Category Archives: Landscapes

‘Newark Townscapes’ exhibition at Spotlight Gallery

My solo exhibition, ‘Newark Townscapes’ is now on at the Spotlight Gallery in Newark Town Hall – until 13 Nov. For this exhibition, I set about creating a series of contemporary views of Newark inspired by the structures and textures of the … Continue reading

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Thoresby Exhibition – sneak preview

Here is one corner of the Thoresby gallery exhibition yesterday afternoon, with paintings and one of the sculptures in position and awaiting labels … … and these are some of my ceramic slumbering heads waiting to be positioned.

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Thoresby Exhibition of Landscape Paintings and Ceramic Sculpture

Yesterday I delivered paintings to the Thoresby Gallery for my solo exhibition,  ‘Light & Line in the Landscape‘, which starts on Tuesday. Cynthia has been hanging the paintings today, alongside a small selection of my ceramic sculptural works. There are … Continue reading

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My Rufford Abbey Paintings at the Rufford Spring Exhibition

I have a series of paintings at Rufford Park in the Creative Greenhouse spring exhibition, which opened last weekend.  Up until now, when painting Rufford, I have chosen to use square compositions, so when I began these paintings it was exciting to refresh the … Continue reading

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Newark Paintings at Thoresby and Harley

I haven’t written for a while as I’ve been so busy painting, putting on an open studio and sending work to galleries. As Christmas approaches, I wanted to put down something about the pieces I’ve been working on during the … Continue reading

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Thoresby Open Exhibition

Really pleased that Thoresby has selected three of my paintings for the Open Exhibition. This year the theme is ‘conflict’ and I chose to enter two paintings of Newark Castle together with a view of Nottingham’s market square that contrasts … Continue reading

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Southwell Minster Spring Fair

I’m going to be at the Southwell Minster Spring Fair on Saturday (5th March 2011) and have just started gathering things together for this. I will be displaying prints and art cards of my work alongside several new paintings, particularly … Continue reading

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Southwell Minster series – 7

Some time ago, I started a picture of Southwell Minster from a garden off Westgate – spent the day reworking it. I really liked the luxuriant cascading foliage hanging down in front of the Minster facade.

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Southwell Minster series – 6

Spent a short time finishing off the Minster painting (wanted to clarify some window and architectural details on the cathedral) before taking my Dad in for his cateract operation (right eye).  The op went fine.

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Southwell Minster series – 5

New canvas of the Minster – a view from Hill House field. The image is vibrant with a lemon light on the field and glows through the large chestnut leaves that frame the view of the Minster, itself dissolving in … Continue reading

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