Scent of a woman

A larger format which I prefer working in allows me the opportunity to use broader brushes and silicone blades as well as a variety of larger palette knives. When painting flowers I tend to use a permanent rose ground colour. I particularly love how this bright pink red is muted when covered, but still creates…

A very specific commission…

This was a very specific commission based on fabric samples and a little water colour of a jug of flowers. The client wanted me to paint a medium sized canvas in acrylic paint of the little card, but to change some of the colours of the flowers. Although not my usual style of interpreting flowers,…

4 vases of flowers

I had a very specific brief from my client. It needed to be soft delicate shades of blue and grey’s. The vases needed to be glass, or subdued ceramics. Subject matter was to be flowers. Two had to be Magnolias, one the traditional cream colour, and the other was to have a soft pink as…

End of summer

Painted in thick painterly strokes using brushes, palette knives and silicon blades and shapers.

My friend the Octopus

Octopus and friend are not usually synonymous words in my dictionary – I am after all rather phobic of things with 8 legs and that would include sea creatures like an octopus! The list of 8 legged things on earth and sea is a comprehensive one – I guess it is not surprising that one…

Steel Magnolias

Slowly getting in to the swing of things for 2022. Working in the studio remains a challenge, because of the heat and the awful humidity. I need to investigate installing an AC for December through to February…. The rest of the year just isn’t necessary because the studio itself is nestled in the trees in…