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When I visit the UK one of my favorite places to visit is my mom's home town of Runcorn in Cheshire. I always walk along the Bridgewater canal. The Bridgewater Canal is sometimes described as England’s first canal. It was built to transport coal to the industrial areas of Manchester. The Bridgewater Canal was the forerunner of canal networks. It opened in 1761, and has a special place in history as the first canal in Britain to be built without following an existing watercourse, and so became a model for those that followed it. This is one of my first watercolors.

Arthur Barnes is a artist who works in a variety of mediums including ink, watercolor, pastels and oils. He prefers to work directly from life and his favorite subjects are landscapes with an emphasis on nocturnes and scenes of the Erie Canal. Arthur has had little formal training but was fortunate to study a year under Juanita Greene Parks in 1982. She had studied under Reginald Marsh and Robert Brackman. Brackman was a student of Ashcan artist/ teacher Robert Henri. Since that time, Arthur has been on a consistent course of self-training in art with an emphasis on learning through experience much like the Ashcan artists. "You learn to draw. . .by drawing," his teacher often recited. Artists Statement on Nocturnes "Half of our...