A very happy Christmas and all best wishes for a peaceful 2023
The Gate Keepers Cottage
Friday, 23 December 2022
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Blackheath Art Society Winter Exhibition starts tomorrow!
Come and visit Blackheath Halls to see an amazing array of local talent brighten and dazzle the walls of the halls! Your chance to treat yourself or someone special to a lasting gift that will keep on giving.
Below is a detail from my submission for this year's show showing part of a well-known building in Greenwich - can you guess where it is? A clue - you may not have seen it like this for some time!
Sunday, 11 September 2022
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - Beeches - Lyme Regis
While staying in Seaton in the 1990's Cristiana and I took a trip to Lyme Regis in Dorset. Lyme Regis had a very different feel to Seaton somewhat grandeur and with a feeling of space. These beeches near Lyme Regis seemed to some up that feeling of inherited grandeur.
Or the original watercolour painting on show at this exhibition, 624mm x 484mm, £495.
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Monday, 29 August 2022
Sunday, 28 August 2022
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - Meet the Artist - THANK YOU!
It was a great pleasure to see so many friends and family who stayed to chat and create a lovely buzz and and to meet new people who turned up yesterday at the 'Meet the Artist' session. It was a huge surprise that so many people came along and I was sorry not to be able to offer food and drink as the event was held in library hours. Thank you for making the effort to come it was greatly appreciated and I hope you enjoyed meeting friends old and new again as much as I did.
Saturday, 27 August 2022
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - Meet the Artist
I will be in the library today from 2 - 4 pm. Come along to view some bonus extras for sale - books, postcards, prints and paintings, or just to say hello and a chat!
Some of the paintings I will be bringing with me just for today...
Mittenwald, Bavaria, watercolour and guoche, £350.
Poppy Field and Farm, watercolour and gouache, £550.
Dazzle on the Darent, watercolour and gouche, £350
Hope to see you there!
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
Sunday, 21 August 2022
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - Meet the Artist
Sadly my eyesight and hearing no longer permit me to give talks so this event is a very casual affair, a table with some works for sale and the opportunity to chat to anyone who comes along....
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - The Ones That Got Away (or some of them)!
There is never enough room to show all the works that you would like to. Here are some of the ones that got away (this time!)....
San Braz, Portugal - sold
A Bank Near Helford Passage
Kentish Landscape
Old Moorings Near Wivenhoe - sold
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Orchard at Bere Ferrers, Cornwall - sold
School Steps, Dartmouth
Scotney Castle, Kent - sold
The Lizard, Cornwall - sold
To see the ones that didn't get away please visit...
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
Monday, 15 August 2022
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - St Davids, Wales (print)
In the early 1980's Cristiana and I visited beautiful St Davids in Wales, Britain's smallest city, where I completed this oil painting.
St Davids - available as a print
Cristiana at St Davids adding some colour to the scene.
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
Saturday, 13 August 2022
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - Hastings by Moonlight
Some years ago Cristiana and I had a lovely holiday in Hastings. Although I have not completed many 'moonlight' paintings they are some of my favourite works, especially the eerie night scenes of Samuel Palmer. With this painting, 'Hastings by Moonlight' (on show in the exhibition "Have Palette, Will Travel") I used my artistic licence to paint in the daytime and add the moonlight after!
Hastings by Moonlight. Watercolour & Gouache, size 595 x 400mm (framed and mounted) £495
Below is another of my moonlight works (though not on show in this exhibition as it has sold).
'New Moon, New City' - sold
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
Thursday, 11 August 2022
"Have Palette, Will Travel" - Alpine Mist (print)
In the 1970's we had many happy holidays in Bavaria staying in the flat of some good friends in Mittenwald. The mountains were close by and we went on many walks. The painting below was made sitting on a mountain path where everything seemed to happen at once; low cloud suddenly appeared, a lizard ran across my foot and a butterfly alighted on my shoulder!
Alpine Mist - available as a print
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
Monday, 1 August 2022
'Have Palette, Will Travel' - Tower Pier
In the early 1960's I wanted to make a drawing of the cannons that used to be located on Tower Pier by the Tower of London. I was waiting until the children had gone but they were having so much fun that the family decided to sit down and have their lunch so they all ended up being in the drawing too!
Tower Pier 1962 Pencil drawing, size 372 x 300mm £320
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
'Have Palette, Will Travel' - Jump for Joy!
I like to sometimes focus on a detail in a landscape. 'Jump for Joy' is a watercolour painting based on a sketch I made of a tree. The location now escapes me but it had a striking profile and appeared to be dancing!
'Jump for Joy', framed mixed media, 600 x 480mm, £495
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
Saturday, 30 July 2022
'Have Palette, Will Travel' - Morin Heights Print Detail
In the 1970's I visited Canada with my son and we had a most memorable holiday staying with good friends. The image below is a detail from a print of a watercolour I made (now long sold) of a chalet in the Laurentian mountains. The dog bathing in the sunlight on the porch is 'Vicki', our friends rescue dog.
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Detail from print 'Morin Heights' Quebec Province.
On the 20th August I had a very special visit from my good friend Susan Stanley, on holiday from Canada, who gave us this most memorable holiday. It was a joy to see her again after so many years.
Happy Memories...
Morin Heights chalet
The Gallery Space – West Greenwich Library
West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN. Tel: 020 8858 4289
Monday 15th August - Saturday 17th September 2022
Special dates: “Meet the Artist” Saturday 27th August 2 – 4pm
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