Cycle tour of Iceland – New drawing

My latest panoramic drawing, a 9 panel composite inspired from mine and my son’s 3 month cycle tour of Iceland in 2022. This was a fabulous ride across the centre of Iceland to Askja. My bike, Aaron on his bike, surrounded by silence …… and far far away from all the crazies ……
No shops, no convenience stores, …… carrying 10 days worth of food …. no need to carry water as you can drink straight from the streams and rivers with no problems and no need to purify the water as nature has already done that for you.
Wecome to the desert 2 – Ódáðahraun desert – Vatnajökull National Park Ísland. Graphite and oil on prepared card. 61 x 374 cm 2026. £3800

Do you have adventures you would like to immortalise in an artwork. Then send me a message I do accept commissions.

 

 

Art 3000 New Gallery

Art 3000 ….. A New gallery showing my artwork click …. Here …. to view

 

Hveravallir Geothermal Area, Island. Oil on canvas 76×152 cm 2024. £3400

New oil painting

Storm Oil on canvas 90 x 180 cm £4495
Available to purchase direct from the artist. Please use the contact form to enquire
Just finished. In many ways the view itself is irrelevant…..it is merely the structure upon which any inherent meaning emerges. But the aesthetics of that view, how it is put together and structured is very relevant and of course this has a lot to do with our appreciation of beauty. And hints at a deeper pull, we can ask why one thing has an inherent beauty and balance and another not so much. And in this question lies a particularly interesting truth.
The trick is to point this out in such a way that almost it is hidden ….. it is there without the viewer realising it is there.
It can be summed up in this way …. That which is essential is invisible to the eye

Daughter of Theia – Oil Painting

Daughter of Theia oil on canvas 80×90 cm 2021.

Available from Gallery Tresco.

A favorite subject of mine. Contemplating the origin of the Moon whenever the Moon is visible in the sky. – a remnant of a collison between the Earth and a Mars sized object called Theia approx 4.5 billion years ago, remnants of which still exist deep within the Earth .
In Greek mythology Theia was the goddess of light and of the bright blue sky, of giving sight to mankind. Theia – child of Ouranos and Gaia was also the mother of Helios (thesun) Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the dawn) and was responsible for the lustre of metals like gold.

I love the fact that these stories are continually passed down that astronomers give names to objects like Theia out of respect for these mythological stories. These stories are part of our shared humanity ….. it’s part of why I love astronomy and cosmology so much ….. and especially why I paint such subjects like this

 

PicassMio New paintings and drawings

PicassMio New paintings and drawings

 

https://picassomio.com/artists/chris-hankey

 

‘Welcome – To The Desert – Ódáðahraun desert – Vatnajökull National Park Ísland’. Graphite and oil on card height 71 cm x Width 402 cm. £3800

New painting

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine, Venus – A Temperature Inversion at Sunset Ynysek Syllan Oil on canvas 90×180 cm 2026 £4495

A favorite subject. The Moon is a wonderful subject and contemplating it’s formation and serene movement across the sky. Seeing Earth shine and a bright crescent is a stunning experience and combined with the changing weather makes for a fascinating subject.

 

 

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine, Venus – A Temperature Inversion at Sunset Ynysek Syllan Oil on canvas 90×180 cm April 2026

Latest drawing of the Moon. New drawing

My latest drawing of the Moon centres on my favorite crater Clavious …… I avidly watched Artemis 2 and what a fantastic achievement that was ….. I started this drawing just before Artemis 2 launched viewing the Moon through our Altair 130 EDT APO refractor using a 24 mm explore Scientific eyepiece and x2 barlow. Being a sci fi fan I was mindful of the film 2001 a space odyssey and thatin the film the crater Clavius was the crater used to build a Moon base …… mindful too that the Artemis missions have the ambition to build a Moonbase, though I am sure Clavius will not be where the Moonbase will be. Still it seemed a nice thing to do to contemplate our species return to the Moon.

 

Clavius

 

Latest drawing of the Moon.

 

 

Drawing of the crater Copernicus from direct observation through our Altair 130 EDT apo refractor telescope

A small series of spontaneous abstract Land/seascapes

A small series of spontaneous abstract Land/seascapesdone whilst cycling and walking. They are all 21×21 cm ….. small enough to take in my pannier bags along with a basic set of art materials. The card is 4 mm thick and the surface is prepared in advance.

 

 

Wild Flowers Ynysek Syllan No.1

 

 

Wild Flowers Ynysek Syllan No.2

 

 

Wild Flowers Ynysek Syllan No.9

 

 

Wild Flowers Ynysek Syllan No.12

 

 

Wild Flowers Ynysek Syllan No.13

 

 

Wild Flowers Ynysek Syllan No.14

 

Art conservation/restoration project Feb 2026

 

My latest Art conservation/restoration project with Gallery Tresco Isles of Scilly. I had 9 paintings to work on, mainly to check on the 5 large seascape commission paintings I did in 2010 for the Sea Gardens swimming pool, and 1 large seascape for the spa complex and three other paintings that needed varying ammounts of repairs. I had two weeks based on Tresco for this. The swimming pool and spa complex paintings all needed careful cleaning and the staples holding the canvas to the stretchers all had to be replaced ….. some had literally turned into rusty dust in the humid chlorinated environment of the swimming pool. Due to my choice of using Michael Hardings V2 double retified beeswax and genuine portuguese turpentine based matte varnish the painting had no issues regarding degradation of the paint or colour. However on three of these paintings there was impact damage that needed to be repaired and restored. I am not going into details but I do have some images …..

Typically the build up of salts condencing out of the atmosphere and splashes from the pool leave a coating of salts accross the painting. In the following image you can see the white residue from the splashes coating the painting. This was apparent on all 6 paintings andrequired cleaning and checking.

 

Spa Complex painting

 

 

 

Sea Gardens Swimming Pool paintings

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following is a close up of the impact damage that needed repairing. The damage is right on the inner edge of the stretcher bar.  I decided to remove the painting from the stretcher to repair this.