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Open studio: Sat 1 Nov, 11:00–17:00, 3 Harrow Quay (sample)

(555) 014-2200

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Oil paintings of the estuary, its tides and the rooms beside it

Iris Calder (sample) paints the tide line, the mudflats and the kitchen table from a studio above Harrow Quay. Originals are for sale from the studio, and commissions open twice a year.

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Painting in thick strokes of ultramarine, cobalt and white like a breaking wave

1

Painting of pink garden roses in a white jug with a painted pattern

2

Painting in bands of peach sky, deep blue water and a strip of green shore

3

Close view of a painting in ochre and olive with heavy palette-knife texture

4

Painting in flat layers of soft violet blue

5

1 m

On the studio wall in October (sample). Hung on a 145 cm centre line and drawn to scale.

1

Spring tide

Oil on linen, 2025
120 × 90 cm

Sold

2

White jug with garden roses

Oil on board, 2024
40 × 50 cm

$1,400

3

Low water, evening

Oil on linen, 2025
70 × 90 cm

$2,600

4

Mudflat, ochre

Oil on gessoed board, 2025
30 × 30 cm

$650

5

Blue hour, the channel

Oil on linen, 2024
75 × 50 cm

$2,100

Room sheet. A red dot means the painting has sold. Example prices, unframed.

Available paintings

Each painting is shown on the same square of wall, a metre across, so you can see its real size against the others. Prices are for the original, unframed.

Painting in bands of peach sky, deep blue water and a strip of green shore

Low water, evening

Oil on linen, 2025
70 × 90 cm

$2,600

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Painting of pink garden roses in a white jug with a painted pattern

White jug with garden roses

Oil on board, 2024
40 × 50 cm

$1,400

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Painting in flat layers of soft violet blue

Blue hour, the channel

Oil on linen, 2024
75 × 50 cm

$2,100

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Painting of red and green boat shapes on orange water under a blue sky

Boats at Harrow Quay

Oil on linen, 2023
70 × 50 cm

$1,900

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Painting in blocks of yellow ochre and red with a scraped texture

Stubble field, August

Oil on board, 2024
80 × 60 cm

$2,300

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Close view of a painting in ochre and olive with heavy palette-knife texture

Mudflat, ochre

Oil on gessoed board, 2025
30 × 30 cm

$650

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Example prices. Paintings can be reserved for seven days while you decide.

All paintings

Three series, one stretch of coast

Most paintings belong to a series that runs for years. Each starts outdoors and is finished in the studio.

Tide

The estuary at low water, painted from the sea wall at Harrow in the hour either side of the turn.

Since 2019, 34 paintings

See the series

Rooms

Still lifes from the kitchen table under the studio: jugs, cut flowers and the light from one north window.

Since 2021, 18 paintings

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Fields

The farmland inland from the coast, after harvest and in the first frost.

Since 2022, 12 paintings

See the series

Numbers of paintings (sample).

A painter seen from behind working on a large canvas in a bright studio

Painted outdoors, finished in the studio

Small boards are painted on the sea wall in one sitting. The large canvases are built from them in the studio, over weeks, in thin layers.

The studio is one long room above the boatyard at 3 Harrow Quay, with a north window and space to step back from a two-metre canvas.

Ground

Linen, two coats of gesso

Paint

Oils, earth colours and Prussian blue

Outdoor boards

30 × 30 cm, gessoed birch

About the studio

Commissions, drawn to size

A commission starts with the wall it will hang on. The four standard sizes below are drawn to scale; other sizes are possible.

Study

30 × 40 cm

$650

Two to three weeks

Small

50 × 60 cm

$1,400

Six weeks

Medium

80 × 100 cm

$2,900

Eight to ten weeks

Large

120 × 150 cm

$4,800

Twelve weeks

Example prices, unframed, including three colour studies. Commissions open in January and July.

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How a commission works

From the first conversation to the painting on your wall in four steps.

1

Talk about the wall

Send a photo of the room, or Iris visits if you live within an hour of Springfield (sample). You agree a size and a subject.

2

Three colour studies

Small oil studies on board show three ways the painting could go. You choose one and keep it.

3

The painting

Painted in the studio over six to twelve weeks. You get photos at the halfway point.

4

Delivery and hanging

Delivered by hand within 50 miles and hung on your wall, or crated and shipped.

Open studio days

The studio is open to everyone on the first Saturday of the month. Come up the outside stairs at the boatyard; no booking needed.

3 Harrow Quay, Springfield (sample)
First floor, outside stairs. Step-free visits by arrangement.

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Sat 1 Nov

Open studio

New Tide paintings on the wall

11:00–17:00

Sat 6 Dec

Winter open studio

Small studies and framed boards

11:00–19:00

Sat 3 Jan

Open studio

Commission list opens

11:00–17:00

Dates (sample).

Exhibitions

Where to see the paintings in person this season.

8–30 Nov

Harbour Light

Group show, Quay Gallery, Springfield

Six Tide paintings

14–17 Feb

Coastal Art Fair

Stand 21, Riverside Hall, Northgate

Small studies

Apr–May

Low Water

Solo show, Old Granary Gallery, Eastfield

New work

Exhibitions (sample).

Past exhibitions

Studio notes

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Open studio: Sat 1 Nov, 11:00–17:00, 3 Harrow Quay (sample)

(555) 014-2200

[email protected]

Ask about a painting