{"id":13,"date":"2026-04-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:00:00","slug":"maker-spotlight-david-rees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Maker Spotlight: David Rees and the watercolours of Shropshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every few weeks we sit down with one of our makers to hear about their work, their process, and what drives them. This time we spoke with David Rees<\/strong>, whose luminous watercolours of the Shropshire landscape have been some of our most popular pieces for the past three years.<\/p>\n

Where did it all begin?<\/h2>\n

David grew up in Church Stretton and spent his childhood walking the Long Mynd with his parents. He started painting seriously in his forties \u2014 “I always drew as a child but life got in the way,” he laughs \u2014 and discovered watercolour almost by accident when a friend left a set of paints at his kitchen table.<\/p>\n

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“Watercolour suits me because it’s honest. You can’t over-work it. You put the paint down and you commit to it.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Shropshire series<\/h2>\n

His current series captures the county across the four seasons \u2014 early frost on the hills above Clun, bluebells in Wenlock Edge, the golden shimmer of a July afternoon near Much Wenlock. Each painting takes between three days and two weeks to complete.<\/p>\n

We stock a rotating selection of originals (from \u00a3145) and a range of high-quality limited edition prints (from \u00a328). David will be joining us at our Maker’s Meet on 26th April<\/a> if you’d like to meet him in person.<\/p>\n

Come in and take a look \u2014 they really are something special. \ud83c\udfa8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We sat down with David Rees, whose luminous watercolours of the Shropshire landscape have been some of our most popular pieces. Original paintings from \u00a3145, prints from \u00a328.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,9],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makers","tag-local-art","tag-shrewsbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-61.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}