And some more...............

Some new still lives

Christchurch College Oxford

Picture done for the O3 Gallery in Oxford

More Nicholas Nickleby drawings

Ralph calls on the family in London

Roger Rees as Nicholas

Bob Peck as Sir Mulberry Hawk with Ralph

Smike being thrashed by Squeers

John Woodvine as Ralph Nickleby

Leila Kaye as Mrs Crummles

The opening scene - the Muffin and Crumpet trading company

Edward Petherbridge as Newman Noggs

Roger Rees and Timothy Spall

Mrs Mantolini

Bob Peck as John Browdie

A repentant Ralph about to hang himself

Smike preparing to play the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet

Nicholas Nickleby

Found some sketchbooks dating back to 1980 when I was working at the RSC at the Aldwych in London on the prop staff. They were previewing an adaptation of Dickens' novel by David Edgar which lasted 8 1/2 hours. Initially it didn't do well and I remember them closing the upper balcony and offering tickets to people at the busstops outside until Bernard Levin's rave review in The Times. After that it was a smash hit and it was moving to see the audience spontaneously rise to their feet at the end of the show night after night. It was an inspired production and the open plan set with everyone on stage made it ideal to draw.

Suzanna Bertish as Peg Sliderskew

Bob Peck as John Browdie helps Smike ( David Threlfell) escape

Nicholas and Newman Noggs (Edward Petherbridge)

Ben Kingsley playing The Duke in the Crummles Theatre Company's production of Romeo and Juliet

Summer landscapes from Warwickshire and the Lake district

 View from Meon Hill towards Mickleton

 

Brailes Hill

Farm in the Lake District

Longsleddale - a beautiful but little known valley

Rehearsals from the Chipping Campden Music Festival

Jack Liebeck rehearsing Brahms with Adrian Brendel

Adrian Brendel

Rehearsing Dvorak's eighth symphony

Chipping Campden Festival Orchestra under Thomas Hull

Schubert Piano trios at the Chipping Campden Music Festival

Imogen Cooper, Henning Kraggerud and Adrian Brendel playing Schubert Piano Trios

Summer landscape

View from Meon Hill in Warwickshire

Pictures of Crete

A short trip to Crete and the chance to do some painting and drawing

A tiny church perched on a rocky peak towering over Pefki Gorge and Magrigialios

Late evening over Diaskari Bay

The graden of the historical  museum in Heraklion

Sun setting - Diaskari

Tamrisk trees provide shade by the beach

A family lunch under the trees

One of many waterfalls in Pefki Gorge