skygazing

Most of my paintings in some way relate to the sky, at different times of day, different weather and illusive effects of light and mood so I rarely take photographs, preferring to paint from memory. The other evening though the sky was a particularly intense blue behind the dark silhouettes of trees. A slow shutter and camera movement resulted in a few photos showing what inspired my most recent paintings - photos based on my paintings rather than the other way round...

My painting finds a new home...

Although I am always pleased when someone buys one of my paintings from a gallery (in this case the Columbia Road gallery in Hackney) I also often feel sad because then I don't know who has bought it or where it's new home is. So it was a lovely surprise to be flicking through the Style Pages of the Times Magazine today to see an article 'Tower of London' showing my painting At the end of the day II !  It now lives in the beautiful apartment of Georg Oehler, an interior and furniture designer, who resides at the top of the Strata building in London. Thank you Georg!

New paintings at the Columbia Road Gallery

 night echoes VI




















After an intense few weeks of painting we drove down to London on Sunday to deliver a selection of new and recent paintings to the Columbia Road Gallery in Hackney. It opens on Sundays when the famous Columbia Road flower market and shops are all open and is always extremely busy. Great news that the gallery's owner, Hannah Ludnow, will also be showing my work at the Hampstead Affordable Art Fair in June. The new paintings explore the changing colour, tones and light along the horizon and how it is affected by time of day, weather and state of mind.

still morning

winter morning I

late evening

New website for Electric Picture House Artists

My studio is at the Electric Picture House Artists Co-operative in Congleton, Cheshire and we have just launched our new website at www.electricpicturehouse.com. It was created by Ian Turnock at Studio Latitude who also designed and built my own artists website. We'll be adding to it as more exhibitions and events are organised for 2014.

Battersea Affordable Art Fair

Only a couple of weeks until The Battersea Affordable Art Fair where I will be showing work with the Columbia Road Gallery. Here's a detail of one of my new paintings 'Cloud & Sky' that will on display.
The fair runs from 24 - 27 October.

New York City Affordable Art Fair

This recently completed painting is one of a selection of my work that will soon be making it's way across the Atlantic to New York. Pippa Gruber of ArtDog London is showing my work at the New York City Affordable Art Fair which takes place from 3 - 6 October 2013.

night echoes III

Suffragette City: redressing the balance?

I'll be showing some new paintings in this group exhibition by the women artists at the Electric Picture House Artist's Co-operative, along side Di Harding, Petra Lea, Liz Mylonakis and Sharon Quinn. It is a hundred years since the Suffragettes marched in London so we are doing our bit to redress the balance of the under representation of women in galleries and museums.
We have let a man design our poster though! Thanks to Ian Turnock at Studio Latitude.