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		<title>North Shields Fish Quay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first commissions I received when I went self employed back in 1984 was to do two original watercolours of the Tyne near the North Shields Fish Quay area for a leading North East businessman. Over the years I&#8217;ve kept going back to the reference material I gathered back then to do fresh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saddler Street, Durham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Durham is a fine city to visit for the day. One of the highlights of my part-time teaching post at South Tyneside College was taking my students there for one of the painting projects I had set them. They had to do drawings of various aspects of the city, gather reference and take photographs as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/02/06/saddler-street-durham/</link>
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		<title>Tyne Bridge from the Keep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now at the stage in my career where some of the early paintings of Newcastle I&#8217;ve had reproduced as prints are now historical. They have captured views that have seen dramatic changes over the years. This view of the Tyne Bridge from the Keep is a prime example. I painted the original watercolour  around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/02/04/tyne-bridge-from-the-keep/</link>
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		<title>Grand Canal, Venetian Dawn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In 2006, Susan and I spent a week in the Dolomites with an old Venetian lady who has a holiday home there. I spent the week awestruck by the majesty and spectacle of God&#8217;s creation and produced many sketchbook watercolours painted on location. At the end of the week, we then went to Venice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/02/03/grand-canal-venetian-dawn/</link>
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		<title>The Jewel of Muscat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wreck of a 9th century dhow was discovered by local fishermen off the island of Belitung. In 1998 a German company was given permission to excavate the wreck where they discovered 60,000 pieces of rare Chinese porcelain. From the remains, a reconstruction of the sailing ship was made using original materials, including coconut fibre [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/01/31/the-jewel-of-muscat/</link>
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		<title>Mubarakiyya Souk, Kuwait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 I spent a couple of weeks painting on location in Kuwait. Several different subjects attracted my attention and demanded to be painted. One was the entranceway to the Mubarakiyya Souk in Kuwait City. I found a suitable place to sit outside the entranceway in the warmth of the January sunlight and peering into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/01/31/mubarakiyya-souk-kuwait/</link>
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		<title>Dhows, Calm Waters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently received an order from a client in the USA for 15 copies of this limited edition print titled &#8220;Dhows, Calm Waters&#8221;. The painting was inspired by some sketchbook studies I made in watercolour of dhows in Kuwait when I was there in January 2009. Since I first visited the Gulf back in 2007, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/01/31/dhows-calm-waters/</link>
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		<title>Grey Street, Snow Shower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new watercolour titled &#8220;Grey Street, Snow Shower&#8221; which is to be released next week as a limited edition print with only 95 in the edition. The painting captures the majestic sweeping curve of what has been described by the architectural critic Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as being the finest curved street in Europe. Despite being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/01/27/grey-street-snow-shower-2/</link>
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		<title>Grey Street, Snow Shower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2008 I launched a limited edition print titled &#8220;Theatre Royal in the Snow&#8221;. The print was an instant success and the edition of 95 sold out. The smaller preparation study that I made prior to the larger studio painting was used as the Christmas card for the Theatre Royal that year. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/01/26/grey-street-snow-shower/</link>
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		<title>Portrait in Charcoal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently undertaking a number of portrait commissions at the moment, mostly in oils but some in charcoal. Dominic was commissioned as a present for his 50th birthday in December 2011. I managed only one afternoon sitting with Dominic, however that was sufficient to capture a very good likeness of a man who ticks all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alanreed.com/2012/01/24/portrait-in-charcoal-2/</link>
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