New painting – ‘Bluebells’

Bluebells. oil on canvas 76x91.5 cm 2016 £1600

Bluebells. oil on canvas 76×91.5 cm 2016 £1600

A little late finishing this painting as it was started way back in the spring. The sky was fascinating, constantly shifting vertical shafts of light would fall, highlighting the sea, windy and hazy and bright all at the same time. Just the sort of weather I like

Conjunction Oil on canvas 110×95 cm 2012 – 2016

Conjunction Oil on canvas. 110 x95 cm £1800

Conjunction Oil on canvas. 110 x95 cm £1800

Conjunction. Oil on canvas 95×110 cm. £1800. I observed the conjunction of Jupiter Venus and Mercury from Chapel Carn Brea in 2012. Jupiter Venus and Mercury appear as tiny dots in the sky, as accurately as I could place them, although Mercury is quite a challenge to spot

Holed Stone and Mist Kenidjack

Another painting finished today. As always exploring the landscape and weather. This one is part of a series I am working on about stone circles and standing stones. This is the first one finished.

Holed Stone and Mist Kenidjack. Oil on canvas. 60×60 cm £1100

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80x80 cm £1100

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80×80 cm £1100

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Mist above Portheras Cove

We have been having such a lot of mist this summer and I know there are many people out there who do not like it. For me cycling through this weather is wonderful especially first thing just after dawn. It’s like the world gives you another way of appreciating the landscape….different lighting and hidden views suddenly revealed….It’s kind of mysterious and enigmatic. Well here is a new painting among many underway about this wonderful changeable sublime weather we have here in Cornwall.

Mist above Portheras Cove. Oil on canvas 80×80 cm. £1500

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80x80 cm £1500

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80×80 cm £1500

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Storm Hell Bay Bryher

New painting. This came about through an artist in residence on Tresco Isles of Scilly. Each year I have the possibility to take part in Gallery Tresco’s artist in residence program. It usually only lasts for one week, and mostly the work I do during the residency continues to form a body of work that is exhibited at Gallery Tresco the following year.

Although the residency is located on Tresco usually I will have one or two visits to Bryher which is an outrageous place to experience the winter storms and Hell Bay is aptly named. The storms here are frightening.

Hell Bay Bryher. Oil on canvas. 91 x 91 cm. 2016. £1500

Hell Bay Bryher. Oil on canvas. 91 x 91 cm. 2016. £1500

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Venus and Wild Flowers

Here is a new painting. It has been in progress for about 6 months and is a memory from several years back of many evenings watching Venus set in the west from where I built my first observatory.

 

Venus and Wild Flowers. Oil on canvas. 80 x 81 cm. 2016 £1200

Venus and Wild Flowers. Oil on canvas. 80 x 81 cm. 2016 £1200

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Winter Storm

Here is another new painting, again one that I have been coming back to over the last two years or so. We always have terrifically  exciting storms at the far end of Cornwall and the waves crashing against the cliffs can be terrifying at times…..I still cannot resist exploring these winter storms with sketchbooks and working these drawings and sketches into large scale artworks.

This painting is also large 96 cm x 229 cm £3800

Oil on canvas 96x229 cm

Oil on canvas 96×229 cm

Storm Bryher

This is a painting I keep coming back to time and again……inspred from experiences of the winter storms on the Isles of Scilly during several artist in residencies that I took part in through Gallery Tresco on the Isles of Scilly. I first began work on this painting in 2009, it has gone through many stages and on occasion in various exhibitions, but somehow I have always managed to keep it. It is my most favorite painting, and every now and then I will take it of the wall and work a little bit more on it. Like nature it is a work in progress evolving and as ever it remains unfinished.

A large painting measuring 96.5 cm x 229 cm. £3800

Oil on canvas 96.5 x 229 cm 2016

Oil on canvas 96.5 x 229 cm 2016

Sunset – Winter Storm

Welcome to my blog. I am starting this with one of my recent sales. This painting sold to a couple from Wales. The painting came about from my experiences of cycling and walking during this years winter storms along the coast between St Just and Land’s End. If I had to pick a particular place……as I was asked by the couple who bought the painting, then as I said to them it would be Porth Nanven beach which is very close to where I live and the rocks just visible in the foam of the crashing waves are where my children and I can often be found swimming in the summer…….

Sunset Winter Storm

Oil on canvas 76×152 cm £2200 SOLD