I am attaching here a sheet of watercolour exercises which students are free to download. Some of the icons have featured in my recent demonstrations and workshops. The idea being that they are a popular…Read More »
Enjoyed a wonderful morning in Chester (Saturday 6th April 2024) with a large group of Urban sketchers drawn from many different places, The “Draw on Tour” group were visiting and Liverpool decided to switch their…Read More »
Enjoyed a lovely morning in the studio attempting to teach a couple of pals the nuances of watercolour painting. Surprising how hard it can be when you know the people well to effectively teach in…Read More »
Delighted to have had two of my pictures selected for the Wirral open at the Williamson Art Gallery, and even more delighted to say that one of them sold! I thought the exhibition beautifully showcased…Read More »
Had a lovely day today with T.A.G. over at Waverton near Chester. Super venue and a warm welcome . Demonstration with a bit of a difference trying to cover six topics in the allotted two…Read More »
My New Year’s resolution was to post here much more regularly…..and now it’s March, how did that happen? 2023 was very busy with art projects, workshops, demos and the like and I thoroughly enjoyed each…Read More »
Enjoyed a super day last Friday with the Avenue Art Group up in Garstang. The workshop was focussed on a summer landscape in the “mosaic” style and they produced some very fine work . some…Read More »
I have been working on some ideas for a workshop and demo I shall be doing for Garstang Art group next Friday. The idea is to produce a sunny, summer, landscape view. The style is…Read More »
I saw this cartoon on FaceBook and I think it is just brilliant! Many students in my classes hold the belief that skill in art is somehow something you are born with. It is not!…Read More »
Just finished a watercolour of Wirral Golf Club (formerly Wirral Ladies). the picture is taken from a sketch I did just before Christmas when we had the heavy frost and snow. It was a beautiful…Read More »
As reported the other day I have just returned from a teaching post on Cunard’s Queen Victoria. We stopped at a number of interesting ports and enjoyed some tris ashore which of course included some…Read More »
Just returned from a cruise on Cunard’s Queen Victoria where I was running some watercolour workshops. Super trip and was lucky enough to enjoy the company of some very fine artists in the classes. The…Read More »
I visited the Tate Liverpool gallery this week to have a look at the Turner exhibition entitled “Dark Waters” It is a collection of many of his famous Sea Paintings with a soundtrack devised by…Read More »
This is a sketch of the Liverpool waterfront from the Wirral side. A favourite view of mine and one that very often leads me to getting “bogged down” in detail. So I was quite pleased…Read More »
Posting a picture of one of my latest artworks…. Quite a therapeutic, an almost autobiographical piece! It is a series of icons gathered as one, alluding to shapes used in architectural plans yet rolling these…Read More »
Very excited to say that I have a position on the Queen Victoria teaching watercolour painting. We are sailing from Southampton in November taking in some of the sights of Europe sailing south to the…Read More »
in preparation for the forthcoming workshop I am doing at Cass Art in Liverpool I thought I should do a few sketches close by to the store in the hope that we can get out…Read More »
Sunny but cold morning for the Liverpool Urban sketchers meeting based at Picton Library Liverpool. It was good to meet up with some sketchers I hadn’t seen since the start of the pandemic! I chose…Read More »
I have been preparing some additional Information sheets for forthcoming workshops and classes and attach here a couple of the individual sheets I have prepared . There is a huge variety of pens that an…Read More »
We have decided to add a new section on the website for the “memory pictures” I have been doing over the past year or so. In fact ever since I appeared on the BBC programme…Read More »