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Launderette Love

I finished this painting today, I started it a few weeks back. It is my first piece of 2023. A bit later than planned. I particularly loved painting the reflections and the signage. This was a gouache piece with pen on some watercolour paper. This is my only piece completed which contains a person. It’sContinue reading “Launderette Love”

New Year Thoughts

I have really struggles to find art time over the winter, I have great thoughts of doing things but the small things get in the way. It is just over a year since I started selling work. Here are some things I have learned: So in 2023 I am aiming to complete some sketchbook workContinue reading “New Year Thoughts”

Summer is over

I had all good intentions over the summer, to try to complete 1 painting a week. Unfortunately the weeks came and went and I managed just a few, but quite a lot of thinking. Firstly, I finished this commission of Chandos Motors on Albany Road, Earlsdon, Coventry. This is a combination of buildings, some ofContinue reading “Summer is over”

A love for buildings over time

I have always had a love of buildings. These photos of mini shrine type structures are work from my degree show back in 1994 and were based on the architectural forms I spotted on travels. My degree was in ceramics and I was drawn to fragile buildings, textures, small windows and doors, archways and chimneys.Continue reading “A love for buildings over time”

Stirring Memories

By far the most exciting thing about completing a painting is the feedback I hear from people who share memories or any feeling the paining has evoked. These two paintings from the Coventry collection have received the most lovely and personal feedback over the last few months, some of the memories shared are so specialContinue reading “Stirring Memories”

What’s important?

This painting is nearly complete, another few hours will get it there. What I loved? – painting the yellow stripes. What I didn’t like? – painting the red stripes. Different to other paintings in that the viewpoint is from above, up the steps that once led to Busters nightclub, now fenced off. The tarmac wasContinue reading “What’s important?”