abstract field patterns

 Tulip fields Netherlands

 Flower field, USA

 Circular crop fields, USA

Recent paintings

                                                         Seaside cafe ,30x45 cm

After a whole year spent painting aerial views in 2012, I have come back to earth for a few new Cornish paintings for my show at Cornwall Contemporary in late April.

                                               Moonrise, Godrevy beach, 45x45 cm - Sold

House above the surf, St Agnes, 60x60 cm

And I am of course still continuing aerial views because of the huge scope of opportunities for new paintings.

Here is St Ives in winter, 35x35 cm.

beautiful dereliction

Pacific wreck

old factory

iced house

ex supermarket, Bosnia

abandoned hotel, Tequendama

underwater statue of Jesus, Malta

abandoned apartments, Taiwan

disused rollercoaster, Japan

old cooling tower

abandoned railway, Ukraine

Sketchbook show

Allotment study 2012, acrylic on paper

 

A sketchbook show has just started at Cornwall Contemporary gallery in Penzance and these two paintings on paper are included. They sit between a sketch and a finished painting; preparotary paint sketches/studies where I crystalise colour and compositions for the final work. They are both allotment aerial view studies and are on thick watercolour paper.

Since they are unframed and on paper they're a very reasonable price for a 50x35 cm painting. See www.cornwallcontemporary.com for more details.

Allotment study 2013, acrylic/ paper

furnishings poster, made in France 1965

showing in January

 Firstly happy new year and thanks to everyone who came to the exhibitions in 2012 and/or bought paintings. It was a great year with lots of new themes developed,  and actually every single painting made last year was an aerial view so it was a different approach to past years.
I am showing at a couple of venues in January, firstly in the 'All at Sea ' exhibition at the National Maritime museum, Falmouth (in conjunction with Beside the wave gallery). This has been on since September and runs till feb. 6th.
I am also showing at the London Art fair with Lemon Street gallery of Truro. This runs from 16-20 January, at the Business Design centre, 52 Upper st. ,London.

Harbour with fishing boat. 55x55 cm.

 

Harbour with evening shadows. 96x122 cm. Sold.

Landing stages .24x122 cm.

These paintings are at the National Maritime museum.

Allotments series

 Allotments from the air (no. 3) 45x45 cm ,acrylic on board . 2012. Sold

Here's the third painting in the allotments series, variations on a theme about different land use on a grid of identical allotment plots.  Flat use of colour and glazes lets abstraction take over the painting from the very start. My aerial photo , taken from a helicopter last year is little more than a starting point and a reference when needed.
This series looks back in some ways to my paintings in the late 1990s about large ships hulls in Falmouth harbour , where I used the marks and colour grades on the hulls to create paintings which had some elements of landscape.

Blue Ridge 2 , 70 x 110 cm , acrylic on canvas. Painted in 1997.