News & Reviews

These last few days I've been posting on Instagram and Facebook, some of the images from my painting LIMNERS which I finally completed in…Read more  →Christmas 1990

Tours around my pop- up gallery are now closed until the spring but I've just put two of my preliminary canvases in the Winer…Read more  →Closed – And Open

In 1995 I was in a toy shop in Sheringham, Norfolk and mused over whether I should buy a hand puppet of a rather…Read more  →Finding Butch

It's always fun to experiment after finishing a fairly tightly planned painting ( Old Wives Tales). For my new painting (Time Frames) I want…Read more  →Squeegeed !

I've recently started putting down ideas for my next painting, onto paper. (see my latest Instagram and Facebook posts) The working title is 'Time…Read more  →Time Frame

I think I  have finished my latest painting 'Old Wives Tales'. You can see the canvases individually on my latest Instagram and Facebook posts,…Read more  →Finished?

While in Lille last week, I made two sketches of saints (both painted by Rubens). I admit it was nice to sit down but…Read more  →When The Saints

We've just been to Ghent to see the van Eyck brothers altarpiece ' The Lamb of God'. You can see it on my latest…Read more  →Framed

I've just been to a very interesting lecture by the art historian, Martin Gayford. I ended up buying his new book 'How Painting Happens…Read more  →Starting – and Finishing

Technology makes me nervous!  I've just done the talk about my painting again which involves a laptop, a sound system and a digital projector.…Read more  →Crossed Wires