After not picking up a brush since my Art A Level days, retirement has given me the opportunity to resurrect my love of painting. I get a huge sense of enjoyment from creating in the post-impressionism style using broad strokes and raw colours. Most of my works are portraits but I also enjoy painting churches and I have been known to clear my basement, cover the whole floor with decorator’s plastic sheets, put down a canvas and get to work on a Jackson Pollock. More recently I’ve started experimenting with the Cubist style and, I must admit, Alberto Giacometti fascinates me.
Hayley’s Bigger Splash
Hayley’s Bigger Splash at Dina’s Paradise, Corfu, is painted in the style of David Hockney, acrylic on canvas, 43cm x 60cm
Practice: The Girl with a Pearl Earring 2024
Acrylic on paper, 30cm x 42cm
The Girl With A Pearl Earring 2024
Acrylic on canvas. 19in x 15in (framed)
The Weeping Woman
My attempt at Picasso’s ‘The Weeping Woman’. Started at an Art & Wine evening hosted by Simona Durrant Art, finished in the studio. Acrylic on stretched canvas, 12 x 16 ins (16.5 x 20.5 ins framed)
Two Blues A
Acrylic on box canvas, 100cm x 120cm. Kind permission to copy the original artwork given by Christian Hook, the original artist.
The Ancient House
The Ancient House where I now live on left and the Old Post Office Burgh on right, 1908. Painted from a sepia photograph post card, posted back to the Post Office by a soldier in Australia during WW1. The people look a little wooden but that’s how they appear in the photograph. I’ve kept the people in their original quite ‘stiff’ poses, which was probably typical of the period.
Plombiere les bains et l’eau
Winner of the “Concours des Peintres dans la rue” 2023
Ra
This picture and a previous post of Khonsu (Egyptian moon god) won first prize at the Epinal Acadamie exhibition.
No Words
This was requested by my daughter for her home, a copy of Terry Bradley’s No Words. Monochrome acrylic on stretch canvas. 41.5cm x 59cm
Village
This is my copy of John Myatt’s village in the style of Pablo Picasso. The work is acrylic on canvas board 61cm x 82cm
