Oil paint on canvas with flys
Should they be left on the canvas or should they be removed?
Category Archives: Art Works
Accounts about producing some of my paintings.
Cow Parsley and purple grass
Sometimes I tramp the byways of my territory becoming increasingly despairing about finding a location to settle at for painting. The other Saturday this was the case when walking along the […]
When is an artwork finished?
When is an artwork finished? I pronounced this painting complete back in January. Several weeks later I found that I was dissatisfied with it and decided to put it back on the easel.
Trees before buildings
Occasionally I develop projects that go off at a tangent to my major theme and very often they’re photographic. One such project I called ‘Trees before Buildings’.
The art of nature
Theres always a story behind my artworks and the story behind my new painting, completed on the last day of 2016, is pretty typical.
The smell of oil paint
If my studio isn’t infused with the smell of fresh oil paint then I know is been too long since I went out equipped to chronicle the current state of the Frome Valley.
Developing a painting
My studio paintings usually begin as an idea that spontaneously pops in to my head while I’m painting outside on one of my expeditions to the trees. My latest began […]
