A rainbow Cow painting triptych

Today at the studio I hope to finish this colourful guy. One of the things that I do as part of my process, as well as creating the big shapes first, is that I work intuitively on the first layers. I don’t try and worry too much about the final result. This then gives me something to respond to in the following sessions. So I have added all the colours that I wanted to add and the wild and woolly hair. Today I will work back into the paintings and edit, tidying up some of the edges and leaving others, hopefully ending up with the final cow that I envision. Watch this space, I’ll post another photo of the final piece.

I enjoy painting on three panels, the finished effect is cool and contemporary and you get different looks depending on whether you leave a gap when you hang the paintings. I’m currently feeling very glad that I have rented this size of a studio, I remember during the pandemic, when I was painting at home and trying to create a big piece like this in the spare room - not easy!

A brand new collection - on the easel!

inspired by a recent commission, I have begun a colourful new series of lion portraits, here is one of those on the easel. This one is 76 x 76 cm and will be available for sale at £600 plus shipping once dry.

Wildlife Art Exhibition

This has been my first solo exhibition of work, taking place at The Green Man Gallery in Buxton. The Green Man is a collaborative venture operated by a group of local artists in residence. As such, the gallery is full of varied and very interesting work. I found the organisation to be faultless, leading to a really fun and enjoyable experience for my first show. Here are a few photos I took on the first day.

Two wildlife oil paintings accepted into the Sock Gallery Open

I entered the Summer Open Art Exhibition at the Sock Gallery Loughborough this year, and these two newly finished wildlife oil paintings were accepted. The gallery occupies the entrance of the Town Hall, and it is a beautiful building with great big rooms, high ceilings and big sweeping staircases, Like a theatre or cinema really. (update - it IS a theatre :) ) I am excited to go back and view the whole exhibition , which runs the whole month of August. These two contemporary wildlife art pieces are: ‘Midsummer Messenger’ owl painting , oil on canvas , size 60 x 60 cm, and ‘ Woodland Keeper’ deer painting at 60 x 76 cm, oil on stretched canvas.