Textile and mixed media artist, printmaker, bookmaker
Painting and drawing
A lot of my work, in various media, is around Spurn. I have collected everything onto this page.
Alfie, bodyboarding Watercolour on watercolour postcardSpurn Groynes III; watercolour on paper, 60 x 40 cmSpurn Groynes IV; watercolour on paper, 60 x 40 cmSpurn Groynes V; watercolour on paper, 40 x 60 cmThe old lighthouse tower at Spurn; oil on canvas, 50 x 50 x 2 cmMatt and the cat; acrylic on paper. My son sent me a selfie – for me it summed up our sense of the ridiculousHats; watercolour on paper.Summer in Mallorca: watercolour on paperTom … watering… on phone on decking… potting upWatercolour sketches in the gardenPoppies; watercolour on paperMum; pastel on pastel paper. A portrait of my mother, created two days before she died. It had been intended as a birthday present.
Life drawing: I started drawing under the tutelage of Brian Sayers when we both worked at City of Westminster College. We both left and he set up classes in his studio. Great teaching and great fun. I really miss them.
Learning how to sketch, with clay, in the roundAlfie on his birthday: a quick charcoal sketch of my grandsonPlantLandscape with living spaceA couple of A2 drawings from imaginationProdigalExquisite corpseTwo very large drawings. Charcoal, pencil, ink. Axonometric drawing of space rover. Trying to understand structure.Reflections; charcoal and chalk on cartridge (59.4 x 42 cm)