Online portfolio / print catalogue

I took advantage of a special offer from Bonusprint to put together a portfolio volume of "Recent Work". It also has a complete print catalogue at the back, including greetings cards. The print version (which hasn't arrived yet) came with a free online book, which you can look at here.

Wiltshire Blue

Coming down off the ridgeway in Wiltshire in June, this caught my eye - I don't know what the crop was, but it was decidedly bluer than anything else growing in the fields. The receding stripes echoed the clouds in the upper part of the sky agreeably and I knew it would make a good painting.

This is rather a quick painting, so there could well be a better one to be made.

Anyway, I took a photograph back in June and used my ancient iMac to display it today, thus circumventing the printer (which needs ink).

Blue Stripey Field
Oil on linen canvas, 30 x 30 cm

From One Hill Fort to Another

This was a plein air painting made back in July, just before the schools broke up and summer holiday madness commenced.

Local retail of greetings cards

 

Our village shop, Swan Street Stores, has agreed to take some of my posh greetings cards on a sale or return basis. The cards are sitting on the counter at the till, hopefully looking "different", and tempting, priced at £3 each. I tried to incude several local scenes in the selection that I took in, but there's quite a range there - from the colourful "Freedom" imaginary dancer to Perranuthnoe's brown and blue winter tide.

Porthtowan

This painting - a commission - was a fabulous challenge: a two-metre-long palette-knife-oil painting of the view from a cottage on East Cliff, Porthtowan, Cornwall. Slightly complicated by the necessity of "removing" the newer buildings further down the slope that obscured the view of the beach.

Porthtowan (WIP) before the surfers hit the beach...

I have a few things left to do to this, including adding a few tiny figures on the beach.

Oil on really big canvas, 80 x 200 cm
WIP, commission

Four Candles

Three ACEOs. Four candles (actually, there were five; the plain one just got painted four times) and four forks. Oh, and two Ronnies...