Frank Callaghan

Bellano Station, Northern Italy

Acrylic on Board. (27cm x 37.5cm). (Unframed) The small town of Bellano sits at the bottom of the mountains alonside Lake Como.The railway station, like most Italian stations, is full of grafitti, and neglected and run down. Despite this, rail travel is cheap and very effic...

Price: £195

Bexhill-on-Sea (1)

Pen over watercolour and wash, on Water Colour Paper (35.5cm x 25.4cm) I did several watercolour sketches around Bexhill, and have added a few to the web-site. This one was done at Cooden Bay looking toward Pevensey. It was a warm sunny day and quite windy, but the rain s...

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Bexhill-on-Sea (2)

Pen over Watercolour and wash, on watercolour paper (35.5cm x 24.4cm) (Unframed) This second view of Bexhill was painted facing the town from Cooden Bay. In the picture lies the house of television personality Graham Norton, whom I saw in an Italian restaurant the previo...

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Blakeney Quay

Acrylic on Board. (28.5cm x 40cm) (Unframed) Blakeney is one of my favourite places. I spent many happy hours there in my youth. It is at its best on a very cold and icy winter's day when the visiting waders have control of the salt marshes. This part of Norfolk is home to...

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Blakeney Quay, early morning, November

Acrylic on Board. (29.3cm x 40cm) (Unframed) This is the second view I have painted of Blakeney Quay. For this painting I moved my angle, sacrificing the river and the usual frontal view of the hotel and quayside buildings, in order to get a glimpse of the saltmarsh extendi...

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Bosham Harbour

Arcrylic on Board. (28.2cm x 38.0cm) (unframed) Bosham is a place that brings back fond memories and a good deal of nostalgia. It has some of the qualities of the East Anglian saltmarshes that were part of my childhood. I was attracted to the view across the marsh looking o...

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Bristol Pub

Acrylic on Board. (30.5cm x 39.9cm) (Unframed) I called into this Bristol pub for a pnt and a sandwich, and was fascinated by the atmosphere. It was what I would call a 'real' pub, and each customer was a character. I liked the light and the colours and I could not resist...

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Budleigh Salterton

Acrylic on Board. (Unframed) (40.5cm x 26.2cm) Budleigh Salterton, in Devon, holds particular memories for me. When I moved to Exeter in 1974 Budleigh was the first place I visited. It was on a Sunday in January, the day was mild, but the left overs of a three day strorm ...

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Cafe at Varenna

Acrylic on Board. (29.0cm x 38.7cm) (Unframed) This was about as typical a scene of the Italian Lakes as it was possible to find: 'The cafe by the water side'. It was like a parahrase for the place itself. Lake Como framed by cafe tables and an umbrella, but what made it mo...

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Christchurch Priory from Hengistbury

Acrylic on canvas () (Framed) This is a classic view across the flood plain looking at the Proiry. In Highcliffe Castle there is a large painting of an identical view, painted in the 1800's; a huge canvas and so quite unlike this picture in scale and detail. However, it mak...

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Cromarty, SCotland

Oil on Canvas (45.5cm x 35.3cm) (Unframed) Following on from the painting I did of the sunset, looking across The Solent, toward the Isle of Wight, I decided to seek out an old drawing from a visit to Scotland a few years ago. This was the basis for another excursion into...

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Derelict Norfolk Church (2)

Acrylic on Acrylic Board (40.4cm x 29.2cm) (Unframed) This is the second of three acrylic studies of old, crumbling Norfolk Churches. This one is only a few miles from the previous church study, and captures the same forlorn, desolate qualities that make this scene appeal...

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Derelict Norfolk Church (3)

Acrylic on Acrylic Board (40.3cm x 29.2cm). (Unframed) This painting completes the set of three, of old decaying Norfolk Churches. Viewers may identify this as the same church as the one in Picture 2, which it is, but viewed from a different angle. This is the most satisf...

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Fishing at Colico

Acrylic on Board. (28.5cm x 38.1cm)(unframed) Lake Como in Northern Italy has a light and scenery that is compulsive. When I saw these two men fishing, idly chatting away, not only did I envy them their serenity, but it made an image that I could not resist. (photo by www...

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Fishing on Great Yarmouth Beach in Winter

Oil on Canvas (45.8cm x 30.7cm) (Unframed). Great Yarmouth Beach remains one of my favourite places. Here in November, on a cold day, the sun was hazy and figures were sillouetted against the bright backdrop. The colours were unatural and in this paining I have tried to avo...

