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)....
In the 1950’s Hans and Lotte Hass hosted a BBC series, filmed underwater in The Red Sea and The Great Barrier Reef. Back then it was in black and white, colour hadn’t arrived. As a child I was riveted, fascinated, spellbound! And their voice-over commentary was...
This is Oskar. Or Oskie as he's affectionately known. He was around 28 and a half (if you believe the human calculation of canine ageing) when he was painted. We found him in a locked suitcase in a lost-property office. How he got in there and...
I had an old black and white, aerial, ordinance-survey print. Circa 1950s Britain from above. I'd kept it and held on to it for years. Always liked it and thought one day I'll use this for something. And that 'something' turned out to be the background...
I’m not a landscape painter but I do like landscape paintings. I remember my first visit to Mt. Tamborine in the Gold Coast hinterland. The dense, majestic rainforest is in stark contrast to the rolling-green fields of the UK landscape I had grown up with. Just...
I like the oddball. Comic strips from the 1950’s, saucy-seaside postcards, American pin-up art. So this is an amalgam of images, memories from childhood, places in the world I’ve visited, stuff I've simply liked and enjoyed along the way. However, the real inspiration for this was Hannah,...
This was specifically executed for a ‘Small Scale’ art competition. No canvas with a width or depth, greater than 61 cms or 24 inches in old money! I suppose you'd call it a 'still life' and, if so, it's the second one I've painted and is...
This canvas took the longest to finish. I often find the resource and reference for my paintings in and around the home and garden. In this instance the landscaping pebbles down the right side were found in front of the laundry door exit....
Monument Valley, Utah and corny, old, American Westerns in Technicolour . My first landscape since art student days. Are those rocks orange or what?...
Caloundra, a resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, provided the waves and rocks....