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RECENT WORK
Oak trees, Loxley Woods
Acrylic on canvas
120cm x 120cm
November 2022
Ash Trees Autumn, Loxley Woods.
Acrylic on canvas
November 2022
Loxley Woods blue bells.
Acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 180cm
Loxley woods.
Ash tree study. October 2022.
Made in the studio from sketches. Experimenting with mark making and paint application to create a sense of movement. I really like the interplay between the negative space of the sky and the positive shapes of the trees.
Loxley Woods, October.
Ash tree study 2022.
Looser brushwork, looking to create a sense of space and capture the movement of the trees in the breeze.
Chinese Elm.
Acrylic on canvas, 90cm x 60cm
A beautiful example of this rare tree, found in the gardens of Cossington Park.
One of my favourite summer subjects with the summer sun creating patterns of light and shade.
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Paintings 2021/2022
Cossington Copse,
January 2020.
Acrylic on board.
A time for wellies and a scarf on wintry days on the Polden Hills.
Wych Elm, Cossington Park. Summer.
Acrylic on board 30cm x 45cm
A beautiful tree in the gardens opposite. The twisting trunk has been an image I have often returned to. Here the summer breeze catches the heavy foliage.
Cossington copse.
Acrylic on board
30cm x 50cm
One of a series of small landscsapes I made from sketches. Huddled in the studio as the winter light grew gloomy. This one looked more at suggesting texture through mark-making. Im pretty sure I used wooden forks and old kitchen knife on this one. Always worth a go.
Shapwick Church
Acrylic 50cm x 30cm
I made a series of paintings of Polden churches in the Easter of 2021. Blue skies belied the creeping spring chill.
Edington Church.
Acrylic on board.
50cm x 30cm.
Another cold morning, surrounded by daffodils and snowdrops. Love the silhouttes of the pollared willows.
Catcott Moor.
90cm x 90cm.
Acrylic on canvas.
Property of Class Publishing.
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Sketchbook 2023/24
February Sweet Track study
A sketch made with water soaking into my boots. Started in water colour then overworked with colour pencils and oil pastels.
Shapwick Heath February 2023.
A4
Winter trees against a faint glimmer of sun, the sound of rooks, a chill in the air, a quiet place of calm.
Shapwick Nature Reserve, March 2023
Pale sunshine, still reflections broken by the gliding swans.
Sunshine morning, coffee from a flask. Looking towards Kerfany across the Belon estuary.
Above Port Lamat, looking North.
A contrast between the textures and patterns of the cliffs and the simplicity of the flat sea and cloudless sky.
Doelan June 2023
Always love the classic image of the lighthouse at Doelan. You see so many photographs and paintings of it however that is a bit of a challenge to do something beyond the cliche. Unusually for me this is a straight watercolour. I love the shapes of the pine trees that form the foreground element and take some of the focus away from the "Phare Aval".
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Sport
Tour de France Drawing 2023
Race for the line.
Mixed media.
Tour de France sketch 2023
Stage 2.
Mixed media.
Tour de France 2023
Stage one, the Yates brothers battle it out for the yellow jersey.
Tour de France 2023
Jai Hindley takes first place on day five.
Tour de France sketch 2023
John Hendrie
The Scottish forward drives across the Ayresome Park turf.
Mixed media 2024
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Illustrations
Acrylic illustration for Paramedic Continuing Development product published by Class Professional publishing.
Acrylic illustration for Paramedic Continuing Development product published by Class Professional
Photoshop illustration for Paramedic Continuing Development product published by Class Professional publishing.
Photoshop illustration for Paramedic Continuing Development product published by Class Professional publishing.
Araignee
Kitchen Illustration
Acrylic on board 40cm x 30cm
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Lockdown Archive
Buttercups, cow parsley, cherry blossom and the last of the bluebells
Acrylic on board.
15cm x 30cm approx
The first lockdown proved to be a a kick start for me. Teaching had taken over and my work for twenty years was pretty much a series of sketchbooks that recorded family life. The death of my elder brother, Gary, and the strange period of Lockdown lead me to begin painting again. A series of
Dandelions and Cow Parsley.
Acrylic on board.
15cm x 30cm approx
Painted in the first few days of lockdown. Nature springing with vitality as the sun warmed the earth. A bunch of flowers picked from the garden and an opportunity to begin looking closely at the world around us.
Blue bells and Everlasting wall flowers.
Acrylic on board.
15cm x 30cm approx
Painted on April 15th on the front path, greenfly getting stuck in the paint. The Covid19 spring sun was surprisingly strong and created a dynamic shadow that echoed the delicacy of the flowers.
Dandelions and Cow Parsley.
Acrylic on board.
15cm x 30cm approx
Painted on the 10th of April from a bunch of apple blossom, plucked from one of the trees in the back garden and a snippet of forsythia. The yellows and whites were the dominant colour in the garden, glimmering against uncommonly blue skies and green grass.
Celandine, grape hyacinth, vinca and laurel blossom.
Acrylic on board.
15cm x 30cm approx
Beg an Tour, Clohars Carnoet.
Acrylic on board.
40cm x 30 cm
The starting point of my Brittany holiday lockdown project. My family and I were booked to visit Southern Brittany during Easter, a regular occurence over the last ten years. Covid19 put an end to that. Instead I went on a virtual painting holiday, making paintings every day in a two hour period from 11am to 1pm. I used photographs I ha
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