2nd March 2024
Walking by the sea is endlessly fascinating
The Wave 1
3rd January 2024
“Autumn Wind in the Hawthorns” Watercolour 56×74 cms
4th October
Another “take” on Rusey Cliffs: I didn’t walk down the coast path to the beach, it looked awfully steep!
Acrylic 80 x 80cms
15th September
It is a great joy living near the sea. This painting is made from the feeling of being on the beach at Northcott Mouth when the wind was strong and the waves were breaking on the shingle
“Pebbles Sing to the Waves” 80 x 80 cms
20th August 2023
“After Rain” Acrylic on canvas 50x70cms
26th July 2023
Just finished this view I glimpsed when driving through little lanes in Devon
“Golden Light pours through the fields” Acrylic 40×50 cms
“Duckpool waves ” watercolour 30x30cms unframed
15th June 2023
So little rain the last 6 weeks, the fields are yellow: either parched or ripening and hawthorn has given way to elderflower, and campion to foxgloves
Summer Fields Acrylic 50 x50 cms
9th June 2023
“Colours of Cornish Spring Triptych” Acrylic on panels c 80 x80 cms
1st June 2023: The Hawthorn and Cow Parsley have been abundant this spring, mixed with the acid colours of new beech hedges and the rusts and purples of new sycamore growth…
“Hawthorn and Cow Parsley” Acrylic on canvas board 50 x 50 cms
17th March 2023
This painting has been a long exploration, but now it says some of what I feel about Autumn
“Winds Rattle the Autumn Leaves” Acrylic on Canvas 80×80 cm
24th February 2023
Back in the studio, braving the damp and cold. Still playing with autumn colours whilst sketching winter trees and looking at how they scribble on the sky, waiting for a painting to emerge
Autumn’s Fires: 80 x80cms acrylic on canvas
30th December 2022
Autumn Colours Linger Into Winter
Watercolour 25x25cms
5th October 2022
Coastal Fields and Hedges: Autumn
17th September 2022
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…
“Autumn Mist” acrylic on canvas 50x50cms
1st September 2022: another lovely day plein air absorbing the colours and textures of the autumn hedges between Burdenwell and Steel in our lovely village, has resulted in this studio version.
Blackberry Time Acrylic on Canvas 80x80cms
6th August 2022
There is this field just 10 minutes walk from my door…
“August Field Margins”
24th July 2022
Continuing a theme of painting the glorious hedgerows here in Cornwall, this time in this very hot dry weather
“Rosebay Willowherb and Tall Grass”
24th June 2022
I have been backwards and forwards with this one, definitely had one of those “should have stopped earlier” moments but now happy that this has the feeling that I wanted
“Wind in the Long Grass” 80×80 acrylic on canvas
“Foxglove Summer” 80x80cms Acrylic on canvas
19th May 2022: Have been playing with this one for weeks, now I’m happy. Inspired by the glorious colours of beech, hawthorn, sycamore, bluebells, campion and cow parsley in the hedgerows and the changeable weather in the sky.
“Spring Hedges” 80x80cms Acrylic on canvas
“Inside the Wave”
Painting with the intention of “being the sea”: trying to find its strength, turbulence, the way it is acted on by other forces and thinking about abstract landscapes and trying to find gesture, strength and weather in what I paint
