Sur, Oman

Sur Oman Watercolour Prints signed and numbered | Paintings and prints of Oman – Alan Reed

Sur, Oman

Sur is a port city on Oman’s eastern tip. Its shipyards, which still produce traditional wooden vessels, played a pivotal role in Oman’s maritime past. In the city center, Sunaysilah Fort has 4 defensive towers around a courtyard. Exhibits at the Maritime Museum include ship models. Southeast of Sur, green turtles nest at Ras al Jinz Turtle Reserve. To the west, craggy cliffs surround verdant Wadi Bani Khalid Valley. 

Paintings of Sur, Oman

Sur Oman Prints and Watercolour Paintings of Oman available from Alan Reed Gallery in Ponteland Norhtumberland. We have a large collection of Gulfart on display for you to see. We warmly welcome you to visit us where you will be greeted with a fresh coffee.

Watercolour Painting of Sur in Oman, a coastal town renowned for its building of dhows.

I remember the day as being incredibly hot and the sky being an intense blue as I was sketching dhows not far from where I painted the old watch tower in this painting.

See Alan Reed’s Blog to discover more painting techniques en plein air whilst painting on location in Oman.

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Painting on Gold Leaf

There’s a story on how I ended up doing a Painting of Dhows on Gold Leaf. In 2010 I was involved in a painting of a very large Biblical scene which was to go in a church building. It was a massive project and painting, executed on 5 panels of gold leaf in oil paints. The client gave us several small boards coated with gold leaf to experiment with. So I decided to do my own paintings on this unusual and expensive surface. Read more on Alan Reed’s painting Blog