These drawings are of buddleia and flowering currant bushes growing alongside the River Lune in Halton, outside my studio. They are just beginning to bud, and I wanted to record the budding leaves and blossoms tangled in the ‘flood grass’, or warlords whiskers, as a friend calls it. Without really planning it, I’ve embarked on […]
Lune Year: Buddleia and Flowering Currant with Warlocks Whiskers Read More »
This exhibition has just opened at Lancaster Museum, showing a series of work by myself and four other artists: Milan Ivanic, Fay Collins, Gill Aiken, and Rosa Mackinder. The artwork was made in response to the museum collection. Here’s my two paintings. Looking around the museum I was fascinated by the old photos of the
Museum Inspired Exhibition at Lancaster Museum Read More »
My watercolour landscapes (and sheep-scapes) of NW England are now available as Christmas cards via my website shop. These can be ordered as standard with the greeting ” Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year’, but you can also choose your own customised inside greeting.
Wintry Watercolours available as Christmas Cards Read More »
I really enjoyed painting these watercolours last week. I love the colours of winter, (although I really dislike the darkness). Even into December there’s still autumn colour in the grasses on the moors, and in the remaining leaves which haven’t been whipped away. So far this autumn has been a really colourful one, we haven’t
Wintry watercolours Read More »
This painting shows the ginnel (alley) behind the street I used to live on. I went there last week in the rain, for no particular reason other than I was nearby. I set myself the challenge of trying to paint, without exaggeration, the flat grey light of a grey street on a rainy day. Dreich, to
Denmark Street, Lancaster Read More »
My art classes finish this week for a summer break, but will start again the second week of September. They are held at my studio in Halton, and at Williamson Park in Lancaster. You can read more about them here. Please contact me if you would like to join one of my classes.
Art classes September 2015, Lancaster Read More »
Limited edition prints are now available of my oil painting “The Last Skydancer”, which I painted earlier this year in memory of Hope and Sky, two young hen harriers who went missing, presumed shot, shortly after fledging from their nests on the Forest of Bowland. Following the recent news of a further five hen harriers missing
The Last Skydancer limited edition prints in aid of Birders Against Wildlife Crime Read More »
Fish are a longstanding favourite subject of mine to paint, I love the glow and flash of their colours when viewed underwater, and their beautiful movements. This shoal of herring swims in a mesmerising non-stop circle at the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary. The herring are local, scooped up from the water of Loch Creran, just outside
Silver Darlings – Acrylic painting of herring at Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary Read More »
A small watercolour sketch of four pansies. Painted at my Art in the Park class in the Ashton Memorial yesterday. Perched on top of the hill with the wind howling around us, it felt like February not May. The class were practising watercolour techniques, it is our aim to get back outside sketching if/when spring
Four pansies, watercolour sketch Read More »
I was delighted to receive some lovely photos of my poster being admired by schoolchildren in Sambava, N Madagascar. The poster was commissioned in 2014 by Duke Lemur Center to support their conservation work in Marojejy National Park. The central illustration features flora and fauna of the park, including some beautiful silky sifaka, lemurs with long
Schoolchildren with my poster in Sambava, Madagascar Read More »