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)’...

Following my previous post, introducing the ‘Mountains and Mist, Scotland’ collection, I thought it would be nice to show you something of the ‘journey’ of the paintings...

For the last few years, I have travelled up to Scotland with my partner Jo and we have stayed at Watercolour Cottage in Ardgour on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The landscape is stunning in all its...