For the last 12 years I have shown paintings and prints, in public spaces around the North and Scotland.
i have shown work up and down the East Coast mainline in waiting rooms and lounges from Edinburgh to Leeds.
In beautiful listed buildings in Newcastle, Comedy clubs and bars.
In a fine Cathedral and a beautiful, Victorian park and shopping arcade.
In Universities and on Cricket Club Grounds.
This website documents these shows and paintings, Enjoy.
For many years I have painted our crisp northrn skies, fully realising the luxury of being able to do so.
I would like to celebrate our open skies again while we can do what so many cannot
SHOWING IN QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY LONDON MILE END LIBRARY
1ST-7TH JUNE 2026
The Pleasure is to Play, is a not-for-profit show.
there are 5 paintings;
The Pleasure is to PLAY,
So Many Moons we have seen stumbling back next to me
ice cream
early evening horsetails
come on in I'm gonna teach ya how te swim
for many years i have painted our beautiful crisp northern coastal skies fully realising the luxury of doing so. The Pleasure is to Play is a not-for-profit freestanding painting show, that celebrates our open skies while so many others cannot.
From the quick line drawings of our crisp north east coastal skies,
as they form and disappear with their suggested narrative,
the tonal tempera under painting on panel, used for its clarity, luminosity and economy,
the sparse use of pigment with oil and dammar,
and the beeswax used to soften and unify the panel,
All have fleeting clarity, an always transitional, often illusory grasp of detail and understanding.
The title is sage advise from my mother in law. Cuts through all the confusion.
PAINTINGS CHOSEN FOR NEWCASTLE UNI STUDENT UNION
exhibition and gallery shop
regular stall selling prints posters and postcards in Tynemouth Station
For the last 12 years I have shown paintings and prints, in public spaces around the North and Scotland.
I have shown work up and down the Eastcoast mainline in waiting rooms and lounges from Edinburgh to Leeds.
In beautiful listed buildings in Newcastle. Comedy clubs and bars.
In a fine Cathedral and a beautiful, Victorian park and shopping arcade, Universities and on Cricket Club grounds.
The Pleasure is to Play is a small retrospective of paintings and prints from these shows.
Held at the lovely Peoples Theatre Gallery, Newcastle. Oct-Dec. 2023
Peoples Theatre Gallery Newcastle '23
chosen for their colour, resilience and strength,
forcing their way through the Forsythia and ferns.
motifs repeated.
The title is a nice Dean Martin lyric.
Geraniums - chosen for their vibrant red colour.
A drawing, then a painting of the poor display in the
containers, in my garden.
The Ozone Smells Faintly of Geraniums. is a quote from QI. the book I was reading.
They have a particular and memorable smell.
Held during Love Parks Week, 29th June - 6th July 2022. Hosted by Keep Britain Tidy and Gateshead Council, campaigning for legislation to stop
development of free green spaces for community use.
white plane trails cut through all clouds
the title comes from a favourite Alex Harvey lyric
A contemporary transient exhibition of our ever changing skies,
*within the permanent structure of the cathedral,
holding the history and journey of its community in every stone.
a little more...
Chosen from the series of paintings, a little aside.
a line up with The Stand in mind,
some new, some old favourites and some never before shown.
a little aside..
..is a collection of pictures, colours, words and ideas that have stayed with me.
there is a human presence.
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From the quick line drawings with their suggested narrative,
the tonal tempera under painting on panel, used for its clarity, luminosity and economy,
the sparse use of pigment with oil and dammar,
and the beeswax used to soften and unify the panel,
a lot from a little.
the title is an adaptation of Sir James Huttons'
description of geological time.
Formed in the late 18th century, as he viewed the rock formations of Siccar Point Edinburgh.
'No vestige of a beginning....no prospect of an end.'
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