Hi everybody just got home from art class and had the most devastating news you could imagine.. my very good friend's wife has just taken her own life, not for the normal selfish reasons of suicide, she was very ill with a life threatening health problem, she was a lovely person.   To say the least I am absolutely gutted, and it may take a while for me to get back on track with the website, please bear with me.

Hi folks you will see some changes on the home page, all the content is still there just in different places, still in the developement stages so more changes to come.

I spoke to Trevor yesterday and he has got his oils out again, and also I am hoping he will be coming back to the class soon.

Yet another view of Willow tree fen, this really isn't about Willow tree fen, at the moment it is more about my return to painting and the style of painting I am trying to produce, which is a loose kind of painting, as I said before it is very difficult to produce visually stimulating paintings in a loose style, far easier to produce realistic pic's. I want to get even looser than this but still retain a content that means something, as opposed to random daubs that mean nothing, not even to the artist!! Oh yes it means something to the pretentious art critics who can talk for hours about dribbles of paint...haha morons!!

Here is my version of Van Gogh's "wheatfield with cypresses" it is painted on a honsell linen canvas 16"x12", if i could afford it I would paint every picture on these canvases, they are a delight to work on.

This is an oil sketch 10x8 done quickly, and looser than my normal type of painting, this approach gives me far more satisfaction than the realistic approach, because it is (for me) much harder to achieve a reasonable looking picture. I hope I have got somewhere near how I want to paint all the time.

The picture is not taken from a photograph it is taken from memory of the spot near where the first painting was done.

Have cropped and reframed this pic, was 20x16 is now 11x14, slight improvement but probably still destined for the dust bin.

What you fink?

Good morning to all the avid fans of this site. was getting ready to go to the class tomorrow for the first time for a long time(as a class member), and then realised that it is a bank holiday, so will have to wait until next monday.

There will be some major changes to the layout and content of the site as I get back into things, but don't worry nothing will be lost(I hope) just put into different places and hopefully will be a bit more professional looking, and easier to find what you are looking for.

For past visitors and users of this website you will notice that I have removed the DIARY page, well that was because of a fault with the page design, but you can still see the DIARY  just goto  SITE HISTORY  in the menu.

Yes!!... the blog has been created, fingers crossed everything goes OK.

Here goes again with my latest painting 20x16 oils: This is a view of the now defunct railway bridge at Willow tree fen wildlife sanctuary two miles from pode hole on the Baston road, the picture was painted from a photograph taken by me. This area is going to be a large wetland area all built by volunteers. More info on this when I have spoken to some of the team involved. 

Please bear with me as I am having to learn new web design techniques