Autumn… We’ve had beautiful colours in the trees this year, but it’s already November and we can feel the approach of Winter. Time to light the wood burning stove and hibernate, brush in hand.

“There will be honey for tea”. Acrylic inks and markers on bristol board. 20x29cm. Now in the private collection of J&D.N.

Conkers. Acrylic inks on bristol board. 15x20cm. Now in the private collection of P.H.

I’ve spent the last 3 weeks on this commission. I really enjoyed painting it, and they like it.

for R.H.

My latest one, I’ve been working on that one for the last 4 weeks.

And one I’ve been working on (and off) for some months…

Both are now in Coast Gallery, Cloughton, along with “Down Danby Dale”.

Still painting Heather, as its colour fades away on the moors…

Danby Dale. oil on canvas, 30x30cm. Reserved for S.P.

Down Danby Dale. oil on canvas, 50x70cm. to be exhibited at Coast Gallery soon.

detail of Down Danby Dale

foreground detail of Down Danby Dale.

Thank you to all those who came to see me at Staithes Art Fest. Wonderful to meet you or see you again.
See you again next year?…

Westerdale. Sold at Staithes Art Festival.

Westerdale. Now in the private collection of Mr E.B.

Westerdale, that quiet place of sweet sorrow.

The latest commission is finished (and she likes it, which is great), and now time to prepare for Staithes Art Festival (9, 10 & 11 September). Here are some of my recent and very small paintings.

Golden Lake, Scampston Hall. Acrylics & metal leaf, 9x14cm (approx 4×5″)Reserved for M.J.

Silver Lake, Scampston Hall. Acrylics & metal leaf, 9x14cm (approx 4×5″)Now sold

Red Trees 2. Acrylics & metal leaf. 7x12cm (approx 3×5″)

Impressions of North Yorkshire. Acrylic inks. 9x14cm (approx 4×6″)Reserved.

Some of the smaller paintings I’ve done recently. (I’m working on a commission and have time to experiment while the layers of oil paint dry…)

Whitby Abbey Crow. mixed media.

Whitby Abbey. watercolour.

Tree on Red. Acrylic markers and acrylic inks.

It is summer in England! Really, it has been hot for 3 days. But I still find time to paint, although distracted by sunshine. This is my latest one, I showed it on facebook one evening, and had sold it by the following morning. It’s a painting of thirds, with a heavily textured foreground.

Thank you to those of you who came to Whitby Art Fair, and also to those who went to Horsforth Walk of Art last weekend, where someone who has been buying my work for the last 10 years exhibited his collection. I’m so lucky that such good people like my work. Here’s the first painting he bought, in 2006.