Pleased to say that both my submissions for the Williamson Open exhibition were accepted and are now proudly hanging in the Williamson Art Gallery until the 7th May . The Larger of the two “Lost…Read More »
January ’17 meeting Wirral Urban Sketchers
A good turnout for our first meeting of 2017 at Birkenhead’s Woodside Ferry Terminal. The upstairs part of the cafe overlooks the Liverpool waterfront and faced with standing outside (freezing) or sitting indoors with a…Read More »
Recent “Urban Sketches”
It occurred to me I hadn’t reported in on the recent visits ti Liverpool to sketch with Liverpool U.S. We had inclement weather on both occasions but there was plenty of good shelter and good company!…Read More »
New Prints
I have had a couple of my pictures copied and issued as a limited print run. they are being sold at Seagrass Studios and direct from myself. They have quite a graphic nature to them….Read More »
Community centre class
In the immediate pre-Christmas class at the community centre we tackled a snowy scene. I had seen something like this on Pinterest and reinterpreted it for the class project. It is a great exercise with…Read More »
Updating my work
Well I have been remiss in not posting any of my new work here on the web, so to put that right here are some recently completed watercolours. They are not large (11cm sq) but…Read More »
Wirral Urban Sketchers New Year
Happy New Year to all the Wirral Urban sketching group! We now have over a hundred members – not that we have a register, but we have 90 on Facebook and about 30 who prefer to be contacted…Read More »
Wirral Urban Sketchers up and running!
We held the first Wirral Urban Sketching group meeting on Sunday and I have to say it was a great success! 25 people turned up at Birkenhead Woodside ferry, all from varied backgrounds in Art…Read More »
A different perspective on Hilbre
Been busy over the last few days working on 3 drawings/pictures. The idea was to use single point perspective lines and colours from my sketchbook drawings made on Hilbre Island. Quite pleased with the resulting…Read More »
Wirral Urban Sketchers
I have been asked to start an Urban Sketching group on the Wirral under the wing of Wirral Society of Arts. It’s an exciting prospect and already there seems to be quite a groundswell of…Read More »
Wirral Studios Tour 2016
Well this week end coming 11/12th June is the Open Studios tour and once again I am mad busy framing up pictures, tidying up and generally making the studio ready for visitors. Last year I think…Read More »
Hoylake Art Group Afternoons
I teach a group of friends, the HAGS at Hoylake community Centre, last Friday was “paint some fruit day” and the work that was done I believe was some of the best I have seen…Read More »
Caribbean Holiday
We have just returned from a cruise in the Caribbean, not teaching this time but visiting many of our favourite islands. We were on the P&O ship the “Brittania” and visited… well let me show…Read More »
Comfort Zone Challenge
I have two great friends Adrian and Mahiyar and we take it in turns to organise events which may nudge us a little out of our comfort zones. We were chatting and I was advised by…Read More »
Urban Sketchers “Pub Sketchcrawl”
Enjoyed a super day yesterday in the company of other Urban Sketchers, and my pals Suzie Overill and Annabel Clapham. We toured a selection of Liverpool’s finest hostelries sketching, drinking, and chatting. It was cold…Read More »
Demonstration for Neston & District Art Soc.
I was delighted to be asked along to Neston & District Arts Soc last evening to give a demonstration and talk. We were made most welcome and set up my paints etc at the front…Read More »
Only a Landscape will do it
There’s times when I sit at my drawing board waiting for inspiration to strike, I find if I am doing something ,drawing something and thinking about art there’s much more chance of an idea springing…Read More »
Merry Christmas
Thought I would just say a Merry Christmas to one and all, and attach this picture Cheers!
Autumnal/Winter trees
As many of you will know one of the projects I enjoy is producing pictures with credit cards…. somehow it frees you up as you scrape paint across the surface, and I also enjoy the…Read More »
Thinking of the Caribbean!
What a horrible day! At least the wind and rain has given me an excuse to spend most of the day in the studio. I didn’t produce anything I was particularly pleased with but the…Read More »