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Churchill

15 May 2024

A Picture of My Martha and her Field Friends

25 October 2019

Christopher Nolan

25 October 2019

Commission: A Friend's Late Father

25 October 2019

Commission: Chinese Grandparents

25 October 2019

Commission: Grandson on a Farm in Libya

25 October 2019

Martha as a Puppy

25 October 2019

Alfie

27 September 2018

Nigel

This is Nigel, a magnificent Golden Retriever. I love the way his glimmering hair looks like gold cascading down a mountain

19 October 2017

Notorious

Pug in a bowtie

28 September 2017

The Creation of: Liam Allen

The development of Liam Allen.

14 April 2017

The Creation of: Oscar

I completed this commission for Michael Marks, Sports Masseuse extraordinaire at the Virgin Active Health and Racquets Club.

10 April 2017

Horse in the Field with a Golden Dawn

The colour of the sun here reminds of a line a East of Eden by John Steinbeck, where he is describing the colour of the crop in the field: 'not gold, but as if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the colour...'

6 April 2017

A Commission: Booja

See the development of Booja, a commission done for Lynda Johnson for her twin sister in Australia. He's all grown up now.

3 April 2017

The Creation of: A Little Puppy

I saw this little fella in the vets whilst taking my girl in. I asked for a picture and, voila!

29 March 2017

Nawal: An Original Commission

Luckily, I managed to garner great inspiration from this piece. Nawal has an inherent glamour to her, and the specific pose in this image reinforces and bolsters her appeal in this regard. It's rather moody, but also natural - a hard mix to capture. But it's uniqueness meant that I found it easy to

16 January 2017

Jessica: A Christmas Present

Jessica is a gentle, kind, warm and non-flashy girl. She is considerate to a fault and in twenty one years I've never heard her say a bad thing about anyone - although she did one suffer a propensity for laziness

11 January 2017

The Creation of: Molly

Representation in terms of angle, proportion, size and colour is. of course, the primary importance - but feeling and atmosphere, the ghostly, not-quite-definable qualities of a portrait, are what truly capture the subject and give the initial impact.

9 January 2017

Jack: An Original Commission

The grossly unfair 'spec' of time that we have with our beloved pets is made that much more poignantly painful when they were the recipients of our parental pinning too. It's heart-wrenching! I can tell that even without being a parent yet myself.

5 January 2017

Double-Think: Striving to be Unhappy

Prior to these days of easy teases into the life of the extraordinary rich by watching one of a multiplying number of odious TV shows or twitter feeds, the average guy didn't have extravagance rubbed in his face at all times. He didn't know what he was missing, so to speak. But, knowing exactly what

15 December 2016

Emergence

I want to emphasis the textures of the room, from fuzzy fur to the obdurate brickwork; from luscious leather to the cold, steal log-burner.

13 December 2016

A Creation of: Ann Joyce

I've already completed a portrait of Ann, for which I will release a blog entry soon, painted from an indoor scene. This a study of her in an outdoor light. There is no heavily glint of light from the corneas and her shiny indoor complexion reacts with the light differently in the sunshine. It picks

12 December 2016

Timelapse: Leather Bound

A timelapse of a self-portrait. Enjoy!

19 November 2016

Prince's Trust Donation: The Queen

17 November 2016

Commission: John's 70th Birthday Portrait Surprise

A commission of John completed as a surprise gift for his 70th birthday. His partner, Anne, said it was a 'great success'.

2 November 2016

Painting: The Hidden Music

Atmosphere is it's unique impression, its passion, it's energy. It is a quality quite removed from the more apparent qualities. A painting's realism or accuracy doesn't necessarily affect the mood it emits: a more crudely painted picture can have far more atmosphere than a photo-realistic piece that

5 October 2016

Leather Bound

'Enough detail so that as your peripherals drink in the background they are unaware of the lack of sharpness until they focus on it'

17 September 2016

Darcey Again

'In her elegant and statuesque pose, Darcy gives of an aura of strength and grace'

7 September 2016

Either/Or: First Past the Post v Proportional Representation

'In the 2015 election, UKIP tallied nearly 4 million votes, although they didn't manage to get a single seat in parliament. The SNP, on the other hand, got just over a third of the votes UKIP received but managed to get 50 seats in the Commons.'

1 September 2016

The Creation of: Mikey

'I didn't want to relinquish the crudeness that was bestowed upon the painting with the thumb and finger painting. I think it adds a charm'

29 August 2016

Lazy Days

Sometimes extra detail crystalizes the emotion of the painting with greater precision - sometimes it robs the painting of the passionate effect that a less complete stage of the painting had emitted. The trick is to trust yourself - once you have it, leave it or risk losing it.

23 August 2016

Despair

It's an artistic representation of a reduction of despair - as though despair could be simmered in a pan until in reaches a thick, sticky bitumen.

22 August 2016

Double-Think: The Pharmaceutical Industry

'There can be little doubt that pharmacological intervention has improved the lot of human beings - eased pain, killed infections, treated diabetes etc. But it is a business. It is making huge profits as a business and we humans are it's market... we, as their consumers, basically go on trust.'

22 August 2016

Intimacy

With Intimacy, I'm trying to capture her experience, give the observer a peek into her existence, her life.

19 August 2016

Either/Or: Capitalism vs Socialism

Whilst we watch the political game unfold, there is an underlying current of contest, and that contest is Capitalism vs Socialism. What's the difference?

11 August 2016

Philip Green: The Greasy Cash Guzzler

25 July 2016

Why is Everything so 'Amazing'?

9 July 2016

Darcey

7 July 2016

Politics: Elections & Referendums

5 July 2016

Shapes upon Shapes!

27 June 2016

My Niece Ella

17 June 2016

The Doctor

10 June 2016

Mazy Again!

31 May 2016

Mazy and Cousin

27 May 2016

HRH Prince Charles - Prince's Trust

27 April 2016

Reading Contemporary Art Fair

27 April 2016

Step-by-step of a technique I use

26 November 2015

Local Project: Charlie the stylist

Only outlines at the moment. Charlie from Enzo's hair-dressers in Datchet is excited to see how he's turned out.

5 October 2015

How it all came about

4 October 2015

Kickstarting The Local Project

I've had tremendous support from some local businesses in kickstarting my career in portraiture. David from Clairmonts in Windsor jumped in with two feet.

4 October 2015