I trained in art at Northumberland College between 1966 and 1969. During the following period, whilst a teacher, I worked at Wallsend Youth Centre doing set design for productions, along with some at the Newcastle Playhouse Workshop. I taught art and pottery evening classes at South Shields Marine and Technical College, as well as screen printing posters for Bailey's Night Clubs (later to become a manager with them). When I moved to Scarborough I ran a sign writing business. Many years later, back in education, I was a tutor on the Humberside 6th form visits to Venice and Paris. Later I ran painting holidays in Tuscany where I rented great acommodation for the participants and took them to great sights such as San Gimignano, Certaldo, Volterra and F;orence. Since then I have painted, on and off, until I moved to Leicestershire where, having a studio - (and more time!) I have worked continually seeking to find my preferred style once again. My membership on the committee of the Leicester Sketch Club has helped me get fully involved with my work.
The first oil painting I ever did - when I was 14, 1961
Early college work in 1967
Early College painting (1966) on a trip to Blyth Docks - commonly referred to, by my tutor, as, 'God's catherine wheel.'!
Another College work - Still life 1969
Figure Study 1969
Devil Water, Northumberland, 1974
Sketch of the Trapeze Artists (1969)
Vendee Coastline with Umbrella - 1984
African Sculpture - from masks in the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1994
Door in Venice, 1992
Torcello Cathedral, Venice, May 1992
Venice Collage, May 2012
More reflections of Venice
Turning Figure (2)
Model Rising
Original water colour sketch for, ' Watching the Breton Cycle Race' , July 1994
,Watching a Breton Cycle Race, 1994
Megan and Daisy ( Watercolour 2006)
Crouching Figure (After a sketch by Giacometti), May 2107
Three Graces (from a life drawing), May 2017
Sentosa Marina, Singapore, 2016
Sentosa Island, Singapore, 2016
Figure Study (Seated), June 2017
Figure Study (Standing), June 2017
Still Life with Blue Jug, September 2019
Still Life with Walnuts, January 2020
Devil Water - including poem
Whitby, After the Storm, September 2017
Bamburgh Castle, March 2020
Dawn over Hadrian's Wall, April 2020
Goole Landscape, April 2020
Portrait of Megan, May 2020
Bottles from the bar ( after Manet's Bar at The Folies Bergere )
14th century African Sculpture to ward off disease, June 2020
Turning figure, June 2020
Trapeze, (after Max Beckmann, 1923), July 2020
199 Steps, Whitby, August 2020
Bayard's Cove, Commissioned work - October 2020
Still Life with black background, Nov 2020
Dancer, December 2020
Beacon Hill, Leicestershire - Nov 2020
Happy in the studio!
