Here is my latest commission. I hope Dr. G had a very happy birthday.

Staintondale.
Commission. oils. 40x120cm.

In March, I’ve been very lucky to be in North Yorkshire and to be commissioned to paint a landscape. I can’t show it to you yet (it’s a birthday present), so we’ll keep it hidden for now. I am really grateful to people who commission paintings or buy my work through galleries, and to my family and friends who help me so much in their own ways at this difficult time. Thank you.

Here are my latest paintings.

Autumn Blues. 30x40cm.
Painted for my cousin Lau.

Sledale. mixed media, 50x100cm.  (Now in the private collection of Mr and Mrs N.L.)

Westerdale. mixed media on canvas, 60x90cm. Exhibited in Coast Gallery, Cloughton (from 23 March). Now sold.

Happy New Year! I hope you’ll have a good year, full of health, peace, hope and projects, love and beauty, and full of things too, if you want things.

As some of you already know, my mother is very ill, and I’ll be spending a lot of time with her. I will also be painting, for that is my life and my passion, but I cannot plan ahead. I’ll be able to paint commissions, but possibly not within strict deadlines. I have decided not to undertake any solo exhibitions or open studios this year, to allow me to be with my mother when she needs me, but you’ll still be able to see some of my paintings in on-going exhibitions in North Yorkshire galleries from Cloughton to Loftus (there is a list of galleries on the “galleries” page). You can also contact me directly if you wish (my phone number is on the “contact” page). Thank you.

Here are two small watercolours to remind us of Summer…

Robin Hood’s Bay.
ink & watercolour, 11x15cm.

Staithes.
ink & watercolour, 12x16cm.

Really, thank you. If people didn’t buy my paintings, I would still paint, but I would be painting smaller work, and probably with kids’ paint rather than the finest artist’s materials. I feel very priviledged and lucky that you like my work.

It’s Staithes WinterFest this weekend! At Trig Point Hut 49 and other venues. Tomorrow from 10am til late, and Sunday til 3.30pm. With all kinds of work on show and/or for sale at Staithes WinterFest are (in no order): Caroline Riley, Peter Hicks, Graham Lowe, Barbara Renton Wood, Glenn Humphrey, Tracey Potter, Ray Bentley, Hilary Thorpe, Clothylde Vergnes, Mark Hickson, James Williams, Phil Cornelius, Jackie Stonehouse, Keith Blessed, Glynis Johnson, Gail Hurst, Lucy Wilson, Maggie Bede, Sarah Wilson, Sue Ford, Chris Carbro, Rebekah Findlay, Louise Findlay, Kit Hansell, Alan Young, Patrick Miller and Paul Ingram. Lute music by John Dowland and the gang, from a strolling Peter Lagan, back again in Staithes. Meet the artists, stay around after 6 on the Saturday for some entertainment, food and drink.
Trig Point is next to the main carpark at the top of Staithes. You’ll see these WW1 huts from the carpark.
I hope to see you there, and I hope the sun will shine as brightly as it did today.

Oil on canvas, 30x80cm.

On the road to Danby (Danby Castle on the left), August 2014, with the purple mantle of heather over the moors… I started this painting in August, but commissions, family health crises and life delayed its completion. Finished yesterday, it was going to be exhibited at Staithes WinterFest on 6 & 7 December, but I showed it on Facebook, and found someone who wanted to buy it. (which is brilliant, just brilliant.)

“Through my kitchen window, Lower Key Green, 2009”
Just as I was wondering how to pay the bills (the last commission paid for a trip to visit and help my mother who has cancer), the wonderful Mr and Mrs B. turned up out of the blue and bought this painting!
(one of my favourites, I hoped I could keep it for myself, but I’m glad it will help me to help my mother…)

There was an old chapel, abandonned and forlorn, near the top of Boulby Cliffs. Cattle would shelter in it, as did mice and birds. But it was renovated, and now looks very grand. My latest painting, kindly commissioned by A. and S.

The original sketch

The Old Chapel, Loftus.
Oil on canvas, 50x70cm

130 artists will exhibit their work at Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage this weekend, so if you like art, there will be lots to see in this small coastal village in North Yorkshire. Some of my work will be exhibited in cottage 4a, Cowbar (near the Lifeboat). There will also be lots of music, workshops, activities, pop up cafes, sea, cliffs, seagulls…

I should have been there, but an urgent medical crisis in my family called me away. Thank you to all those who came to see me, and saw my work. I’m sorry I couldn’t be with you. If you want to see more of my work, or discuss a commission, please leave a message and your phone number on (UK) 01287 643030, and I’ll get back to you. Thank you.