About the Artist 

As an artist, I find particular inspiration in vibrant city streets at night, vineyards, timeless villages and towns, and the lived-in architecture of old and characterful buildings. Normally I work from my own photographs (sometimes a synthesis of several, as with A Letter from Vincent van Gogh), creating painterly interpretations of images that are very personal to me. My principal medium at present is acrylic, though I also paint in watercolour and enjoy drawing, mainly using a 4 or 5B pencil which allows for a wide range of tones whilst retaining a precise line (see for example Le Pollet, Dieppe). I like engaging closely with line and colour, the challenge of mixingcolour on the palette yet deploying combined pure colours with the brush. Sometimes I favour the explicit combination of colour and line: see for example Avignon: from the Palais des Papes. 

A particular painting might relate to an aspect of art history: Au Lapin Agile at Night features a Montmartre cabaret well known to Picasso and 

Van Gogh, while A Letter from Vincent… shows the courtyard of 54 rue Lepic, Montmartre, Paris, which had been Van Gogh’s residence in 1886-88. In this painting, a letter has arrived from Vincent - now living in Arles in the South of France - to his brother Theo, who was an art dealer. As is well known, Vincent van Gogh was a prolific letter-writer. 

I am happy to undertake commissions; some of my work is available as archive quality prints and greetings cards. I am a member of the Society of Eastbourne Artists. 

This website was designed by NH Associates, and I would like to express my gratitude to Nigel Holt for his painstaking hard work and for everything he has done to bring this project to fruition. I would also like to thank the following individuals, for whose help and encouragement I am extremely grateful: Mike and Liz Amos, Wendy Bishop, Sarah Boada-Momtahan, Sidney Chambers, Annie and Brian Connell, Sarah Cooper, Robert and Nathalie Flowers, Kath and Geoff Forrest, David Futter, Emma Mee, Frances Morley, Helen Poole, Alan Powers, Ben Ravilious, Julian Sutherland-Beatson, Margaret Timmers, Anita Vriend and Laina Watt.