Today at boot sale I found a charming old painting of Exmoor that I liked enough, and so purchased it for a few quids.

Question is – can anyone identify the artist?

This is all I have to go on and after 30 mins am going cross-eyed. (Probably a Chinese bloke that knocked out 40 a week):

Clifford Hanney (guess)

Probably a Chinese bloke that knocked out 40 a week

😯

No wonder he had a shaky hand!

J.R. Hartley

Hitler

WHSHITH .

Top line is clearly ‘Barry’, the second is anyone’s guess..
Could maybe be ‘Whittington’? Whitti-something?

Im getting Colonel Digestive

Barry Shitpeas.

Ronnie Pickering

Who?

Chester Thunderkeks

Jeremy Fartwarbler

Oswald Crappenguff

This is annoying me now.

Is it a Colonel someone?

trying to break apart the H’s that could be ‘ti’, or G’s etc.

Hihighue

Hitintiue

Hihighue

Hitigtiue

AGGGHHHHHHH.

Leeroy Jenkins?

Spaghetti Pete Oliver

Kung Pao Chicken with Fried Rice?

maybe if we saw the painting it might give us a clue?

Just saying… 😆

Leeroy Jenkins?

Full party wipe on Antiques Roadshow?

Bit of browsing for the OP (or people as bored as me) – http://www.findartinfo.com/english/artist-signatures.html

Alfred James Munnings

I did a Google image search to find similar images to yours and it came back as Gale crater, which is on the surface of Mars.

It’s probably safe to assume that the artist is extra testicle.
Hth.

Hihighue

Gesundheit

I’ve found a match!

Hihighue

Hmmm – Photoshop isn’t helping much.

I’d go with Whit… but the last character looks like a y or g as the descender wraps under.

Good shout on the wrapping under bit, but if it was Whit… that would imply it should be a lower case H rather than what looks like a Capital. That’s kinda why I though the first part was ‘Col H…’

Col H Blythe. Or possibly Col H Higgins.

Is the picture of a bucket of fried chicken?

BigJohn – Member

Barry Shitpeas.

New keyboard please 😆

Some aspects of the text remind me of Cyrillic or Hebrew.

Some stellar responses as ever!

Must admit Barry Shitpeas made me bark some cornflakes.

Alfred James Munnings

That would be nice!

Turns out that it is:

John Shapland
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=775566.0

I hope his colouring in is better than his hand writtin.

Blimey – got on the first post of that forum!
Would never have guessed in a million years from the letterforms though!

Note to self. When I’m a famous artist – have a decency to have a legible signature!

Long shot – A couple of artists called Widgery did Devon landscapes

Father Todd Unctious.

Well well, how could we have not deciphered that! Identical!

😯

Slapdash more like.

He obviously didn’t rate that painting