Wallhangings

NEW!   Wallhangings at Great Northern Contemporary Craft and Art Fair, Newcastle.  All sold.

New series of abstract paintings

The above painting "The Red Road" is special for me - a breakthrough moment between shape, subject and colour.   The series abstract paintings below are a development of this painting. 

Abstract sketches

Free interpretations from a series of 30+ landscape sketches made during a visit to the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire in 2017.  Small works on card, using acrylic paint and allowing it to go as it pleases to unexpected effect.  Ongoing…

Abstract horse drawings from the archive

I discovered these semi abstract drawings in my archive.  I did them as part of preparation for my exhibition, "The Horse in the Heart"at Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh in 2016. They seemed very daring and strange at the time!  Now I…
Iberian horse

The Festival of the Iberian Horse 2024

The Festival of the Iberian Horse 2024 - inspirational and thrilling.   This event celebrates the Lusitano breed of horse.          

Going into colour with monoprint

I have always loved this little sketch (above) and it is my latest project.  Why does it work? I have done loads of drawings, and now am at the stage of monoprint experiments.  Today I came up with this series of prints (below) to which…

Leaping Horse

 A quick canter through this project, from the original publicity photo for a Springsteen album to a final abstract version.  Thinking shapes and colour.  Feeling free to create!     …

Silhouettes in the Woods

Here I am returning to a favourite subject - a family of horses which for years lived in the field next to me .  I used to glimpse them everyday through the canopy of trees as I drove past.  I am excited to be looking at this subject again…

Drawings on canvas

 Super time making drawings which explore space but which are mostly born from imaginary subjects or are distantly related to real ones!All charcoal and paint on canvas 800 x 600 mm   More in the pipeline to make a series of …

Realism to abstraction

 I am revisiting a series of images from my 2022 exhibition "The Nature of the Horse".  Here is the first one.  I would like to explore it further and create a different version which will form a proposal for a new exhibition,…