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I've not been able to get out to paint much recently, one reason being the return of the 'whirling pits' (vertigo) which I won't dwell on! Onto a [...]

It's been a while since I posted anything so time to remedy that! It's generally been a pretty wet January but there have been the odd glimpses [...]

Just returned from the private view for the 2013 annual exhibition with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries in London. Great to see [...]

I've managed to grab a small handful of outdoor sessions recently and tried to take advantage of the decent light/sunshine we've had over the last couple of [...]

Last week I spent an enjoyable day with some ROI members and friends at the Winsor and Newton HQ in Shepherd's Bush. We had the added bonus [...]

Another quick jaunt up to the North Norfolk coast and I managed to get four paintings done, accompanied by some unusually hot sunshine which I've been trying [...]

At the weekend the forecast was so good I decided to head for North Norfolk and soak up the sunshine by the sea. I set off at [...]

Just over a week ago I spent a mostly sunny Saturday painting with Graham Webber down at Heybridge in Essex. Graham is a very talented artist who knows [...]

The urns in the palace gardens made great painting subjects. My first attempt was an 8x16in, focusing exclusively on the urn and framed nicely by the dark [...]

We spent a fair amount of time in the grounds of the Royal Palace of Alcazar and despite it being busy with tourists it still felt like [...]