My space at the Inky-Cuttlefish Clearance Sale

Moving out of Inky-Cuttlefish in January 2015

Pastel still-life: at Questors Theatre Ealing

A small exhibition of pastel drawings from life, from the late 1980s. I joined a private art school in Holland Park, which provided the props, but not much else. The drawings were produced using high-
quality, pigment-rich pastels in one sitting. The pictures were sold, but I miss them now, and would like them back.

pastel: church in kent 1991

1980s double life-class

I have just found this photograph at the bottom of a pile of papers and old bank statements, of a now-lost A2 size pastel drawing on paper from the distant past, of  two life-models, an easel and a table. Back then I worked in an architect's office on a drawing board by day and frequented life-classes by night. In those days life-classes were cheap and plentiful in London. This class could have been at the Central School or St. Martins in Charing Cross Road. Friday nights after a week of drawing tight drawings of prisons or shopping malls to even tighter deadlines were the best: it was a case of a two hour burst of productive activity, and then down to the pub until closing time, and the last tube home to Ealing.

The Red Bird (detail from a 3 panel oil painting)

See me on the Waltham Forest Art Trail Venue 8

An oil painting from early 1990s: painted in one session

recent work at un-named locations

The author at work

Axonometric Projection of Dorset Road Plans below

Dorset Road N15:2012-2014: 2 Storey Extension. On sale with Rightmove

Art Trail 2014 is coming soon.

The West Street Hunt, Elham Kent, 1977

My Christmas card this year from Mick Talbert: an early photograph from 1977, taken years before the Hunting Ban. Elham is a picturesque village a few miles from Canterbury.

Quantock Snow by Tim and Sue Stanger

The family Christmas card. A striking, near-abstract composition, with three near equal bands of  a warmer white foreground, hot russet red and orange trees, and a perfect winter-blue sky.
 Note the camouflaged white house in the middle distance.

A new studio? Painting one image to another, like Chinese Whispers.

A new year, now what? More landscapes? What?