The Summer passed very quickly and shortly after a boat trip to Battersea Power Station in August with my wife, Christine, we both caught Covid which lasted a while and wasn’t very pleasant. We were both rather ill . We hadn’t had a break this year so we took a Continue Reading
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A Very Busy 2023 so far.
It has been a very long time since I produced a blog as I have been extremely busy over the last year or so since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis, producing a fair amount of new work and having limited edition prints Continue Reading
April/May 2022
The momentous events of the last three months, the invasion of Ukraine, the energy crisis, the scandals in Parliament, the aftermath of Brexit, the economic effects of some of these events and other more personal matters have had a profound significance for me, my friends and family as we reach Continue Reading
February 2022
This month has raced by and I’m still struggling to achieve the targets I set myself, as the short days, long nights, poor light and very bad storms have taken up too much time to make room for my ambitions. On top of all this my hearing had deteriorated causing Continue Reading
January 2022 Portrait Painting – Beatles and Holocaust Survivors
So much of my art is influenced by music and those who write and perform. Arguably one of the greatest song-writing partnerships in my life-time is Lennon and McCartney and, as I mentioned in the last blog, in the build up to Christmas I watched the 8 hour film of Continue Reading
December 2021
There has been no new work to show as I’ve not picked up a paintbrush for two months! I’m hoping to do some more music based work soon as I’ve watched the brilliant Beatles eight hours footage assembled by Peter Jackson “Get Back” covering the time leading up to the Continue Reading
Ocober/November Blog
August, September and October have again been very busy for us as it was necessary to store some large paintings which had been looked after in London at La Galleria and needed to be kept here until either sold or auctioned, so I had to give serious thought where they Continue Reading
July 2021 – Elizabeth and the Galleries
July this year marks the end of an era for me as the Royal Opera Arcade galleries, La Galleria and the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, in Pall Mall are closing down. Elizabeth Mitchell D’Anna, the charismatic owner of these businesses over the last 14 years, has become a good friend Continue Reading
June 2021 Blog
Most of my painting career was spent creating conventional landscapes in watercolour or oil which were generally acceptable and sold reasonably well but as I grew older I became restless, and wanted to tackle more challenging subject matter so I switched my focus to portraits, more complex figurative work and Continue Reading
May 2021 Blog
This will probably be one of the shortest blogs ever! I’m doing a double portrait at the moment of some friends who are retiring and this picture therefore has to remain a secret until July. It requires much concentration and constant change as I’m using two old photos which are Continue Reading