Leo Davey
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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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