Paintings

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 Gulbenkian Centre. 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 accommodation for the participants and took them to great sights such as San Gimignano, Certaldo, Volterra and Florence. 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 as well as editing the Newsletter for the club.

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

French Village in the Poitou-Charentes Region, Watercolour, 1989

Breton Cycle Race, Ink & Watercolour, 1989

Still Life in a Room, Watercolour, 1990

The Art Room Door, Watercolour & Collage, 1990

Fishing boat at Shoreham, Watercolour, 1990

Deckchair on Brighton Pier, Watercolour, 1990

Waterlilies, Watercolour, 1990

African Sculpture - from masks in the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1994

Door in Venice, Screen print & Gouache, 1992

Venice Doorway, Watercolour, 1992

Door in Venice, Acrylic, 1992

Torcello Cathedral, Venice, Watercolour, May 1992

Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Watercolour Sketch, 1992

Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, Ink & Gouache, 1992

Venice Collage, May 1992

More reflections of Venice, Oil, 1992

Tuscany near Certaldo, watercolour, 1994

Tuscan Landscape, Watercolour, 1994

Turning Figure (2), Oil on Canvas. 2017

Model Rising, Oil on Canvas, 2017

Original water colour sketch for, ' Watching the Breton Cycle Race' , July 1989

,Watching a Breton Cycle Race, 1994

Megan and Daisy ( Watercolour 2006)

Crouching Figure (After a sketch by Giacometti), May 2017

Three Graces (from a life drawing), May 2017

Sentosa Marina, Acrylic on Canvas 2016

Sentosa Island, Singapore, 2016

Flamborough Head, Oil on Canvas, January 2017

Figure Study (Seated) - Acrylic on canvas, June 2017

Figure Study (Standing) - Acrylic on Canvas, June 2017

Still Life with Blue Jug - Acrylic on Canvas, September 2019

Still Life with Walnuts - Acrylic on Canvas, January 2020

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' ) , Oil, 2017 (Plus the original drawing of the abstraction of the bottles on the bar - done in 1990)