Just returned from a great couple of days in Venice. It was a spontaneous trip to take advantage of perfect conditions and I got exactly what I was hoping for. Venice is much quieter in winter (not to mention colder!). The days are short, the shadows are long and the...
Over the last 6 months I’ve been working towards my upcoming exhibition; ‘New paintings of the Lake District’ so I’ve spent quite some time up there, looking for new and interesting things to paint. There’s certainly no shortage of...
I recently returned from a great painting trip to California, where I’ve been itching to go for a while. I wanted to get an American twist on the cows theme and to see that legendary coastline, the Big Sur. I had hoped that both would be worth a long haul flight...
We moved house last month and now that we’ve finally got plenty space, I finally got my chickens! Meet Penny and her brood of 11 chicks. OK she’s not the prettiest hen you’ve ever seen (truth be told, I can’t remember ever seeing a scraggier one), but then she has...
My 8 year old daughter Amelie, and her class from school recently paid a visit to my studio to watch me paint. Following a quick look round the gallery, they sat down on my studio floor to watch how a cow came about. Using large brushes to put down broad areas of...
I know that the popular notion of an artist’s day is of floating around, ‘Waiting for Inspiration’ but for most artists, it just couldn’t work like that! As with most professions, you have to work pretty hard to make a living from it and that means very little hanging...
