Weymouth Bay

Richard won first prize with this work for the best oil painting in the inaugural year of the Hunting Art Prize (1981). Awarded by the Hunting Group.

This shows Dad’s mastery at suggesting large stretches of sea, keeping the eye occupied with its life and the vibrating quality of slight changes over its surface. The majority of the picture surface is ‘empty’ but never dull. The feeling of space is immense. The figures on the right are tiny in this immensity and there are some of his favourite images: an umbrella and someone bending down to a dog. The sense of a bay is created by the very subtle curve down of the beach on the horizon.

Richard was a regular visitor to Weymouth, staying with relatives there. So it is not surprising that there are a few of his paintings titled 'Weymouth Bay'.

Our apologies if any of the details have got mixed up between them. Let us know.

Weymouth Bay (1922) early watercolour

Weymouth Bay (c1935) exhibited at the Redfern Gallery in 1935, no image

Weymouth Bay (1972) a moody panorama looking out to sea

Weymouth Bay (1979) another panorama looking across the bay towards the town

Weymouth Bay (1980) this one

Weymouth Bay (c1981) a little blue gem