A little Sunday afternoon painting of miniature Tete-a-Tete Jonquillas with a couple of walnuts… just for the randomness and challenge of painting them.
This was very nearly wiped out, but I felt it had just enough going for it to save it. That said, it’s not satisfactory and I suspect I will paint something else on the other side of the panel –…
This is a terrible photo of a short portrait study that I finished this week. I haven’t worked on these particular gesso panels very much, and I really noticed how much this support altered my painting technique. For example, fusing…
This has been a really fun little study in preparation for a commission to paint Bessie perhaps at a bigger scale… although as of yet I’m not sure which direction to take. In the meantime however, I’m immensely pleased with…
Here’s a large portrait project that I’m currently working on. So far it’s going well and is at a good stage to leave alone for a few days before returning to it next week (where it could all go wrong)….
This week we started a little after school anatomy class in Salisbury. Organised by my fellow students, Alastair Barford and Caroline, the main focus of each weekly class will be the lectures of Robert Beverly Hale. There are ten lectures…
To get the year started, here’s a small nude study painted just before Christmas. Seen alongside some of the other small studies I’ve been working on recently, it adds to quite a nice, cohesive little collection. Back to work on…


