October 2023 Covid and after

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

April 2017 Blog An encounter with Paula Rego, Portraits and Storytelling

I’ve lost confidence in the last few weeks about my ability to achieve consistently good likenesses with my portrait painting. My success rate at the moment in the last three attempts is not good –  Dame Judi Dench poor, Syd Barrett poor, Dame Paula Rego reasonable. Some artists are able Continue Reading