by Paul | May 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hawthorn, Oil on Canvas, 20 x 24 inches Painted on Hampstead Heath last Sunday, with the City in the background.
by Paul | May 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Country Lane, Suffolk, Oil on Canvas, 19 x 12 inches I have a vague memory of reading a story in which the narrator stays in a guest house or at a friend’s country home and sees a picture on the wall. The picture fascinates him because it has a path in it, and...
by Paul | Apr 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Terracotta figures, Oil on Canvas, 31 x 40 inches For some time now I’ve been going to a sculpture class every Wednesday evening at Heatherley’s School of Art (tutored by Gil Whyman). I’ve done so many of these terracotta figures that they’re...
by Paul | Mar 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Lucy, Oil on Canvas, 52 x 40 inches There is often an assumption that paintings are the result of preparatory sketches. I can see the logic, but it’s never worked that way for me. Drawing has always been an end in itself. Drawing does however sometimes lead...
by Paul | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Natasha, Oil on Card, approx. 8 x 6 inches This is the painting I did for the National Portrait Gallery gala dinner, attended by the Duchess of Cambridge and I can’t remember who else (I think David Bailey was there). I’m trying to name-drop since...
by Paul | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Bashshar, Oil on Canvas, 28 x 18 inches This is my friend Bashshar, who teaches moral and political philosophy at the American University of Beirut. In the picture he is marking essays on his laptop, lamenting the standard of his students, one of whom refers to...
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