I have a nice peaceful mountainside commission to share with you. I liked the reasonably straightforward composition on this one… it has a lovely stillness to it with a big open blue sky.There’s plenty of interesting colour tones surrounding the building though with silvers and browns at the front of […]
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Here’s a new city image, ‘Somerset House in Summer’. One that I decided to pull from my little black notebook of scenes i’d like to find time to paint (it’s quite a full notebook these days!). Some of you may have spotted that I have painted this building before as […]
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The idea for this Christmas wrapping pattern has been swimming around in my head for a couple of years now! and every year time creeps away from me and the Christmas rush swallows up any spare moments in the studio. But this year I have been determined! taking the small […]
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This is the first in what I hope will be a new series of ‘throwback Thursday’ posts, catching up on previous projects and key artworks that perhaps I didn’t have time to share previously. This painting was created for a private commission, to be given a special wedding gift. The […]
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I had a funny, but lovely, commission request recently for a traditional architecture & landscape scene to be given as a wedding gift. The subject was Highcliffe Castle in Dorset, the venue for a family wedding this August. Well this happens to be a place that I know extremely well, […]
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Here’s a colourful sunset to take your mind off a grey afternoon. It was created as a commission for a 70th birthday present. Titled ‘Sunset Over St Marys Lighthouse, Whitley Bay‘, it was painted with acrylic and ink on paper, mounted within a thin black 60 x 50cm frame. I’ve […]
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