Looking back, looking forward.

2013 has been a great year. I think at the outset I was determined it was going to be a good one. 2012 had been pretty shit, I badly broke my ankle, and then, having recovered from that, was diagnosed with cancer. There seems to be a general view that skin cancer is...

Art Competitions.

I’ve been spreading myself far and wide in the past couple of months entering pretty much every art competition going. My painting ‘Stags in Rut’ was awarded ‘Commended’ in its category in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the year, and I was...

New Work

Another Labrador!Lovely big dog, who had a weird habit of ‘grinning’, cute in real life but looks like an alarming snarl in photos – I choose a more traditional pose. Another commission for two more labs has just come in, plus the big painting of a...

Bespoke Children Portraits

This is the first children’s commission I’ve undertaken, and it turned out pretty well. This method works so well for children (or dogs) and looks very dramatic when framed and hung. I also had a set of cards printed, great for thank yous!Some of...

Shepherd linocut

ShepherdI love this wistful old fashioned image of a shepherd, his dog, and some feisty sheep. This lino cut was based on some photos taken in Scotland, of Angus, the gamekeeper, shooing away some sheep, with his none too helpful Labrador. I’ve painted Angus...