A colourful and fun little painting of my favourite jug.
Watercolour on Paper. Approximately 40 x 40 cms. £ 175
Flower Power
Inspired by Shirley Trevena's work to include a 1960's pink dress in this painting.
Watercolour on Paper, 30 x 40 cms. £125
Everything is Rosy
I loved the hazy feel to this little painting
Watercolour on Paper £75
Delicate
Sorry, poor photography, this delicate flower is on white paper.
Approximately 20 x 25cms £75
Red Roses
Pastels gave just enough detail to finish this cheerful little painting.
Watercolour and Pastel on Paper, approximately 20 x 20 cms £75
Fresh Cherries
We usually let the birds have all the cherries, but picked a few branches to try and ripen them indoors.
Watercolour on paper approximately 50 x 40cms £170
Buttercup Fest
A real wild party of flowers.
Acrylic on Board , 30 x 30 cm, £220
Buttercups in Lockdown
I was lucky to live next to this field , so I could paint this outside with no problem.
Acrylic on board 30 x 30 cms, £220
Sea Breeze
I enjoyed the mark making freedom, but had to soften it a little later.
Acrylic on board, 30 x 30 cms, £220
Elements
Painted using earth colours - Ochre and Indian red. I wanted textures and movement. Just like the coast worn by the elements to turn rock to sand.
Oil on box canvas, 60 x 60 cms £330
Timeless
I wanted to include a sense of mystery into my work.
So I deliberately made my marks less prescriptive and more random.
Acrylic on Board, Grey wood frame, £275
Making an Entrance
Inspired by an artist on Instagram to paint this gateway I pass on a morning jog.
Oil on slim box canvas 23x 30 cms £220
Racing Heart
How I felt painting this. It was exciting to get the drama and movement.
Acrylic and charcoal on board, currently unframed. £300
Light Catcher
My first plein air painting of the year.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 40cms £ 220
Simply Boats
A challenge to paint this as simply as possible, few colours, few brush strokes- all it needed to convey the scene.
Acrylic on board unframed 40 x 40 cms £175
Kitchen Solstice
For a few minutes at the solstice the light reached a dark corner of my kitchen , I loved the reflections on my hob.
This was a real challenge to capture as the light went within 10 minutes and did not reach this area after a few days.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 50 cms £200
Heavy Steam
Deliberately smudgy with the smoky steam from the old engine.
Oil on box canvas, 40 40 cms, £185
Nottingham
Heading toward Christmas in the city centre. From inside a pub.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 50 cms £175
the-day-out
Shadows and figures just catching the sunlight made this irresistible to me.
Oil on box canvas 40 x 40 cms £200
Getting There
I gave this painting the title because that's how I felt about my painting career. This is what I am aiming for, some drama, intriguing colour use, lots of different marks, blended and sharp edges.
Oil on Canvas. 50 x 50cms £300
Dazzling Dew
Such a bright morning, I could hardly look at it.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 40 cms, £175
Water gardens
More inspiration from my photos taken at Monet's gardens.
Acrylic on board, framed £300
Imagine
Lots of play with underpainting in acrylics gave me the structure to be free with the oils on top.
Exhibited by Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Oil over acrylic on slim box canvas, 60 x 60 cms, £ 350
Suspended World
Everything else goes on hold whilst I paint. I forget all except colour, shape and movement, a beautiful place to be.
Oil on slim box canvas 60 x 60 cms, £350
Reflected light
Painted from a photo I took at Monet's water gardens.
Oil on Deep box Canvas 70 x 70 cms £275
Dream On
I enjoyed splashing the paint around on this piece. There are runs and splatters.
Oil on slim box canvas 60 x 60 cms £225 Currently Unavailable (Pending new home)
Wellaways Water Garden
A beautiful garden I have been privileged to visit.
Acrylic on paper framed Approximately 40 x 50 cms £140
Calm waters in Lilac
This painting is the remaining one of 3 paintings of the same tranquil scene.
Oil on slim box Canvas, 40 x 50 cms £275
Proper Shop
Roses the Ironmongers has everything you need and more.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 50 cms £175
Student Life
My sons shared student kitchen, a riot of colour and shape.
Selected for Trowbridge Town Hall Open Exhibition.
Oil on slim box canvas 50x 50 cms £250
Dots well stocked larder
I love my best friends home, the larder was too inviting to miss.
Oil on slim box canvas 50x50cms £200
Cosy
I liked the difference in light in and out of our lounge. Selected for Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition.
Oil on slim box canvas 50 x 50 cms, £250
Back in Time
I loved the jumble of furniture bouncing the light around this old room.
Oil on slim box canvas 50 x50cms £200
Upstairs Downstairs
Crowmans antique shop, sadly moved online. An emporium of wonder.
Oil on slim Box Canvas 40x40cm £200
bright light
I was greeted at breakfast by the low sun highlighting these lilies.