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Great Yarmouth Beach (2)

Oil on Canvas (45.8cm x 30.7cm) (Unframed) In this series of painitngs I have been trying something different. I enjoy painting oil on board as the firmness of board gives the brush a strong feel, and it encourages bold brush marks. I also enjoy painting on canvas, as the g...

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Hengistbury Head, Dorset

Oil on Canvas. (45.5cm x 35.5cm) (Unframed) I am regularly urged to paint more scenes local to where I live, so this is the first. Beach huts seem to have a universal appeal, and a beach scene is always popular, maybe because it heralds memories of sunny days and holidays...

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HMS Edinburgh entering Portsmouth Harbour

Oli on Canvas (Framed) I saw this scene as I stood on the quay of Portsmouth Harbour. The scene was a blue grey one and immediately attracted me. Ships share their grandeur with such stauesque items as steam engines. The tug added a spash of colour to this scene, which ma...

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Lisbon Cafe

Acrylic on Board. (29.7cm x 40.2cm) (Unframed) I love Lisbon and enjoy cafe scenes, so this composition, when I passed it, was immediately appealing. In this painting I have tried not to get too drawn into painting detail, and have tried to make the scene look busy, without...

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Lisbon street with tram

Acrylic on Board (40.5cm x 30.5cm) (Unframed) Lisbon is a terrific city. I was only there for the shortest of times, and visually tried to cram as much in as I was able. This is a place that needs serious revisiting, preferably with a studio to hand for a few days in orde...

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Milan Cathedral (1)

Acrylic on Board. (29.0cm x 38.2cm) (unframed) I was fascinated by the architectural spelndour of the Cathedral and also by the busy city atmosphere that surrounded it. I sought a view that put the Cathedral into this context, and that allowed me not to be bogged down by th...

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MIlan Cathedral (2)

Acrylic on Board. (29.6cm x 37.5cm)(unframed) I had already seen the first image of the Cathedral that had fascinated me, but then I realised that there was so much more to include. By moving across the pathways and also by moving backwards, I was able to include the busy c...

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Millersford Bottom. New Forest

Oil on Canvas (50.6cm X 38.2cm) (Unframed) Despite living for over 20 years in the midst of The New Forest, surrounded as I am by heathland and horses, I have assiduoulsy avoided painting them. I am not sure why, other than the fact I have always been drawn to coastal lands...

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Old Fishing Boat. Hastings-on-Sea

Pen over water colour and wash on water colour paper. (35.5cm x 25.4cm) I recently spent a few days around Bexhill and Hastings, building up some material for making into paintings later on. I used water colour and pen to do this, as it makes me observe more closely and g...

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Petersfield Churchyard

Oil on Canvas (20 inch x 30 inch) (Unframed) I have spent hours on this canvas; much longer than I normally take. It was the fascination of all the branches and twigs that absorbed me, and by the time I completed the picture, I was fed up with it. However, this is the produ...

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Salisbury Cathedral Green

Acrylic on Board. (21.0cm x 29.1cm) (Unframed) Salisbury is another of those architypical English towns whose buildings and images define the place where we live. The view of the Cathedral has become an icon that represents England and all things English. I prefer this view...

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South Downs view

Acrylic on Canvas (50.6cm x 38.2cm) (Unframed) This is a view I recorded several years ago, and returned to as part of putting together a collection of coastal landscapes for a forthcoming exhibition. The South Downs offers English rural landscapes of the very best, varyi...

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St. Peter's Church. Bexhill-on-Sea

Pen over Watercolour and wash, on watercolour paper (35.5cm x 24.4cm) (Unframed) The afternoon I painted this church interior, it was raining steadily. Still very warm, it was a real summer's rain, and I retreated to the church in order to stay dry. I originally had no in...

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Still LIfe with Bottle

Oil on Canvas (40cm x 40cm) (Unframed) OK, it's not a landscape, but this is the first still life I have painted in many a year, and there is as yet, no section on the website to accomodate it. Maybe if I do a few more I will add one. In selecting items for the group, which...

Price: £300

Storm clouds over Muddeford, Dorset

Oil on Canvas (45.5cm x 35.5cm) (Unframed) I am much happier with this painting than the last one of Hengitsbury. I was concerned before painting it, of the large black building, so prominant in the composition. There is little I could do about it. It is known locally as ...

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Street Cafe, Cheltenham

Acrylic on Acrylic paper. (28.6cm x 37.9cm) (Framed) The precinct, with its icon telephone kiosks made an image that I wanted to capture. The redness of the kiosks stood out against the trees, and the architecture of the cafe furniture caught this most Englsh town trying to...

