Toot Toot: Wolseley 1500

This painting was commissioned last autumn (2025). It depicts a Wolseley 1500 classic sports car, which vehicles were in production from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The painting was to be a Christmas present from the commissioner to their husband, who had recently bought the car depicted. I made the painting from photos…

Health benefits of fresh air and egrets

Feeling a bit under the weather lately (oh, poor me), I determined to take some air and partake of a brief constitutional along the Meols/Hoylake promenade on the Wirral coast, along which perambulation I passed this painting, which I made about 4 years ago. It’s one of several paintings made by Wirral artists – mainly…

Potter Joy

Dedicated Harry Potter fans both, my boys couldn’t wait to get their hands on a couple of Kinder Joys recently, to enjoy the yummy chocolate, and to (probably more importantly) discover the Potter figure secreted inside. Emerging from their chocolate egg encasement were 3.5 cm figures of Dumbledore himself and Severus Snape. I wanted to…

Finding Comfort in Painting

This painting, which I made in acrylics on A4 paper last year, depicts a comforter belonging to one of my children. I find recording in paint this stuff of childhood, comforting. Painting itself – which I don’t get much time for these days what with the more important demands of parenting, and a ‘proper job’…

Lego Star Wars Painting This Is

My boys’ principal obsessions this summer holiday have been, in no particular order, Star Wars, Lego, Star Wars Lego and Lego Star Wars. So, with that in mind, in the few hours I had to myself while the boys were at a summer camp today, I thought I’d have a bash at capturing a piece…