Belsize Village (10″ x 12)” Belsize village is not easy to get to by car and the most direct route brings you to a dead end just before the village itself. When you finally discover the route in and manage to park it is a delight to behold. The corner shop is a ablaze with…
Early morning Walton Place, Knightsbridge (12″ x 10″) I painted this over two sessions early one morning when none was around. This is the first time I have managed to get a parking spot tight outside Harrods. I have passed the street many times and always fancied painting it and now I have.
Kenwood House Garden Side 10″ x 12″ This picture was painted in two stages and I made sure the weather and time was identical. I waited for about an hour on the second sitting hoping that someone would sit on one of the benches as with no figures and compositionally it was looking like an…
Kenwood House from the Lake Side (10″ x 12″ unframed size) This painting was completed during the third week of April during a week of clear blue skies and temperatures around 16c. Although Kenwood house is painted a brilliant white it is rarely visible as such as it reflects the surrounding light and colours. On…
This is the tow path in Little Venice and it was my entry for the Pintar Rapido competition this year. I did not win the competition but sold the painting. The painting had to be completed in one day. The painting is 20″ x 24″ unframed (SOLD)
Peonies, Hydrangeas and Eucolyptus (24″ x 20″ unframed size). (NOT FOR SALE) I had never given floral painting much thought until I was introduced to the paintings by the French artist Henri Fantin Latour. This was 15 years ago when I was commissioned by an American client to copy two from the originals in the…
Rosslyn Hill Hampstead (24″ x 20″) £950.00 (framed) This painting was started the week after the smaller 10″ x 12″ version and involved two sessions on site followed with a little tweaking in the studio. I have tried to maintain the spontaneity of the smaller painting but introduced a little more detail. It was only…
The Petroleum Plant Elefsima Athens 12″ x 10″ unframed size Sounding a little bit like a medical condition, Elefsina is an industrial suburb of Athens and I should not think it is high on anyones holiday itinerary. I stayed there a week ago with friends and found it to be a delightful working town and…
Two churches and a Graveyard (Castro in Sifnos Greece) 10″ x 12″ If I had to pegged it somewhere outside of the UK and could choose my plot, it would be here in the depth of the valley in Castro Sifnos. I painted this looking down from a mountain road listening to the chimes of…
The Hampstead Triptych 10″ x 36″ (unframed size) Last year I created this triptych based on some of my favourite locations in North London, the Hampstead viaduct, the Rose Garden and the Hampstead Ponds. Painting the sites within a close timeframe helped create a harmonious colour relationship within the work.