View from the Cotswold Hills near Birdlip, Gloucestershire

This watercolour by V A Wright shows a perspective that will be familiar to Crickley diggers from standing on the top of the hill and looking north. This painting complements the one that was posted here in January. The first one must have been painted from a spot to the east of the trees on the right.  This series, as Dr Ferris remarked on a recent stay at the Albergo Parker "is not exactly great art, but it has a certain charm."  True of many of us, Dr Ferris, true of many of us.

V A Wright: The Cotswolds, Crickley Hill, Birdlip, Gloucestershire

Time for another of V A Wright's watercolours of Gloucestershire, this time of Crickley itself. Clearly one of the same series the first of which I posted here a few weeks ago. I think they're rather pretty and peaceful.

An introduction to the watercolours of V. A. Wright

Dr Ferris has now turned me into a postcard collector: a little judicious hunting around on eBay after Iain's tipoff the other day has resulted in a steady series of hesitant rattlings at the letterbox, rustlings on the way through, followed by gentle cloppings onto the hallway tiles at the Albergo Parker.  Postcards of Gloucestershire are now arriving from as far away as Malaga.  

It is clear from my brief researches and purchases that there was a watercolourist - probably before the Second World War from the font style and card design - called V. A. Wright (sex unknown to me as yet) whose easel was set up fairly regularly round Crickley, Barrow Wake & Birdlip.  Crickley aficionados will recognise the slightly different perspective offered from Birdlip.