by Paul | Jun 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Barnes View, Oil on Canvas, approx. 60 x 30 inches There’s one week left to see a group show in which I have a few recent landscapes, including this one painted from my bedroom window. I don’t usually spend so long on a landscape or paint a landscape in...
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...
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