On Saturday, I would normally have been in Pendle Gallery by the Weir but storm Amy would have blown all of my boards over – making the Gallery invisible (quite apart from keeping people away from...

I am really loving the variety of work that goes on at Soulspace Art Studio in our weekly Wednesday workshops. Working with their own choice of subject and materials, everyone seems to enjoy the...

These are exciting times – My daughter Natalie and I have been working on this new website and blog for several months now and we are ‘live’ at last! I am thrilled by the work that...

 A warm welcome to my very own ‘Pendle Gallery by the Weir’! It is a beautifully formed little gallery, nestling by the Weir in Barrowford Park (close to the Pendle Heritage Centre at...

 We have recently moved to a small but beautifully formed cottage at Roughlee which is situated in beautiful and wild countryside close to Pendle Hill. In fact we bought a large garden...

Below is one of the newly framed pieces for the Harrogate Art Fair (which is just a week away!). ‘Through the Veil’ is an original acrylic moodscape evoking a misty mountain scene inspired...

I went on a bit of an artistic journey this week – out of my comfort zone and into the land of portraiture. I was working from an old photograph of my wife Jo’s great grandad Edward...

Well, what a couple of years that has been! The pandemic forced a retreat from the studio and from exhibitions for a while and so, apart from one online workshop each week, my creative focus and...

And following my previous post showing the process of painting the first of the ‘Mountains and Mist, Scotland’ series, here’s a short video of ‘Ben Nevis Emerging (2)’...