I made Christmas cards this year; an angel and a snowman. Simple drawings made with black and white ...

 As the year winds down, I look back on it as a remarkable one. A year when I was blessed with ...

It's difficult to become motivated and inspired during this madness when culture has been closed dow...

I have just finished another A3 poster for the Out Of Sight Out Of Mind exhibition to be shown in Su...

ART The Cooper Prize 2023 Exhibition, Barnsley I was thrilled and delighted to have my painting of a...

I recently designed another A3 poster for the Out Of Sight Out Of Mind exhibition to be shown in Sum...

I love this quote - "You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace." - Fr...

Jellies And Other Works, Picture House, City Screen York Sunday 23 April – Saturday 27 May. I hung 1...

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it," Sylvia Plath wrote in...

Get a word in edgeways number 2 (see 24/08/18, number 14 on blog) It is now almost 11 years since I ...

York has rejuvenated me. I have now been here almost a year and it still offers fascination and stim...

I got accepted! After years of rejection I got into The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. I a...

EDINBURGH TO YORK On the 19 January 2022 I moved to York after twenty-five and a half years living i...

I currently have a painting on display at the Scottish National Gallery as part of the Artists at Wo...

I watched an amazing documentary last night – Frank Auerbach - To The Studio - gave me goose bumps! ...

I took this photograph a few months ago at Tate Britain in the All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Cen...

I have recently been working on an A3 poster design for a Scottish Mental Health Art Festival exhibi...

This week I have been listening to (and painting and designing to) David Bowie, Sound + Vision Box S...

Welcome to my new website. Here are a few things that have caught my eyes and ears this week whilst ...

Leonardo da Vinci declared, "Art is never finished, only abandoned."I'm not sure about that but I do...