Category: Paintings

Nymphea / Waterlily Oil pastels on mixed media board  297mm x 210mm (A4)

Plas Cadnant, Ynys Môn – Spring 2026 Oil pastels on mixed media board  297mm x 210mm (A4) The latest in a long series of paintings of bluebell woods, this time in a new (to me) medium: oil pastels on mixed media board.

WIP – Haight StreetOil on canvas36″ x 24″ Now, it’s just a monument to crass commercialism, if it ever wasn’t after the first brief flowering. This painting is of a group of houses, known as ‘The Painted Ladies’, on Haight Street itself.

Ghost TownOil on canvas90cm x 60cm When driving on Route 66 through Texas you eventually get to the border with New Mexico. If you leave the blacktop and take the old dirt road which follows the original route, you find Glenrio, a real-life ghost town. It was in Glenrio that I drove slowly past the… Continue reading Ghost Town

Barstow, California (Route 66)Acrylic paint on canvas40″ x 30″ A tale of painter’s block. March 2024: A painting of the main street in Barstow, California; a section of what used to be known as Route 66. It’s (in May 2024) ten years since I took the reference photo that this painting is based on. We… Continue reading Barstow, California

’59 Ford in VermontAcrylics on canvas90cm x 60cm Inspired to paint by a photograph of an abandoned ’59 Ford posted on Facebook by a friend who lives in Vermont, this is my first finished painting for almost two years…now to go back to the unfinished ones and complete them.

I was recently asked by a former student friend from Bretton Hall, Paul Todd, to provide illustrations for a series of very strange short stories that he has written. These are the drawings I have produced for him.

Not Dark YetOil on Linen60cm x 80cm After a year of ill-health, and over eight months of no painting, I finally returned to my easel and made a new painting. A subject for my work eluded me; I spent most of the last year sitting staring out of the window – or at the television… Continue reading Not Dark Yet