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Darren
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South Norfolk artist. 🏳️‍🌈 Happily married. I’m vegetarian and an avid cook, reader of horror, and I love a good movie night. No AI ‘art’ here. He/Him.
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In an effort to post more that once every month(+/-) 😜here’s a commissioned 60th birthday gift that I’ve just finished 🤞🏼the recipient isn’t on socials. Acrylic on canvas board 10x10cm. #ArtYear #Suffolk #BritishCountryside #AcrylicPainting #Romantic #BlueSkyArt
A 10 by 10 cm acrylic painting of a large white house in the Suffolk countryside. The painting has a end of summer feel/style and the sky has bright blue splashes and early evening pinks casting colour over the building Image of a small painting next to a paint brush and palette to give a sense of size. A 10 by 10 cm acrylic painting of a large white house in the Suffolk countryside. The painting has a end of summer feel/style and the sky has bright blue splashes and early evening pinks casting colour over the building
July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I’m still working on my little sketch ideas. Here’s the latest canvas board version that’s still in progress.

#ArtYear #Ink #Drawing #Suffolk #Walberswick #Dunwich ##Spooky #Forest #Trees #CanvasBoard #BlueSkyArt
A black on white ink drawing of a large tree in the foreground, to the left of a country track that winds back to the centre of the horizon. This is a drawing of a wooded area with rolling hills to each side of the track. The style is linear and high contrast in tones.
July 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Here are some details from a larger acrylic painting of daisies #whistpr #ArtYear #Daisies
A close up from a large acrylic painting of daisies. The background is blue/teal and the white daisy petals are accented in pinks and green. The bright orange centres of the flowers create a loose daisy chain line across the painting A close up from a large acrylic painting of daisies. The background is blue/teal and the white daisy petals are accented in pinks and green. There are three close to together flowers in this image. There are bright orange centres to each of the flowers which sit in the bottom left of the image A close up from a large acrylic painting of daisies. The background is blue/teal and the white daisy petals are accented in pinks and green. The main image has a prominent full daisy head with another behind it to the left A close up from a large acrylic painting of daisies. The background is blue/teal and the white daisy petals are accented in pinks and green. The bright orange centres of the flowers create a loose daisy chain line across the painting
May 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Obviously I seem to shy away from the Internet, but I’m still here, and I’ve just started using my sketchbook ideas for new projects. This is an ink drawing/painting on 10x10cm canvas board. It’s inspired by my favourite walk from Dunwich to Walberswick in Suffolk. #BlueSkyArt #InkDrawing #Miniature
May 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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We walked by the pine woods in Wells-Next-The-Sea and Holkham yesterday in North Norfolk. Here’s a little Procreate sketch to mark the day! #ProcreateArtist #digitalsketch #NoAI #Springtime #NorthNorfolkCoastalPath #HolkhamEstate
A colourful digital sketch using Procreate. Landscape in sizing, the palette is bottle green through to sandy reds and creams. The pine forest is ahead with a sandy path in the foreground. There are splashes of bright blue, white and grey as you glimpse the sky through the treetops.
April 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Here’s a little acrylic sketch I made last summer. It’s on a blank beer mat and as I have hundreds more of these beer mats, maybe I should do more! This is a beach scene using reference from photos I took on Naxos. #BlueSkyMonday #artist #acrylicpainting #seascape #Greece #Naxos
A small acrylic painting, painted on a beer mat is sitting on a drawing board. The painting has a swirling blue and white sky above a blue and green sea lapping on a sandy shore.
April 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Here’s one I finished earlier! It took a wildly different journey than I’d anticipated and I love it. It’s giving me a 1960s circus forest vibe 🤣 #horrorcircus #stripes #thehousethatjackbuilt #studiopen #sketchbook #workinprogress #blueskyart
This ink drawing has lines of closely packed trees, a hill that slopes up to the right and a wide track sweeping towards you. Mostly stylised with patterns of stripes.