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Street scene, Oxford

Acrylic on Board. (21.1cm x 29.6cm) (Unframed) Oxford on an autumnal afternoon has an atmosphere all of its own. As I walked by the end of this street, adjacent to Braenose College, the composition jumped out at me, sealed off as it was by the far end of the street and with...

Price: £95

Sunset on The Solent

Oil on Canvas. (40cm x 40cm) (Unframed) This view looking over toward The Isle of Wight at sunset was sketched a long time ago. I had been thinking about doing another Island scene, maybe to be included in a forthcoming exhibition, but decided that I needed to be more exp...

Price: £450

Tree by the Moselle River

Acrylic on Acrylic Board (29.7cm x 40.5cm) (Unframed) I was relaxing on a leisurely river-boat cruise whilst on holiday in Germany, and as we approached a bend in the river, there appeared into view this maginificent tree. I could see the painting immediately. The tree's ...

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Warwickshire Countryside (1)

Acrylic on Board. (29.3cm x 40.4cm) (Unframed) I am beginning a series of pictures of Warwickshire, based on studies I did when I visited the area last spring. I arrived during a blizzard, and whilst there also encountered some very cold days and some driving rain, but mo...

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Warwickshire Countryside (2)

Acrylic on Acrylic Board (29.7cm x 40.6cm) (Unframed) This is the second picture of countryside around Shepton Bellinger in Warwickshire. This field with cows was nestled at the end of the lane adjacent to the excellent house where I was staying: The Old Rectory in Shepto...

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Wells-next-the-sea beach

Acrylic on Acrylic Paper. (40cm x 28.8 cm) (Framed) Wells next the sea is another place that lives on in my memory from my younger days. As a young man I drove a dray lorry along the North Norfolk coast each Friday, and Wells was a regular stop for a cup of tea and a bun in...

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Beach Huts at Hengistbury Head, Dorset. (2)

Oil on Canvas (45.5cm x 35.5cm) (Unframed) Honesty is always best. As the painter, I dislike this painting immensley. It's the second time I have attempted the composition. The first time I worked it in acrylic, this time in oils. This is marginally better, but it feels to ...

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Cheltenham cafe

Acrylic on Board. (28.5cm x 41.2cm) (Unframed) Cafes and bars often make interesting subjects. People caught unawares, and especially in rooms where the light fights to make itself known. This Italian cafe in Cheltenham was once a bulding of some stature, and something of i...

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Exeter Cathedral Square

Acrylic on Board. (39cm x 29cm). (Unframed). Exeter is another one of those wondeful English Cities that blends modernism with history. The Cathedral square was the first place I went to when I visited Exeter for the very first time. It was in 1972, and I had just arrived f...

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Great Yarmouth Beach (3)

Oil on Canvas (45.8cm x 30.7cm) (Unframed) THIS PAINTING HAS BEEN SELECTED AND IS EXHIBITED IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION 2010 This is the final painting in this set of three. I was particularly pleased with the foreground and the application of paint with a p...

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Island of Madelena

Acrylic on Canvas (80.2 cm x 30.5 cm) (Unframed) This is a beautiful and serene place. I visited it in early spring before the summer heat took hold, but the colours and light of the Mediterrnean was still instilled into every aspect of the landscape. I made a picture of...

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Poppy in vase

Acrylic on Box Canvas (12.7cm x 25.2cm) (Unframed) This quick painting of a poppy was prompted by a comment from a person who said that poppies were her favourite flower. Voila!!...

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Sailing off Aldeburgh

Oil on Canvas. (65.0cm x 65.0cm) (Unframed) Wandering about Aldeburgh and its surrounds is one of my favourite pastimes. At any time of the year it has a thousand views to paint. The old town, the shingle beach, the now quite famous beach huts and the fishing boats hauled ...

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Wells-next-the-sea

Acrylic on Board. (38.5cm x 31cm) (Unframed) Wells sits on the North Norfolk coast facing the North Sea. It stands firm against the cold winter winds that blow in from Russia, and over the years has overcome serious flooding and gale damage, not least of all in 1953. As a c...

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Windmills towards Dungeness from Rye

Acrylic on Board (29.3 cm x 40.5 cm) (Unframed) This view acrioss the floodplain and the distant misty tones of blue/grey reminded in many ways of my favourite Norfolk style of landscape. I love these statuesque creatures that stand bold and sculptural against the wide sk...

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