Category: Paintings

St Ives HarbourOil on canvas90cm x 60cm All done – my painting of the harbour in St Ives, Cornwall, from a position on the harbour wall. I can’t think of much to say about it at the moment, except it turned out to be a lot more difficult to paint than I expected, but I’m… Continue reading St Ives Harbour

Hollywood HillsOil on canvas90cm x 60cm At last, my painting of the Hollywood Hills is completed – it’s finally finished, I let it dry and then went back and tweaked the bits that needed tweaking. It no longer feels like some ordeal that was never going to end. When I started it, I knew it… Continue reading Hollywood Hills

Del Marcos HotelOil on canvas60cm x 90cm One of my favourite places ever! The Del Marcos Hotel, a ‘midcentury modern’ masterpiece in Palm Springs, California. The point of view is from our bedroom. This painting shows the hotel pool before development work was started on the adjacent lot, it is no longer as good a… Continue reading Del Marcos Hotel

Chester Market Hall 1967Oil on canvas90cm x 60cm My very first commission, this picture was painted to hang in a new coffee shop in Chester. Although I usually work from my own photographs and sketches, this picture needed to be different, as I was asked to paint something from Chester’s past. As the coffee shop… Continue reading Chester Market Hall 1967

Midcentury Modern HouseOil on canvas1500cm x 1000cm This picture is so big, I could barely get the canvas in my car, nor on my easel! It shows a ‘Midcentury Modern’ house designed by Donald Wexler in Palm Springs. The excerpt below is from a website which actually features a photograph of this particular house: Spotlight:… Continue reading Midcentury Modern House

Times SquareOil on canvas90cm x 60cm I decided to be ambitious and paint a view of one of my least-favourite parts of Manhattan. The photos I used date from 2011 when, because of a hurricane, our trip to NYC was delayed by several days. Unfortunately our luggage was delayed even longer and didn’t arrive until… Continue reading Times Square

Home to CarlisleOil on canvas90cm x 60cm This picture shows Accrington Stanley at home to Carlisle on a mild January day in 2017. I took loads of photos over several games until I managed to find enough information to make a stab at representing a game. Without any doubt, the hardest part was painting the… Continue reading Home to Carlisle

Mission BeachOil on canvas80cm x 60cm My first oil painting in almost forty years was this one of Mission Beach, San Diego, on a gloriously sunny Labor Day in 2016. The photograph it’s based on was a hasty snap on my phone to send home to our son and daughter. It’s pretty much just a… Continue reading Mission Beach