This painting depicts my two sons walking along Blackpool promenade, near the South Pier, in the glow of a wintry afternoon. Based on a photograph taken in in the first week or two of the year, the painting was completed between January and June this year. I was particularly drawn to photograph and subsequently paint…
Tag: acrylics
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’…
