Peter Bowen Art

Peter Bowen watercolour artist North Curry Cricket Club by Peter Bowen Cricket has been played off and on in North Curry for well over a century on different fields around the Parish. However it is the Bird In Hand public house that is the spiritual home of North Curry cricket. The present team has been playing together since 1994 when they rolled out a bumpy square on the village Playing Fields and entertained such clubs as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra C.C. and a rather bemused Kent League team from Eridge. A conflict of interests at the Playing Fields with the village football club led to the team upping stumps to Taunton in 1996, but North Curry C. C. are ambitious and motivated and became a Somerset League Club in 2000 gaining promotion to Division 5 in 2003. The club excels at indoor cricket winning 3 league titles in the Somerset County Cricket Club’s indoor leagues and singing, always being in great voice when Somerset are at a Lords final. One day soon the club will retur...

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The Welsh Highland Railway (Caernarfon) The journey begins behind the most powerful 2' (two foot) gauge steam locomotives in the world through the fabulous scenery of the Snowdonia National Park. The railway runs from alongside the awe-inspiring Caernarfon Castle, snaking around seemingly impossible bends, up hard gradients and around the foothills of Snowdon to arrive at Rhyd Ddu, about 12 miles from Caernarfon and high up in the Snowdonian mountains. The railway links to some tremendous walks too, not least the Snowdon Ranger and Rhyd Ddu paths up Snowdon or the Nantlle Ridge or Mynydd Mawr walks from Rhyd Ddu. There are excellent real-ale pubs at Waunfawr and Rhyd Ddu, and the Lôn Eifon cycleway runs alongside the railway from Caernarfon to Dinas. Rhyd Ddu is only the half-way point of this phenomenal railway project. Work has already started to complete the railway through to Porthmadog via Beddgelert and the famous Aberglaslyn Pass. At Porthmadog, the Welsh Highland Railway (W...

Driving through the Somerset countryside one day, this scene was spotted, a collection of farm buildings quite grey and drab in colour and the white clean wash hanging out to dry. Washing lines full of clothes drying in the wind feature strongly in many of the artist’s works and provide an almost endless source of imaginative works.

Tetbury, Gloucestershire is a haven for antiques enthusiasts. With over 30 antique shops, the town centre has earned an international reputation. At the centre of the town is the famous Great Market House, which was built in 1665 and features an impressive illuminated clock installed in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. The dolphins, which have become Tetbury's emblem adorn the weather vane. This limited edition print is one of only 250 prints worldwide.