I attend the West Dean Arts Foundation at least 4 times a year and sketch roughly from the same place, looking up the expansive grassland to the arbourium at the top of the hill. The view changes at twilight and nightfall, with the seasons. I have created three paintings highlighting the dramatic and sometimes subtle changes in colour and...
I have always lived by and been facinated by the sea, the movement, interaction with the land and the reflected colours. Blues, pinks. yellows and browns created by the seabed and the reflections from the sky. This 50cms x 50cms mixed media painting is about texture, movement and reflections.
A great morning of portrait work, quick 2 hour soft pastel work 30cms x 40cms
Created using mixed media using drawing from life and studio work. 50cms X 50cms ob board. This work has been accepted for exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Pastel Society Anual Exhibition 2026
I am so enjoying mixed media. A facination with the texture and form of trees with sunlight and the dark shadows created through the multitude of suble colours. 50cm x 50cm on board using softpastel conte, gesso and Acrylic.
Sam in oils 30cm X 30cm on canvas
Hugo was painted for a dear friend to go along with her picture of her Boarder Terrier. I enjoyed working in oils to create this image. I don't paint dogs. you probably don't believe that given the number I have completed, but people keep asking and I cant refuse!
Quick Sketch in oils 7" x 5" at Round Tower with https://www.paintanddrawatelier.com/ yesterday. Great few hours and accompanied by the Royal Marines Band next door, who were playing out HMS Prince of Wales as she left Portsmouth for a tour of duty. Limited palette Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red, Titanium White and Lamp Black. Great practice to see the...
