Success at Hertford

Having been to the Hertford Open last year and seen the standard of entries, I thought that I would really like to see if I could come up to that standard and get one or two accepted this year. The acceptance rate is only 40% so I was going to have to aim high. It...

Entry for Hertford Open Exhibition

Currently working on a painting to be submitted to the Open Painting Exhibition in Hertford. This is a prestigious long standing exhibition open to all artists, but is subject to rigorous selection by the organizers so my I can only hope it meets their...

Sale of a painting for Home-start

  I rarely do commissions, but I had a request that I did not want to refuse as it would benefit the great charity my wife runs here in St Albans. I was asked to offer a painting for auction at the Mayor’s Charity Ball to be held in a local hotel. If the...

Realising a painting from the description of another

  This might seem a strange starting point for a painting, but it was one that was given to me recently to explore.  I found the challenge of translating a given description of another person’s painting into one of my own without seeing the said painting, a...

This is my Blog

The body of work I have established up to the end of 2010 has been the result of largly self taught practice and experiments with different media together with some part time tuition. This tuition has greatly helped me to explore different painitng techniques and has...