Tuesday 25th August 2020Madeira Move
This article in the Tyne Valley Express tells of our move to Madeira and my latest painting, 'Homage to Riddlehamhope'. We hope to arrive in Madeira in time for the island's flower festival in September. We will be working on a new gallery there this autumn, and I have a separate studio to paint from, looking over the sea. For anyone wishing to visit the gallery, there is a small hotel just five minutes' walk away.
Tuesday 25th August 2020Homage to Riddlehamhope Sequence
These photographs show the progression of my painting of the former hunting lodge at Riddlehamhope. I've been drawn to paint this atmospheric building several times. It has recently been demolished completely.
Tuesday 21st July 2020Moor House Farm Feature
Thank you to the Tyne Valley Express magazine for this feature about my pair of Moor House Farm paintings. I enjoy painting abandoned buidlings which are fragile and fading, so that I can capture their fleeting beauty.
Tuesday 19th May 2020Empty Chair, Madeira
This painting of an empty chair in an abandoned dwelling in Madeira is paired, in a sense, with my earlier empty chair painting of a chair in an old house at Peakside, near Frosterly.
In each case, the chair looks as if a person just stood up and walked away from it, creating a mystery as to why the house was abandoned. I never change anything in the houses I paint and leave it to the person looking at the painting to fill in the gaps if they wish to, and to imagine the people who lived there.
Wednesday 11th March 2020Madeira - Tyne Valley Express Feature
Thank you, Tyne Valley Express magazine for this article about my work and time in Madeira, and the painting of the same name -
'Madeira' - such a beautiful island. Prints are available online or from my Prudhoe gallery.
Thursday 13th February 2020Madeira
‘Madeira’ is the result of my first visit to the island with my partner, Alison, in 2018. It’s an extraordinary island. Just 14 x 70 miles in size, it’s packed with zones of different terrains. The light is clean and bright and everything from bananas to bougainvillea grows in the fertile land.
Posted on February 13th 2020 on 03:55pm
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Thursday 13th February 2020Red Grooves, New Original and Print
This old house sits in Teesdale, between Westgate and Langdon Beck. 'Red Grooves' is surrounded by drift mines and backed by a long, deep scar that could have been formed by a melting glazier. It could either have been a farmhouse (there are crumbling remains of outbuildings too) or a mining manager’s house, as iron ore, coal and lead were all mined in that area. Both original and print are for sale.
A little further down the valley lies Flushimere and Flushimere House, which I have also painted.
Posted on February 13th 2020 on 03:44pm
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Thursday 30th January 2020Tyne Valley Express Feature
Thank you to the Tyne Valley Express for this piece about my work and my appearance on BBC's Countryfile.
Tuesday 12th November 2019Countryfile, Sunday 1st December
I spent an excellent 2 days with Countryfile‘s Matt and Dan last week as they filmed me painting near Stagshaw, Corbridge for the show. It will be screened at 6 pm on 1st Dec and the theme of the programme is Teesdale and Northumberland.
Producer Matt Smith wanted to see me exploring Northumberland to find windows, houses and landscapes to paint and we went up past Stagshaw, Corbridge, to film at Wall Fell Farm. Next, we walked across to Great Whittington Fell and filmed a window there.
This was at Wall Fell Farm. Filming finished up in my Prudhoe gallery.
Posted on November 12th 2019 on 11:42am
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Wednesday 11th September 2019September Series Feature, Tyne Valley Express
Thank you to the Tyne Valley Express for this feature about the latest six watercolours showing in my gallery this month. Visitors to the gallery are very welcome.
Posted on September 11th 2019 on 09:59am
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