Ice creams in October, Norwich market.

Some of my paintings from 2013.

My blog rather lapsed into disuse last year so I thought I'd do a bit of catching up over the next few days.   I decided I'd enter the SAA competition the other night and I was updating my web pages on that site and then entering the new paintings into the competition and it occurred to me that it would be just a small step to also past the content plus a bit more here too!  So here we go in no particular order.....

I started this one on location in Bath in the summer of 2012. I had a few hours left before I was due to get my train home.  This is how it looked at the end of the first session painted on location.  

When I got home I chopped the bottom of the board and finished the rest of it from a couple of photo's I'd taken,  I finally finished it in the early part of 2013.

 

I'll try and catch up with a few more pic's over the next few day's.

Leigh Art trial Auction

Wanstead Tree's, Oil on canvas, 30cm x 24cm, 2011.

I'm posting this image today of my painting "Wanstead trees"  which will be auctioned at 7.30pm on Friday 18th November at the Leigh Community Centre to raise money for the Leigh Art Trail.  I joined the trail three years ago and each year artists donate a piece of work to the auction which helps to boost funds to get the trail to get going the next year.   It's  painted from a photo I took a few years ago and a couple of weeks ago I painted a smaller sketchier version as a demonstration piece in one of my classes. 

Click on the link to view the catalogue of the auction.

http://www.wearestudio3.co.uk/leigh-art-trail-auction-catalogue.html