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.
Horses on Sutton Heath
I might add a dog running beside the horses.
Sunflowers
My copy of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’, The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, acrylic on stretch canvas 61cm x 91.5cm
Orford, Suffolk
Orford sunset. Painted from photograph with a few adjustments.
Cafe Table
I’m sure the original ‘Cafe Table’ by Picasso has only one bottle, so mine is likely to be a copy of a copy not done by Picasso! This work is acrylic on canvas board, 61cm x 82cm
The Nativity and The Resurrection (unfinished)
These are two individual paintings, acrylic on stretch canvas, each 49.5cm x 100cm, always displayed together.
St Laurence’s Church, Blackmore
Acrylic on stretch canvas, 41.5cm x 59cm
St Mary & All Saints Church, Lambourne
Acrylic on canvas board, 41cm x 31cm
St Mary’s Church, Whittlesey
Acrylic on canvas, 28cm x 36cm
Self portrait
Self portrait, acrylic on canvas board, 28cm x 36cm
Paul
Acrylic on box canvas, 28cm x 36cm
Pete
Pete, acrylic on stretch canvas, 41.5cm x 59cm
Kim
Kim. acrylic on stretch canvas, 41.5cm x 59cm