance to the Gower Peninsular, South Wales.

Oxwich Bay

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

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A watercolour showing the Oxwich Bay Hotel nestled under the cliff at

the end of this beautiful sweep of bay.

Reflections Great Tor

Images sizes 280x340 mm / 11.25x13.5 inches

Approx. Framed size with mount; 48 x 56 cms; 22 x 19 ins.

 

Price £44.00 (inc p&p)

New Size

Images sizes 456 x 555 mm

Approx. Framed size with mount; 476 x 575 cms

 

Price £TBC (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

 

This print is from an oil painting and is also available on archival quality canvas

at£48.00

I was fortunate enough to catch this magnificent headland at the

western end of Three Cliffs Bay, on a falling tide when the reflections of

the rock structure were caught in the wet sand. However it was not until

the following year that I managed to catch the same conditions and

paint the scene on canvas in oils using palette knives.

Reflections Three Cliffs

Image Size; 49 x 28 cms; 19 x 11 ins.

Approx Framed size with mount; 69 x 47 cms; 27 x 18 ins.

 

Price £52.00 (inc p&p)




New Size

Image Size; 392 x 550cms

Approx Framed size with mount; 412 x 570 cms

 

Price £TBC (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

This print is from an oil painting and is also available on archival quality canvas at

£66.00

The flood tide at Three Cliffs can make a mirror of the famous cliffs. Here

I painted the phenomena in oils using palette knives.

Spring Morning Rhossili

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

The westernmost point of the Gower Peninsular, the Worm is isolated

from the mainland by the tide but can be accessed for about two hours

each side of low water. The fields immediately inland are used to grow

market garden vegetables and graze sheep. Very often in early spring,

the horizon is barely discernable and there is a feeling of warm softness

perfect for watercolour painting. In winter it is storm swept and adopts a

totally different mood. This watercolour is by the artist R N Banning who

has made his home in Mumbles, a village at the entrance to the Gower

Peninsular, South Wales.

The Path to Pwll Du

Image size; 35.5 x 24.5 cms, 14 x 9.75 ins

Approx framed size with Mount; 58 x 44 cms. 23 x 17 ins.

Price £42.00 (inc p&p)

(Limited Edition of 500)

The stream, Pennard Pill, runs down the mystical valley feeding into Pwll

Du Bay. The path was used by smugglers in the eighteenth century and

there is a lead mine, with addits on both sides of the stream, reputed to

have been initiated by the Romans.