Hold Me Now ll - another go at this subject - a much bigger canvas and a chance to push the medium (and myself) a bit. In this one the background is beginning to abstract and as before, I let it happen. #figurepainting #oilpainting #thesea

New work, Hold Me Now - finally resolved. Exploring feeling through colour - this feeling, being held by or doing the holding if someone you love. More coloured spots appeared while painting and I let them stay. #oilpainting #seascape

Latest project - live portrait, Alice Loves Anime, with the lovely Alice Fayee, great model and so patient! #oilpainting #portrait #paintinglive

From the archive - early 2000s - oil on panel: Time Loop, an experiment, staging an intevention into old family black and white photos using them as source material, working with imgined colour. #oilpainting #figures #memory

Here is one of a series of on-the-spot portraits from the Caribbean.This is Lemore a waiter from the Plantation hotel who insisted on wearing his sunglasses, which though challenging, in the end were a joy to paint. #paintinglive

Work in progress, Babes oil on canvas. Deep-dive memory painting with invented colour.

Just found out that this painting, Me, Myself and I, has been accepted for the Royal Watercolour Society in London! Absolutely made up. #nevergiveup #Watercolour #portrait

Deep dive memory painting with invented colour, Safe Space - oil on canvas.

Christmas Past 2024 - watercolour

Here is a video of my artist's talk at the launch of my exhibtion, it is uncut and includes a hideous Freudian faux-pas near the end, but perfectly captures the earnestnes of the moment! Profound thanks to Louise Scillitoe-Brown for filming. youtube.com/watch?v=cwaddVnG…

A digital catalogue of my recent show at the Pie Factory gallery in Margate for anyone who didn't get to see it.

It's nearly here...

Latest painting To Hold Back, which I tried to do here by pre mixing all the main colours first. More discipline - less haste - is my current motto. Happy Saturday all. Gouache on vintage (faded) Japanese paper. #comeonengland #gouachepainting #contemporarypainting #stilllife

More Pet Shop Boys @petshopboys

A lot of time sitting and looking. Another study gouache on paper. #enpleinairpainting #letshaveanothercoffee

Here is a section of the mahoosive textile piece I've been working on and during which I accidently over-ordered a gross (144!) of bendy sponge rollers but if you want to see the whole piece it will be on exhibition at the Pie Factory Gallery in October #mathsnotmystrongpoint

This one is a bit special - a painting of my lovely grandson Oscar, for Rebecca's 'special' birthday. A joy to paint and hard to give away - just as it should be. Oscar - gouache on mi teintes paper. #painting #portrait

This week I am mostly glue-gunning and swearing in about equal proportions - To Glean (detail WIP) #textileart #sculpture #contemporaryart