I loved the shadows cast on the table. A perfect excuse to use Nitram liquid charcoal.
Approx 55 x 40cms, Mounted. Unframed, £250.
Out of the Blue
Gorgeous deep blue sky on this beautiful beach grabbed me.
Acrylic on board
60x60cms £300
World Suspended
Painting is like meditation for me, a special place where I am lost in shape , colour and exploration. The rest of the world goes by unnoticed.
Oil over acrylic base, Slim box Canvas 60 x 60 cms, £320
mellow yellow
loved the autumnal colours in the lane , but took a long time to show them off, I needed to increase the vibrancy of the back ground mauves and violets before the yellows sang out.
Oil on slim Box Canvas 40 x 50cms £185
golden shore
Runs and rubbed oils on this highly textures artwork.
Mixed media on Slim Box Canvas 50x50 cms £300
sun tipped
Painted outdoors as I was happily slashing the paint around.
I loved the low sun just catching the tips of the long grasses through the lane.
Mixed media on slim box canvas , approx 60 x 75 cms £300 unframed, £375 framed.
tenby harbour
A plein air painting, I think my joy shows in this.
Acrylic on slim box canvas, approx 60 x 75 cms £300
rainbows retreat
A mixed media painting from photo I took. Love the opportunity to use runs of acrylic paint and later rubbed in rainbow of oils.
Slim box canvas approx 60 x 75cms, £300 or £375 framed.
winter glow
I love the reflections on wet sand. Lots of water in this acrylic paintings making. Oils added for the softer sun glow.
60 x60cms Mixed Media on slim box canvas £300
Cool Seat
How to keep cool Italian style.
Watercolour on paper 55 x70 cms Framed, £250
waters-edge
Such variety in colour and textures in this little sample of coastline.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 40 cms £250
sandy-shadows
Huge shadows across the beach, last tips of trees catching light, my favourite beach.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 40 cms £250
Timeless
Unchanged for millenea, scudding clouds and their reflections on wet sand.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas £220
impressions-of-giverny
From a photo I took at Monet's water gardens.
Oil on Deep Box Canvas 50 x 75 cms £225
mystical-morning
One of this days that feels unreal
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 40cms £250
sun-tipped
From the field to the lane, the last of the sun catching tips of foliage and dry grasses.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 40 cms £300
olive-grove
A recent trip to Italy and these ancient carved hillsides make such lovely shadows- had to be painted.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x40 cms SOLD
the-village-pond
A spot I frequently pass that always catches my eye.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 40 cms £300
lake-of-memories
Restful, contemplative spot and painting.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas
40 x 50 cms £300
drifting
Sculptured snow drift- you know where.
Slathered on oils, carved hedgerow.
Oil on Slim box Canvas 40 x40 cms £300
window-on-buttercups
Little vista from my lane.
Palette knife work using toning method to mix paint on canvas.
Oil n slim box canvas 40x 40 cms SOLD
wild-lane
The paint runs drips and splashes on this work. Created plein air it has extra life. I also got bitten to pieces!
Acrylic and oil on Slim Box Canvas 50 x50cms £300
so-close
Loved the intertwined trees, reminds me of a loving couple.
Acrylic and oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 50 cms £250
lanes-end
The point where the lane ends and an open field begins, going from the shade to the light. I have painted this spot many times, but still want to paint it again.
Acrylic and oil on slim box canvas 50 x 50 cms £300
entranced
Lovely shadows depict the shape of the undergrowth.
Splashes of acrylic and soft muted runs of colour helped shape this painting
Acrylic and oil on slim box canvas 50 x 50 cms £300
Long and Winding
An invitation to my local lane, just begs to be explored further- whats around the corner?
Acrylic and Oil on slim box canvas
40 x50cms £250
Planks Pond
I loved the pattern of light through the trees and reflected in the pond. A simple plein air painting with deliberate lively marks.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 50 cms £220
tapestry
This painting reminds me of a tapestry, lots of small applied marks in raw umber, prussian and alazarin give the appearance of green mainly because of the pink background.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x40cms £185
drifting
A view from my usual lane. Loved the wind carved shapes in the snow.
Lots of impasto palette knife work. Good practice for icing next years Christmas cake.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 40 cms, £250
serene
Beautiful light off the bay. Lovely subtle pastel shades.
Framed acrylic on board. 46x 46 cms SOLD
A Walk with Aunty Pam
Lovely low winter sun picked out bits of colour on these pine trees. Lovely red bark and patterns of shadow had to be painted.
40 x 40 cms
Oil on Slim Box Canvas £185
seat of light
Inks, liquid graphite and a hint of watercolour depict this simple kitchen scene.
Framed £250
Woodland Walk
Scraped marks made in the wet paint, loose brushwork, and palette knife with lots of colour.
