About

After retiring from a career in the City in 2000 I have been painting more or less continuously. I have been fortunate in finding some first rate tutors particularly Hugo Greenville, who is one of our leading colourists and a truly inspirational teacher.

I have also completed a years study with Christopher Baker in his School of Landscape and a ten week life drawing course at the Royal Academy. Also painted regularly with Hugh Webster at his shed on the edge of the River Deben at Felixstowe Ferry.

I love painting in new locations and have travelled into the Arctic Circle and Costa Rica with Art Safari and made several trips to The Algarve and Andalusia .I am a keen skier and love painting in the Alps.

Many Suffolk Open Studio Exhibitions in my studio including one show with all proceeds donated to Ipswich Hospital Radiotherapy Unit.( Raised over £4500) and shows with Cobbold and Judd at Hintlesham Hall.

Also with the well respected Chappel Galleries .

In January I exhibited at Bankside Gallery on the South Bank with Hugo Grenville and his Companions In Colour.

I have been on the Jackson’s Painting competition Long List three times.

I am predominately a landscape painter but also love painting flowers in their natural settings and gardens. I have painted commissions of local Mill Houses and Tudor Hall Houses. I paint mainly in oils but enjoy the challenge of water colour and charcoal.  I am more excited by capturing how it feels than how it looks.

Norfolk

Following on from “ Where to next?” my last show in Shelley House Studios, we left our beloved home of 42 years and were extremely fortunate to be offered temporary accommodation on a Norfolk Estate, which had some large meres and woods nestling amongst the vast acreages of farmland. The largest of the meres had a boathouse which I was allowed to use as a studio. I spent 4 blissful months painting there and I have included a selection of drawings and paintings in The Gallery.

Bury St Edmunds

In August 2023 we moved into our new home in Bury St Edmunds and I have enjoyed painting the market scenes which are a completely new genre for me, with their vibrancy, bright colours and bustling crowds. A different world from the serenity and solitude of the lakes (see gallery).

A dear friend was about to have a major operation for a brain tumour removal. She was a keen scuba diver, and as she was told by the surgeon that she must not dive again, she asked me to paint something that would remind her of those wonderful times beneath the waves.

Being a keen diver myself in years gone by I relished the challenge of re creating something of the joy of being twenty metres down looking up at the breaking waves above, and looking down into a bottomless dark blue cavern, through myriads of brilliantly coloured reef fish, to the mysterious and sometimes menacing deep.

As to composition I put the diver (my friend), on the golden section with the warm yellow ocres of the reef in the foreground making the the cavern of deep receding blues. I used many blue glazes over the reef to harmonise with the blues. Most importantly were the breaking waves far above which anyone who has scuba dived will know that one looks up in wonder and down sometimes with trepidation!