My Christmas Exhibition Preview weekend started 29th November. The exhibition continues until 24th December and is a collection of recent original watercolour paintings. Subjects include the Northumbrian coastline depicting famous landmarks like Dunstanburgh Castle. Paintings inspired by a trip to Amsterdam can also be seen. In particular this new limited edition print of Windmills seen […]
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Christmas Exhibition
Preview Weekend My Christmas Exhibition Preview weekend 9-11th November was very well attended with plenty of sales. Star of the show was “Grey Street, Snow Shower” featuring the Theatre Royal. It received a good number of print orders. Despite the rising cost of stamps, there were still plenty of folk buying my new Christmas Cards […]
Angel of the North Painting
Angel of the North Painting. Most folk have strong opinions about the Angel of the North. They either love it or hate it. Personally, I like it. It’s always a reminder that I’m not too far from home if I’ve been travelling from the South. One of my favourite paintings of the Angel of the North […]
Portrait by John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent One of my favourite artists of all time is the American John Singer Sargent. He’s one of the finest portrait painters of all time. Sargent trained under Carolus-Duran in Paris. One of the disciplines that Sargent practised to develop his craft was to make careful studies of the old masters whom he […]
North Shields, Fishing
A few weeks ago I was doing a watercolour demonstration for a class in Rothbury. As part of the lesson, I was showing the students how to begin a painting, in particular the sky. This is often the most difficult part of painting a landscape or seascape and can be quite daunting for the inexperienced. […]