Bude Cornwall Pink House Landscape with Trees and Garden Watercolour 1978

Title: Bude Cornwall Pink House Landscape with Trees and Garden Watercolour 1978
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Watercolor on watercolour board
Size: 9.75 x 12.75 inches
Annotated Verso: “Bude 78”
Condition: Very good; clean surface and crisp colour, minor wear to board edges consistent with age
Provenance: From a large private collection of this artists work, Oxford, England

Description: An elegant 1978 watercolour painting by British artist Tony Herbert 1927 to 2024 depicting a peaceful residential view from Bude a coastal town in North Cornwall. This painting captures the quiet charm of a countryside garden with a soft pink rendered house framed by wild hedges distant rooftops and telegraph poles tracing lines through the moody Cornish sky.

Herbert’s watercolour technique here is expressive yet controlled showing delicate shifts in tone across the sky and capturing the soft architecture of the house against surrounding trees. The composition offers both structure and spontaneity with fresh natural greens and subtle rose hues creating visual contrast. The positioning of the garden border in the foreground adds a sense of intimacy suggesting a familiar or personal perspective on this lived-in rural scene.

Bude is well known for its rugged cliffs and seaside vistas but here Herbert turns his attention inland portraying a more private and domestic moment in the landscape. The work would suit collectors interested in British village scenes domestic architecture or Cornish life as well as those drawn to the gentle clarity of 20th century watercolour.