The acrylic painting I did a few weeks ago ‘Realm of the fire bellied water baboon’ has been collected today… the woman who bought it loves my artwork and I love the conversations we have about art. We both share a love of art and find that our creativity bounces off each other with ideas. […]
This week I have received a wonderfully heartwarming email from someone called Craig….here are the main parts of the email he sent to me…. I would like to start by thanking you for the ‘blogs’ you have on your website, and what a profound affect these snippets of your existence have had on me; and […]
Stuart Haywood mentioned to me a few weeks ago that he wanted to see if the Guardian newspaper would be interested in his experience for their article for changes in life after 60…because he had become a naturist, and that was all down to me! Stuart had never been naked infront of anyone other than […]
Its always with interest and intrigue and hope that we look forward to new years and wonder what they will bring us. But its also a time of year that we are reminded of what the previous year has been…and I was reminded of that big time at the New Years Eve party I went […]
As this year draws to a close (and I love that pun as an artist!) I am absolutely delighted with the many diverse pieces of artwork I’ve done… At the start of the year I painted a simple commission of ‘Blue bird tree’ in acrylics on canvas with gold metallic paint for the background. There […]
Over Christmas I was delighted to see one of my favourite films… and even though I must have seen it at least four times over the years I thought I’d watch it again….and found that I was totally enthralled with it all over again. The film was ‘Oliver Twist’ – the 1948 black and white […]
It’s that time of year when I’ve finished the commissions I’ve done for clients for Christmas and I can sit back and relax. It’s also the time of year when its a joy to hear from family and friends wishing me a happy Christmas with cards and messages and catching up on news over this […]
I was asked to do this latest commission a couple of weeks ago, working from a photo of the couple in question. The client didn’t specify which medium it was to be painted in, so I suggested acrylics as I prefer them for the way I can get a likeness for portraits and people. The […]
Ooohh…. I’ve just been asked to do another interesting commission, a totally different one to the one I finished last week. This one will be a painting in acrylics, of two people. How exciting. Can’t wait to get started on it…
The client who last week wanted me to do this pen and ink drawing as a gift for Christmas for a member of his family gave me plenty of photos of the house to choose from. He didn’t specify which I was to use, and left it to me to decide which I would. All […]
I’m always happy to get a commission to do for a client for Christmas. The conversation via email started yesterday, when someone asked me if it was possible to do a pen and ink drawing of a house in Shropshire for someone elses Christmas present. I replied it was possible, and fortunately I was given […]
Our cat Amber died today. She was 18 and deaf and died peacefully in her sleep, in the shed where she lived. When we moved to Kent three and a half years ago the couple we bought the house from asked if we’d take on the responsibility of the two female cats who had only […]
As you know I love a challenge in creating artwork and painting pictures. I had a thought a few weeks ago about how much I love painting water, and I love painting quirky animals, so what about putting them together in a painting with fire as well, I liked the idea of the animals being […]
I’ve finished the commission I was asked to do for clients a few weeks ago…and I’ve finished the autumnal gardening jobs that have to be done at this time of year when the weather is mild and sunny enough, and before the winter rains come. That took two weeks or so to do… So now […]
I was asked a few weeks ago to paint a commission for a couple, they wanted an erotic painting of themselves showing their love for each other and I was shown three ideas as a suggestion for the pose for the painting. My gut reaction was one in particular, as it had a better interaction […]