April 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Seems that I’ve swerved the Internet for a bit! I’m still working on my tree sketches which will one day end up as reference for future projects. On this arty Friday, I wanted to share them midway through. I love the simplicity of the lines! #art #fridayinspiration #blueskyart #woodland #creator
An open sketchbook with 2 square sketches one above the other on the open page. Both drawings are black ink and of treescapes. The top picture is simple and linear and has the outline of 7 trees atop an undulating foreground. The bottom drawing has lines of closely packed trees, a hill that slopes up to the right and a wide track sweeping towards you.
April 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Here’s another finished page of my treescapes. Each drawing seems to push my technique. So obviously I’m looking forward to the next one! #art #illustration #sketchbook #artist #wip #penandink #woodland #britishcountryside #springequinox
The right hand side of an open sketchbook shows 2 square illustrations on the page, one above the other. In the centre creases of the book there is a yellow book mark ribbon and an art studio pen. The illustrations are pen and ink and linear in a graphic style. They both depict images of trees and scrubland. The top picture being of a more dense forest scape with uneven sloping ground, the bottom picture being lighter in tone with many bright trunks packed in the forest. The ground slopes toward you with linear sweeping pen lines.
March 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I’m definitely leaning into my fascination of trees! Here’s my latest 7x7cm ink square sketch. This is a reworked idea from a much larger pen and ink drawing I did a couple of years ago. It’s good to feel the energy again, just like I felt in the first drawing. #art #blueskyartist #inkdrawing
A photograph of an open sketch book with a square black and white ink drawing of trees and forest floor, there is a pattern of line marks that make up the drawing which provides a sense of uncomfortable perspective. There is another square below this drawing which is blank.
March 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Another inky square added… time to move on to the next one and turn the page. This image is inspired by a winter walk from Walberswick to Blythburgh in Suffolk. #Blueskyart #sketchbook #artist #Walberswick #Blythburgh
An open sketchbook with two square ink drawings, one above the other. The top square is an illustration of a swirling body of water with light and dark fighting on the ripples. The bottom drawing is of a body of water next to a river bank walkway. The walkway has two dark leafless trees straddling the pathway.
March 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I thought I’d join in for #BlueSkyMonday with a 10x10cm acrylic painting of a small church in Naxos, Greece. Happy Monday! #artistsofbluesky #Art
A small acrylic painting on canvas board, 10x10cm showing a cloudless Greek blue sky. A small church and an olive tree cut into the skyline, and they sit at the top of a slow hill made of green/brown bushes and sand.
March 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Todays ink sketch of dark waters got a bit smudged as I went with the flow (pun intended) and turned the page round as I inked
A sketchbook open with a small square black ink drawing. The drawing has a linear carved feel as it tries to depict the light and flow of of swirls and ripples on dark water.
March 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I’ve been thinking about my daffodils paintings for a while. They’ve been on pause/for sale and on pause again as I can’t work out if they are finished or not.
Acrylic painting of a crop of yellow daffodils being blown in the wind. Acrylic painting of a crop of yellow daffodils being blown in the wind.
March 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Blimey, I hadn’t realised that I’d not posted here in so long. Here’s an update on my ink drawings… yes, you’ll have seen half of it before. As I go along, it kind of makes me want to add text or turn them into a story.
An open sketchbook with a pen and a golden coloured book-marking ribbon in the centre spine. There are 2 ink squares with black line drawings of water and landscape. Inspiration from Walberswick, Dunwich and Southwold
February 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Just a couple more sketchbook ideas. I’ve realised I get bored of bleak midwinter but I love the dark images it inspires me to do.
Right hand page of a sketchbook with two square black and white ink drawings vertically on the page. Both are of river water swirls and patterns. Right hand page of a sketchbook with two squares vertically on the page. The bottom square is empty, but the top one is a pen and ink illustration of patterns reflected on moving river water. It has a geometric element to the line patterns.
January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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It’s Friday! Which means that everyone trying to make art is acutely aware of how much they didn’t make this week, just because of … whatever! I’ll be drawing in my sketchbook this afternoon to create my future inspiration but in the meantime here’s a Procreate sketch of mine of surface water.
