Taken from my book of High Wolds paintings, comments and poetry. Over 400 pages, containing views of the Yorkshire Wolds. Each painting is a...

  Click the image above to be taken into a virtual gallery, where you will see a collection of quickly sketched paintings,. Sketched with a ...

14x10 oil on canvas - slightly reworked version posted early July Two large whites dance in dappled light watching the guardian disappear. ...

  Popped down to the secret garden at the Minster this morning to paint a picture, providing the garden was open. It was open. I went in and...

One of over 20 poems written to accompany prose and artwork in my High Wolds book. Art, as a medium is all encompassing. For me as an artist...

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Popped down to the secret Garden this afternoon, saw this view of pots with various flowers behind and thought it would make a good sketch. ...

My latest book of how to paint planner featuring the Yorkshire High Wolds. It completes my opus of three books. It is a superbly designed an...

July 27th 2026. I am keeping to my schedule and popping up to Thixendale where I am recording a year in the valley. Here is the latest iPad...

Here is a drawing with a heavy hand. No subtle pressure or correction.  I want you to do a quick sketch of a banana, which became two banana...

  Popped over to Thixendale to see if the wheat had been harvested. Crops here are usually a little later than the surrounding flat lands. T...

Spent an enjoyable time at Hutton Cranswick this afternoon giving an acrylic demonstration painting flowers, using only the three primary co...

 Quick sketch of a corner at Beverley Minster. A5 sketchbook, double page spread. St.John street on the right hand side, distant Minster Ave...

Click image and zoom in for detail  Here is an update on my Thixendale iPad painting. Today, 14th July, I went over to Thixendale to continu...

Can you see the guardian? Two white butterflies dance in the dappled light, wary of cruising dragon flies. Woodland sprites play as the guar...

 

 Quick watercolour sketch made on a hot day, I was passing on my bicycle on my way home and saw this corner view with Highgate in the backgr...

Originally posted in 2020 The finished picture. approx outline, subject to refinement. Blocking in the values. 25th June 2020. Above Huggate...

Black Mill with St. Mary’s  Another original half imperial watercolour from my series in 2002. At the time both poplars could be seen. Sadly...

  Stonethwaite. I was still, at this time, producing half imperial watercolour paintings. I always worked en plein air  to try  to capture t...

  Click image to see it larger Many years ago, at a time when David Hockney and I met we talked of plein air watercolours. I, like David, wa...

20 minute very loose watercolour sketch of part of the coastal path at Bempton. Below another view from near the small pond on the path to t...

  EARLY STAGE - IT IS FAR FROM FINISHED I love gardening. In my modest garden I have what I grandly call my ‘white border’. It has many whit...