“Attitude”

This new painting is inspired by a workshop I went on where the model was giving off vibes of pushing back. Each time I walk across the park I’m struck by the teenage girls who have so much confidence and challenge the average. I just wanted to see if I could capture this in the […]

The Essence of Commuting: Art Inspired by Lives on the Tube

“Joined by Monday morning” is an acrylic and charcoal painting 40 x 50cm. Whenever I travel on the tube I like to observe how different the people are on the train. Their clothes, their body language all attest to a life lived the weekend before. The only thing linking them is the brief time they […]

The Pie Makers

“The Pie Makers” is acrylic on canvas. 30x40cm. A celebration of this wonderful summer for fruit. The ever popular apple pie! My small apple tree has really surpassed itself this year.

I dreamt I was dancing

A new painting based on one I did some time ago called “The Dream”. In dreams I find I cannot go through a doorway, I’m not sure if there’s any colour and all sorts of people I know are mixed up together. I have tried to convey this uncertain quality in my painting. Acrylic 64 […]

Not awake – not sleeping

As part of my new series of paintings for 2020, I have just completed this painting that is inspired by the half state when we have been in a deep sleep but then on waking, the dream seems to go on. Medically this is a recognised phenomena and has has a fancy name but I […]