“Royal Arcade” Weymouth Oil on canvas 48″ x 36″ A very large oil painting on canvas of an amusement arcade in Weymouth, Dorset. Painted in 2022 #oilpainting #weymouth #dorset #rossisices #royalarcade
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Princes Street, Edinburgh
Princes Street, Edinburgh Oil on canvas 40″ x 30″ A snapshot at the heart of one of Edinburgh’s busiest tourist areas on a rainy May Day in 2017, painted in 2019. #edinburgh #princesstreet #oilpainting
WIP – Haight Street
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 Town
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
’58 Chevy Apache
’58 Chevy ApacheAcrylics on canvas90cm x 60cm This painting of an abandoned ’58 Chevy Apache 36, rotting outside the derelict Ranch House Café, just outside Tucumcari, New Mexico is taken from a series of photographs made in May 2014. Even the most casual internet image search pulls up loads of photos of this decaying relic… Continue reading ’58 Chevy Apache
Barstow, California
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 Vermont
’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.
Weird World
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.