2020 update #1
I have been neglecting my website terribly this year. I have no excuses for this other than being busy and focussed on making new work. Although things have been very far from normal across the globe for the last few…
Cosmos
I have finally organised my photos and put them onto my computer, so I can hopefully catch up with uploading the bits and pieces that I’ve been experimenting with over the last few months. To get started, here’s a little…
White Lilac
Another painting from a few months ago, this one of white lilac. Thinking that the delicate blossom wouldn’t last very long, I worked quickly and looked for big structural shapes within the larger heads, before picking out a few details…
Garlic with the blue and white jug
Well, it’s been quite a while since my last post. Many other things got in the way over the summer months, not least some ill health, and art has been the area to suffer. I’ve got a few new pieces…
Tomatoes on the Vine
A fairly rapid oil sketch of some vine tomatoes and the paper bag they arrived home in. I tried to not to fuss each brush mark, and to put down thicker paint and little medium to see how things fused…
Something for Fun
In due course I’ll probably paint over these, but in the meantime, they are a bit of fun. I enjoyed not really thinking too much about composition, and in the case of the Sharpies, cracking open some of my lesser…
Duck Eggs
I painted these duck eggs (in a white ceramic egg holder) over an old figure study that wasn’t worth keeping hold of. I intended this to be a high-key painting, with subtle, pale hues conveying a sense of calm. Instead,…
Floral Painting
I find flowers so difficult to paint. They can be structural, but delicate; with light both reflected by, but also travelling through, petals and leaves. To achieve true softness and believability is such a challenge. In many ways, I don’t…
Bergamots on a Delft Plate
In more palette experimentation, I didn’t use any earth colours in this painting; relying on a palette containing Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue and White. I again used minimum medium and found the texture…
