Back to Australia

Will be away for 3 months

Sadly my first London Exhibition, 'Variations' has finished

I would sincerely like to thank all those who helped and gave there support before during and after the exhibition, it certainly would not have been such a great success without them.

The final tally was 38 pieces sold and 8 commissions which, as you can imagine I'm over the moon about.

A few abstracts you may not have seen ... Great fun to do.

Galactic Meadow - Acrylic on canvas - 1.5m x 1.2m

RGB - Acrylic on canvas - 1.5m x .8m

Big Bang - Acrylic on canvas - 1m x 1m

Opening Night - 19 Sold!

Well the opening night went very well, had a great turnout and sold 19 pieces - very happy with that.

I'm having another viewing tomorrow night so hopefully we can keep the ball rolling.

Preparation - 1 day to go

Finishes touches

Packing the van

Opening night

Variations - Exhibition next week on 21st August

1 week to go .... a few more paintings drawings and photo's that will be on show. 

Battersea Power Station - 1.5m x 1m - Oil on canvas

RGB - Acrylic on canvas

Bankside sign at low tide - Photograph

Millenium in blue - Acrylic on canvas 

Approaching Storm - Oil on Canvas - 1m x 1m

Male study - Oil on canvas - 1m x 1m

 The following works are sketches from life, these are done over a cup of coffee (or two).

These were done around Borough Market at London Bridge, the medium is ink and acrylic wash on canvas. 

Exhibition Pieces

Latest pieces for my exhibition in August, as usual keep swapping between mediums and updating styles.

I'm producing a wide variety of work from 20 or so 30x30cm sketches and studies on canvas to 2 meter paintings and photographs.

Light Box - 1mx1m - oil on canvas

Streets of Rohdes in Greece - 1m x 70cm - oil on canvas

Nude study - 1m x 1m - oil on canvas

The audition - 40 x 40cm - oil on canvas

Clapham Common Tube study - 30 x 30cm - ink on canvas

Tower Bridge Commission - 120cm x 100cm - Acrylic on canvas

St Pauls - 4 seperate canvases, overall size 1m x 1m - Acrylic on canvas

Box Office - Study for larger painting 30 x30cm - acrylic on canvas

London Street - Study for larger painting 30 x30cm - acrylic on canvas

A few more paintings for my August Exhibition, to much to do and not enough time ... really enjoying myself though.

I'm learning all the time and after visiting the Lucian Freud http://www.npg.org.uk/freudsite exhibition at the London National Portrait Gallery, I realise  how much I can still improve - great reality check, fantastic work the guy was brilliant.

Detail St Paul's - Acrylic on canvas

Detail from Boy Monk - oil on canvas

St Paul's - Acrylic on canvas

Boy Monk - oil on canvas

Detail of Tuscany - oil on canvas

Big Ben - acrylic on canvas

Portraits and more ...

It's time to submit for the major portrait prizes around London. Had a lot of fun doing the Les and Les, father and son owners of Furnas fish at Borough Market. This has been entered into the BP Portrait Prize at the National Gallery. They accept about 70 fro hanging and had 2600 odd entries last year - 'You'll never know unless you give it a go'.

Sadu (Indian Holy Man) I have done before in watercolor, this time he has been rendered in oil - the reference for this was taken from a photo I shot whilst visiting Varanasi in India.

Commission - Oil on canvas

Sadu - Oil on canvas

Commission - oil on canvas

Watercolor exhibition .....

A few watercolors completed or up-dated for submission into the 'Royal Society of Painters in Watercolor'  annual exhibition. Very hard (as are all of the London exhibitions ) to get selected, so fingers crossed. Paintings as always taken from either life or from photos I have taken.

London, low tide - Line and wash

Watercolor - Sadu - Indian Holy man - Taken from a photo shot whilst in Varannassi, India  

Watercolor - St Ives, Cornwall - UK

Watercolor - Rhodes, Greece