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06 Dec The Sins Of The Father….

This work heralds a change of direction and a departure in theme and subject matter from previous canvases. Although I find it perplexingly difficult to explain my choices and the reasons behind the decisions I made. I’ve long admired the work of Laurence Alma-Tadema (1836 -1912)....

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18 Jul Strange Bedfellows

OK, here’s the story behind how this painting came into being. I’d bought a 152.4 cms by 50.8 cms (or 60 inches by 20 inches in old money) linen canvas in an art-store sale. I’d had it for ages but didn’t know what I was going...

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26 Nov Life is Full of Surprises

There were no iPads, laptops or smartphones when I was a kid. Not even colour TV. At the age of 8 my imagination was ignited by comics. I spent my ‘Saturday Sixpence’ on The Dandy, Beano, Topper, Beezer or Eagle. Most were printed and published...

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21 Sep After Coffee She Left Me

I was eating a raisin cookie one morning and I thought, I know, maybe I should paint this. So, I set about mocking up a still-life arrangement using raisin cookies and changing things, adding stuff and moving things around, as you do. I bought the dark chocolate...

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04 Jul True Love is Hard to Find

The Kimberley Desert, Western Australia, circa 1897. This was an inhospitable, arid, unforgiving land where the heat and the flies were constant, unwanted companions. Out there in the outback the likelihood of meeting a young, nubile, lone female was rare if not unheard of! For the...

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03 Apr There Are No Easy Answers

So, what’s this all about? I, honestly, have absolutely no idea. I do plan my work extensively before putting paint to canvas. In this instance I chose the individual images because I liked them. Why? I have no idea. The image in the top right was originally...

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21 Feb Forbidden Fruit

I usually have little idea of how a painting is going to evolve before I start. In this instance I had both the yellow and blue tin-toy robots and the female is inspired by 1940’s American pin-up art (which I've always had a soft-spot for)....

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