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Chapel resident Pete Jarvis has achieved his hat-trick in getting another watercolour into the Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition. Competition has become very stiff this year with a total of around 1100 entries and the judges selecting just 100 for exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. This year’s painting is entitled Hulk on the Itchen and portrays a rusting boat hull tied up on the bend in the river opposite St Denys in Southampton.

Pete took dozens of photographs over several visits to the riverside at different times of the day in order to get the right lighting and shadows: “It was just asking to be painted” Pete said, “The moment I happened upon the hull floating serenely alongside the west bank of the river I was hooked”. Pete can often be found with sketchbook in hand drawing from decaying and weathered architectural subjects in and around Southampton but very few end up as finished watercolours. “I was very pleased that the judges liked my subject matter and I am looking to producing similar work but in a looser style in future”.

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