Evening light on the reddish bark with some lovely shadows, a memorable place.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 50 cms £185
Autumn Mist
Muted colour stumbled loosely and rag rubbed to give the soft background, with bolder paint application for the foreground trees.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 50 cms £300
Play In The Park
This incredible Chestnut has been inviting me to paint it for years. I hope I have captured some of it's character.
Oil on slim box canvas 40 x 40 cm £175
Natures Veil
Glimpses of distant hills and trees through overgrown lichen coated branches calls for closer inspection.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40x 50cms £185
Mirrored Skies
This is one of my favourite paintings, I love the movement in it. Simple palette knife use let streaks of colour depict the scene.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 50 x 50 cms Sorry, Currently Unavailable(pending new home)
Crisp
A view from Salthrop Hill near Swindon.
Soft rubbed in background contrasts with highly textured ladled on thick palette knife application in foreground.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas £300
Sail Away
Based on photos from Heybridge. An excuse to use lots of patchy layers of pretty colour.
Oil on slim box canvas, 40 x 50 cms Sale Pending
wheel-balanced
Re-inspired to paint in ink. The bright sunshine this week is casting some great shadows.
58 x 77 cms Framed. £250
cycle display
This scene caught my eye as light from a shop window shone on a puddle showing off the cycle shape beautifully.
Ink and a little watercolour on paper. SOLD
last light
The view as the last low rays of light filtered through the hedge, just caught the tips of cow parsley and long grass.
Oil on Box canvas 50 x 50 cms SOLD
field of gold
The sun on this crop was dazzling.
I have tried to enhance the brightness of the yellow by contrasting it with purple
Oil on Box Canvas 40 x 40cms £ 185
Bank of Colour
Lots of loose impasto marks to depict this wild scene.
Oil on Box canvas 40 x 40 cms £185
Ivors Plum
This old tree is obviously a heavy cropper.
The bent boughs attracted me in the first place, but the blossom was the icing on the cake.
Oil on Box Canvas 50 x40 cms £175
the glen
One of my favourites.
Lovely patterns from the stream over the sand, echoing the tree shapes above.
Oil on Box Canvas 40 x 40cms £195
Currently on display in Wales
winter afternoon
Painted with fingers , bushes and sticks.
A view along our road in low winter light.
Oil on Box Canvas 40 x40 cms £180
Wintery Lane
My personal favourite in this group.
Lovely thick textured paint in foreground puddles.
Oil on Box Canvas 40 x 40 cms £200
Winter Skies
All sort of shades in this sky, mostly added with fingers.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 40 cms £180
Winter light
A local lane in low light, lots of texture.
Oil on Canvas 40 x40 £185
Spots of light
A bit different- still playing , finger dabs this time.
Sorry SOLD , but happy to play finger dabs again if you have a place or photo for me to use.
Posts and puddles
Loved the lines and patterns made in the mud and shadows.
Oil on box canvas 25 x 30 cms £35
refreshed
Subtle turquoise,and mauve shades enhance this restful scene.
Oil on canvas 40 x 40 cms £180
Currently on display in Wales
Ancient Willow
This massive old and pollarded tree was a magnet for me. I enjoyed playing with textures for the bark, and subdued the background with more subtle shades.
Oil on canvas 50 x40cms £175
Colour Shades
Another painting from the recent workshop
Sunlit Lane
A very pleasant workshop was held by Stuart Roper last month , at The White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough.
He did a demonstration using wide flat brushes, we then used our own references to produce our own acrylic work.
Hazy days
Lovely shapes in the sand bars catch the reflected light. You can see why this is my favourite beach.
50 x50 cms Oil on box canvas £220
Currently on display in Pembrokeshire
Dipping In
Pretty colours and loose brush marks depict this drunken Willow half in the water.
Oil on canvas , Approx 40 x 50 cms £200
Currently at The Duke of Holcombe (see Exhibition Page for details)
Colby Colour
Autumn colours in the sunshine showed beautifully through these tall fir trees in Colby Woodland Gardens.
Oil on Canvas 50 x 50 cms £200
Mandy's Flowers, White on White
Lovely opportunity to paint White on White, a chance to catch the shapes in shadow.
Watercolour on paper. 40 x 30 cms, Mounted 50 x 40cms £150
Old Roses Again
The last roses from the garden , but in Oil paints.
Approx 30 x 25cms £120
Autumnal Lane
Wonderful Autumn colours inspired this Plein Air painting.
Currently at The Duke of Holcombe (see Exhibitions page)
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cms £175
going with the flow
My latest workshop painting using Dioxazine violet, Phthalo Green and lemon yellow, using runs of watery paint, then spread using a sprayer. Lots of built up layers.
low light on roundway
The steep wooded hillside filtered the low light, a magnificent surreal effect that was hard to capture.
Oil on Slim Box Canvas 40 x 50cms £185
Ebbs and Flows
This painting includes free runs of very thin oil paint. I like the effect, I hope you do too.
Oil on Canvas 40 x 50 cms £180
Back Ends
One of my favourite paintings, no longer available.