Leo Davey
New Prints - Perfect Gifts for Xmas
Over the past few months, since late September, I’ve been working on a hugely varied number of works. From a couple of large, very...
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Leo Davey
Sep 222 min read
Online Exhibition - Leo and Andy Davey - Somerset Art Weeks 2024
For Art Weeks this year I was going to try something different. Collections of seasonal plants and flowers, carefully arranged with...
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Leo Davey
Jun 184 min read
As the Sun Rises and Sets in West Somerset
Life moves on. There have been quite a few sunsets and therefore sunrises since my last blog. I do mean to post more often but I must say...
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Leo Davey
Dec 10, 20232 min read
NEW Prints and Paintings for Xmas
I've had a busy old year, painting walls and ceilings at home and landscapes and birds in the studio. It's been a productive time with...
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Leo Davey
Sep 16, 20232 min read
Swan-frontation and Other Paintings.
Somerset Art Weeks is upon us again and I've only managed to do 1 other blog since the last Art Weeks. Oh well, must try harder this...
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Leo Davey
Nov 22, 20222 min read
NEW Paintings for Xmas
What a wonderful time of year to be a landscape painter! Over the past few months I have been beavering away in the studio producing a...
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Leo Davey
Oct 1, 20222 min read
My Exhibition - Somerset Art Weeks 22.
What a year!! A year of juggling work time and family time (which family time won), endless camping, dipping in and out of wild water and...
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Leo Davey
Mar 21, 20221 min read
I said that my previous book wouldn't be my last!
It's only been 5 months since I launched my first book "Leo Davey Paintings 2010 - 2020". If you're not familiar with it, it was cross...
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Leo Davey
Nov 25, 20211 min read
My First Book, But Definitely Not My Last.
Over the years I have painted 100s of watercolours and oils. Pretty much all are photographed and digitally saved. Some exist as cards...
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Leo Davey
Sep 20, 20212 min read
Are these the best landscape paintings I've done?
I'm now in my 11th year working as a full time artist. Am I tiring of painting, feeling the strain of repetition and getting bored of the...
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Leo Davey
Feb 9, 20214 min read
Finally. My Jigsaw Puzzle "Way Up High - Birds of the World" is ready!
After weeks of research, hours of planning and months of painting, my rainbow of birds jigsaw puzzle is now available to buy. You can...
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Leo Davey
Nov 22, 20203 min read
Immersed in a Landscape. Capturing an Essence.
I remember as a child watching my father painting a watercolour of the headland off Wild Pear Beach near Combe Martin in Devon. Observing...
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Leo Davey
Nov 17, 20203 min read
Birds of the World - 12 years of painting "Birds in Boxes" watercolours
Since 2008 I have worked on numerous Birds in Boxes paintings. They were inspired by Vicomte Alexandre Isidore Leroy de Barde, a...
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Leo Davey
Sep 24, 20201 min read
Somerset Arts Week - but not as we know it!
Somerset Art Weeks, the most important event of the calendar for many Somerset artists, has now officially started...
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Leo Davey
Sep 26, 20193 min read
Why Somerset Art Weeks Works
See the 2020 collection here! Somerset Art Weeks is brilliant. In fact, if it wasn't for Somerset Art Weeks, I wouldn't have become a...
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Leo Davey
Sep 5, 20193 min read
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2019
Every year I enter a number of painting competitions. I do this for a variety of reasons. It’s a platform, an excuse to attempt something...
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Leo Davey
Mar 19, 20192 min read
Kingfishers
There are particular times that you see a kingfisher that are just breath taking. You might have seen one on a dull day and wonder what...
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Leo Davey
Mar 1, 20191 min read
Website Goes Live!
Thanks so much for everyone's help and input over the last week or so. The early feedback from 'sneaky peekers' was invaluable. More...
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Leo Davey
Feb 23, 20191 min read
New Website Sneaky Preview
Hello there! If you're reading this it's because you've been specially chosen to have a sneak preview of my new website. Thanks so much...
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Leo Davey
Jan 10, 20191 min read
Hi I'm Leo Davey!
As a full time artist I’ve always got something on the go. Maybe a commission, a series of paintings for exhibition, an experimental test...
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