2021

Pastel | 7 x 11 inches ‘I got the photograph for this painting driving back from my 2020 exhibition. I loved taking the coast road home and this subject of the marshes under threatening skies was lovely.’

Pastel | 7.5 x 7.5 inches “This is probably one the most favourite pastel I’ve done. Everything from the surface of the paper to the colours and subject were just perfect. It was one of those paintings that I felt was impossible to mess up!”

Pastel | 7.5 x 7.5 inches “It was a bitterly cold March morning when I took the photo for this painting. The colours were amazing, the reds in the reflections in the wet mud. The silhouetted forms of the boats were great to paint.”

Pastel | 5 x 9 inches “These were some of the best waves I have ever seen. There was a strong onshore breeze that caused this lovey spray. The lost and found edges in the waves were important to create movement.”

Pastel | 5.25 x 7.5 inches “The colours of twilight never fail to inspire me. The sun had sunk into the sea but the sky was still full of colours. This view over Scarrabine farm and The Rumps is beautiful.” 

Pastel | 6 x 9 inches “I painted this during my exhibition last year as a demonstration. The colours where great to capture in pastel and it was nice to talk about it to visitors.”

Pastel | 5 x 7 inches “When travel restrictions were lifted slightly, ‘The Rumps’, a clifftop walk at Pentire Point, became a favourite place to visit with my girlfriend Elsie. I was always keen to see the cattle wintering on these fields overlooking the sea. While painting it I was reminded of the line “the

Pastel | 6.5 x 5.25 inches “When I reference my work from photographs, I always work from material I’ve taken. However, when my parents came back from Norfolk and showed me this scene, I really felt that I should paint it! I started an oil of this subject but had a niggling feeling that I

Oil on Canvas | 30 x 48 inches “I spent the afternoon painting in Zennor waiting for the Guernsey cattle herd to be walked for milking closely followed by the Holstein Friesian herd. I had befriended the famers so I knew roughly what time they would be walked although I didn’t know exactly from which

Oil on Board | 16 x 24 inches “I took inspiration for this piece on the same morning I painted ‘All Hallow Tide’. It was a great subject, made even better by the morning sun making everything glow. I particularly enjoyed painting the colour and shapes in the Cornish hedgerows.”