Some new still lives

It's cold outside and I have been painting indoors. Will get out soon...... I hope!!

Building sites

Paintings based on drawings of a building site. I like the way the scaffolding forms a grid into which the figures fit

New London pictures

Cafe at the Ashmolean

The last time I was in Oxford at the Ashmolean I made this drawing downstairs in the cafe and then worked it up into a painting. I'm very pleased to say that it has been preselected for the Royal Society of British Artists' show at the Mall Galleries in March.

Back at the National Gallery

Another couple of pictures based on observations at the National Gallery. How much is the desire to look at pictures based on what people are told about them rather than their own interest and enjoyment?

Paintings from a trip to Italy

Italy is a wonderful place to paint and draw; every hill has a farm or a town, a church or a castle on it surrounded by cypresses, umbrella pines and olive trees. 

A day at the Drawing Circus!

The Drawing Circus is based in Brighton and puts on extraordinary events which are a cross between lifedrawing and theatre. Accompanied by live music "The Drawchestra"!! groups of models mostly dressed in elaborate circus costumes form tableaus for varying amounts of time. It's an amazing atmospheric experience and here are some of the results...
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