Gallery

“Lexington Candy Shop” NYCOil and Acrylic on Canvas40″ x 30″ I used to be really ignorant about coffee and thought that Starbucks was the be-all and end-all of coffee shops. Especially in New York City where there seems to be one on every block. To be fair, sometimes they are the only sensible option when… Continue reading “Lexington Candy Shop” NYC

“Caffe Reggio” NYCOil on canvas40″ x 30″ No 3 in a series of …? A jumbo-sized canvas for this, the third NYC ‘storefront’ painting. It’s almost seven years since I last visited NYC, so turning my old photos into paintings is a trip down memory lane…in this case, MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. See a… Continue reading “Caffe Reggio” NYC

“Block Drugstores” NYCOil on canvas30″ x 24″ My second NYC storefront. In my studio, with Winter and Covid outside, it’s nice to cross the Atlantic and revisit New York, a city which has so many happy memories for me.

“Ralph’s Discount City” NYCOil on canvas36” x 24” I love American popular style and iconography, I have taken many photos across America and done a few paintings…this is the latest.

Heaven Is A Bluebell Wood IVOil on canvas90cm x 60cm

The Four Horsemen (after Dürer) Acrylic on canvas 60 cm. x 90 cm. Five years ago I retired from work and decided I was going to go back to painting. I made an oil painting based on a photo I took on a recent holiday. I still have that painting, it’s the first on this… Continue reading The Four Horsemen (after Dürer)

Don QuixoteAcrylic on board16” x 20” Inspired by Sickert’s ‘English Echoes’ (series Walter Sickert made in the late 1920s and early 1930s which he described as ‘Echoes’. They were mainly copied from Victorian illustrations which he found in old editions of the Illustrated London News and similar publications).

Primary ColoursAcrylics on board20” x 16”