Gallery

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

Acrylic on canvas20″ x 16″ It’s a long story…

“Nubble Light”Oil on canvas90cm x 60cm Nubble Light, in Maine. I’ve already painted it – twice – before, in watercolour. This time it’s getting the full blown oils on large canvas treatment. The photo I’m using for reference was taken on our last holiday before lockdown, when we toured New England for three weeks in… Continue reading Nubble Light

The Jelly DonutAcrylic on Board16″ x 20″ The town of 29 Palms, not far from Joshua Tree. ‘The Jelly Donut’; they had no jelly donuts and the coffee was undrinkable. The temperature was 103ºF (see below)

SupportersAcrylic on canvas30″ x 24″ September 2012 at Accrington Stanley

Bretton HallOil on canvas 30″ x 24″ Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds (2001–2007). It is a Grade II* listed building. Wikipedia Entry I lived there from 1968 –… Continue reading Bretton Hall

Broadway NewsOil on canvas90cm x60cm Based on a photo I took in Accrington town centre in September 2012.

Peel Park, Accrington 1964Oil on canvas90cm x 60cm This is the former home of Accrington Stanley, who had left the Football League two years earlier. The part of Accrington, from the church spire on the left (where I went to school and church), to the three chimneys centre-right, is where I lived for the first… Continue reading Peel Park, Accrington 1964