I’ve been working on a series of watercolour moodscapes recently. The technique is wet into wet and I used a limited palette of Indian Red, Raw Sienna and Indigo. The form of each image emerged...

We have just launched our New Collections 2013 Exhibition at Art & Soul. Below are some photographs of the work, including atmospheric landscapes and skyscapes by myself, evocative black and white...

I’ve returned to the skyscape series this week. I really enjoyed this one as it just seemed to flow. The mountboard surface holds the pastel really well and so I could create depth through...

In this second of the Pendle series, I’ve zoomed in a little so that the hill is slightly more dominant. Again, it was the lighting effects around the hill that I wanted to capture. This will...

Here’s a taster of Art and Soul from our friends at Art Tutor.com. They introduce the clip as Burnley rather than Padiham but as they’re from the distant land of Liverpool, we’ll...

As promised, here’s the first of the Pendle series: ‘Sunset over Pendle from Roughlee’. I’m pleased with this one because it captures the light effect as the sun begins to...

I’m still working on the Pendle series which I’ll add to the blog soon but here’s a painting of Sunset over Southport Sands that I’ve finished off this week. It had been...

Here’s the final Piece, finished a couple of weeks ago. Quite pleased with this one and looking forward to doing some more on a large scale. I’ve also been working on a sunset over Pendle...

The large skyscape is getting there now I think. The blue-greens (which look like dark blue in the cloud area) have come out a bit strongly on the photograph – they’re a bit...