A square black and white, pen and ink style sketch of ripples on a surface of water. Drawing made using Procreate on my IPad.
January 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Sometimes paintings don’t go exactly the way I plan them in my head, but I’ve found a 3inch square of an older acrylic painting that I’d previously ‘parked’ and now it has me wanting to use it as inspiration for a new painting… #artonbluesky #iris #purple #painting
A small square close up of a larger painting of irises growing in a dark green patch of garden. The plants have yet to open their purple flowers but there are three stems pointing to the sky showing the tips of petals about to burst open.
January 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I’ve been reimagining some earlier works using my Tom’s Studio Lumos pen. Looking for inspiration and a calm headspace by concentrating on line work. Each square is about 65mm sq. as I’ve used the Apple Pencil nibs box as a guide ✍️ #sketchbook #beach #artistsonbluesky #suffolk #dunwich #forestry
Open sketchbook with a pen in the centre crease. A right hand page showing two vertical squares of line drawings. The top drawing based on a beach shoreline, the lower drawing of a forest of trees A square line drawings of a stylised beach and shorefront. Based on a study of Dunwich beach in Suffolk. A square line drawings of a stylised forest full of trees. Based on sketches from Dunwich forestry in Suffolk.
January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Instead of charcoal, I cracked out my lovely ‘Tom’s Studio’ Lumos ink pen. I think this may be my favourite ink pen ever! Oh, and the image is the same subject as before, with a different approach. Art is hard, confusing, expensive and worthwhile! #tomsstudio #lumos #penandink #drawing #artonbluesky
An open sketchbook on page one. There’s a pen lying in the crease of the book. On the right-hand page, you’ll find an illustration of a river scene in black ink. The waves are depicted as cross-hatched swirls that move from left to right. The scene extends upward, crossing a riverbank and traversing dark fields. The background sky is characterized by linear cloud lines. An illustration of a river scene in black ink. The waves are depicted as cross-hatched swirls that move from left to right. The scene extends upward, crossing a riverbank and traversing dark fields. The background sky is characterized by linear cloud lines.
January 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Change of plan. I was going to spend the whole day trying to draw water in #Procreate on my iPad in the warm house. Now, I am going to draw water on paper with charcoal in my freezing studio instead. It will be fun, but I’m really annoyed that I’ve literally drawn the nib off my Apple Pencil.
An Apple Pencil sitting on a wooden table showing that the drawing nib is cracked open.
January 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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So, on the theme of moody, dark and ominous, and in keeping with that ‘January’ feeling, here’s an older image based on #Blackwater in #Southwold & #Walberswick #norfolk #suffolk #inkillustration #january2025 #darkandgloomy #horror #Procreate
A drawing made using Procreate in black and white painterly tones. It depicts the tidal current of the dark water between Walberswick and Southwold. The foam on the water swirls in heaped tidal pulls and in the distance, beyond the dark fields you can just make out what could be a village.
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Happy New Year! Once again, January feels a little too long and dark so far… inspiration is inspiration I guess! Here’s a #WIP sketch I did today #procreate #Norfolk #NoAI #artistwork #january2025 #sepiatones
A line drawing sketch in a loose style of grass ahead of a wintry field with icy patches. In the distance there’s a bank of bushes and a tree line against a wet looking sky.
January 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Christmas vibes!

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#christmas #cards #artist #norfolk #suffolk #eastanglia #winter #illustrations #artforsale #holidays
A painting of an old house in the woods in winter time. It has ice and snow on the chimneys and roof, and warm light spills out from the window lighting the garden A large hare looks back over a wintry field. The sunset makes the snowy field and bushes glow in warm pinks and oranges
December 2, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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I’ve just spent the last few hours updating my website in the hope to sell a few more Christmas cards… I’m really not keen on admin! Merry Happy Holidays and Christmas, Wintry Festivities to you all! 😜 www.darrenrye.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:35 PM