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'High White Fen' A Landscape painting of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands

‘High White Fen’ A Landscape painting of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands

‘High White Fen’ 80 x 40 on Cradled Board (Detail ‘High White Fen’) Detail ‘ High White Fen’ If someone told you that a painting of a landscape was a close recording of a particular place or location, you would accept their version of events. If they told you it was non representational, but an evocation of feelings, memories and ideas you might accept their argument. If they told you it was…

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A landscape painting of Devil's Dyke. Anglo Saxon Earthwork in Cambridgeshire.

A landscape painting of Devil’s Dyke. Anglo Saxon Earthwork in Cambridgeshire.

‘Devil’s Dyke’ Acrylic on Canvas 100 x 130 x 4 cm Running along the top of Devil’s Dyke is a narrow causeway. At this time of year it is very overgrown and a rich assortment of wild flowers are in full bloom, encroaching the path on either side. As you make your way along the ridge there is a constant accompaniment of butterflies, insects and wildlife. Devil’s Dyke is one of the best surviving…

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A Fenland Landscape in Cambridgeshire. 'Westmoor' From Pymoor towards Little Downham.

A Fenland Landscape in Cambridgeshire. ‘Westmoor’ From Pymoor towards Little Downham.

‘Westmoor’ 100 x 150 x 4cm ‘Westmoor’ (Detail) The Fens around Ely come to life with colour at this time of year. The intense yellow of the rapeseed provides a complementary contrast to the cool blues and soft greys of the Summer Cambridgeshire skies. This landscape painting in acrylic follows the traditional conventions of representation and uses the framing device of the ‘window on the…

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Beyond The Image Gallery: 'Fenland' Exhibition

Beyond The Image Gallery: ‘Fenland’ Exhibition

Just finished setting up my ‘Fenland’ black and white print series at the ‘Beyond the Image’ photographers gallery in Thornham Magna, Suffolk. The exhibition opens on July 2nd and runs until July 25th.

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A Victorian Shop Front in the Suffolk town of Bungay

A Victorian Shop Front in the Suffolk town of Bungay

The architectural delights of Suffolk and Norfolk. This photograph was taken in the centre of the small town of Bungay. I can’t walk past these fantastic buildings without recording them; the shape and dimensions of the impossibly narrow window and the proximity of the adjoining doorways is just wonderful.

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Fields, Rivers and Dreams. Flying high above the landscape.

100 x 130 cm on Canvas Detail Detail Detail This is a painting in acrylic and mixed media. It is an imaginative interpretation of the Cambridgeshire Fenland. A patchwork quilt of field, waterways and dykes stretches as far as the eye can see.

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Fenland Landscape inBitumen, Cold Wax, Plaster, Sand, Enamel, Pumice & Emulsion.

Fenland Landscape inBitumen, Cold Wax, Plaster, Sand, Enamel, Pumice & Emulsion.

In painting, unconventional materials generate unexpected effects and unpredictable events. Relinquishing the control of technique offered by conventional artists paints and equipment opens up new possibilities and ways of seeing. This is a 100 x 100 cm mixed media painting on canvas.

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IEA Exhibition

The Institute of East Anglian Artists Open Exhibition 2021

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Flesh is water. Stones are like bones.

Flesh is water. Stones are like bones.

‘Stone & Water’ Oil and Cold Wax on 80 x 80 cm canvas ‘Stone & Water’ Oil and Cold Wax on 80 x 80 cm canvas (detail) This is a cold wax mixed media painting on a high quality canvas frame. It is based on my experience of the Fenland landscape. It is not a visual record of a specific place, or a celebration of a well known structure or familiar location. I am interested in surfaces and textures…

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The trees are coming into leaf......Like something almost being said

The trees are coming into leaf……Like something almost being said

‘A Kind of Grief’ Oil and Cold Wax on 80 x 80 cm canvas ‘A Kind of Grief’ Oil and Cold Wax on 80 x 80 cm canvas (Detail) This is a cold wax mixed media painting on a high quality canvas frame. It is based on my recent artist residency in the New Forest in Hampshire. I spent a number of days walking amongst the trees and gathering information for a series of paintings through drawing and…

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Reflections in The New Forest

Reflections in The New Forest

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas 80 x 80 cm Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas 80 x 80 cm (detail) The painting above is currently on show at the Art in East Anglia Gallery in Bury St Edmunds alongside three other works from my New Forest residency. This is a cold wax mixed media painting on a high quality canvas frame. It is based on my recent artist residency in the New Forest in Hampshire. I spent a number…

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Camper Van owner temporarily 'channels' the spirit of Christo & Jean Claude in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands

Camper Van owner temporarily ‘channels’ the spirit of Christo & Jean Claude in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands

Christo and Jean Claude never explained, interpreted or gave meanings to their work; they didn’t need to. We will always obligingly do that for them. Writers and art critics have theorised about their ideas, conjuring a complex set of social, political, philosophical and psychological reasons why we should be interested in the art they produced. If I list many of the customary arguments here, you…

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A brick wall is not a creative impasse, it is an opportunity to see and discover.

A brick wall is not a creative impasse, it is an opportunity to see and discover.

Oil and cold wax medium on cradled board 35 x 20 cm I love the seemingly effortless quality in the paintings by Paul Klee. When he talked about the nature of abstraction and creativity he used the tree as an analogy. This isn’t an exact quotation but a personal translation of his thought and it has always worked for me. He said that a tree exists in two worlds, below and above ground. Expecting…

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Futurism and Dance is the way Forward

Futurism and Dance is the way Forward

Acrylic on Canvas 150 x 100 cm Detail This is a large acrylic work exploring the possibility of creating the illusion of movement in painting. I am always in two minds about using acrylic and I often find myself switching to oil paints after a period of time. (Please note, you can make the change if the oil paint layer is applied after the acrylic, not the other way around). To be accurate, you…

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These two houses immediately reminded me of a photograph taken by Diane Arbus.

These two houses immediately reminded me of a photograph taken by Diane Arbus.

Two Houses on Ten Mile Bank Fenlands Two houses, two reflections, one River. Ten Mile Bank, Cambridgeshire Fenlands. Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967  Diane Arbus Don’t worry, I’m not claiming to have produced a masterpiece but I did see a connection between the two. The power of Diane Arbus’s photograph rests on our understanding of individuality and identity. The twins were seven…

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Sliding across the Canvas. Abstraction and Gestural Painting with Acrylic Mediums

Sliding across the Canvas. Abstraction and Gestural Painting with Acrylic Mediums

100 x 150 cm Acrylic on Canvas 100 x 150 cm Acrylic on Canvas (detail) A day in the life of a large-scale abstract painting. This is the third day on this particular piece and I’m really enjoying the process of making marks. I’m trying to achieve a sense of energy, dynamism, and optimism. Sweeping arcs of translucent color seem to be the way forward using a broad range of arm and hand movements…