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.
Snowdon
In the distance, Llwedd, Snowdon, Crib Goch, Moel Siabod and Tryfan.
eType
Possibly the most beautiful car ever made – Enzo Ferrari.
Sutton Heath
December sunset.
The Singing Butler – copy
A neighbour suggested I copied this, she loves the original by Jack Vettriano. I liked Vettriano’s paintings from when I first saw them in the ’90s but I feel he gets a bad deal, despite prints of his paintings selling in their thousands world-wide, he has a bad reputation in the ‘art world’ and none of his paintings are hung in major public galleries. I like the illustrative quality of his work and the way he constructs strong images from photographic reference. It made sense when I read that he has likened his work to Norman Rockwell who was a great illustrator.
Inspiration 37,2 le matin
TECHNIQUE: GOUACHE
FORMAT: 0, 45/ 0, 39M
SUPPORT: PAPIER
ANNEE: 2017
Summer
Copy of Summer by Gunnar Berndtson.
The Vatican Garden
Painting from photograph.
The Rally
Copy in acrylic of a John Lavery water colour The Rally.
Tennis
Copy of John Lavery’s The Tennis Party.
Arc de Triomphe
The Tricolour flying for Brezhnev’s visit to France 1978.
Lamborghini Miura
Living the dream.
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
View from our window.
Amsterdam
The Vier Heemskinderen bridge.