Talk about Whispering Glass Painting for Saturday Night Live Art Shows
Talking about Whispering Glass for this week’s Saturday Night Live Art Shows Video.
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Wembley Stadium Art – Why images matter.
Designer Stadium is a Wembley Stadium Artwork that I’m proud of. Not least because it was a struggle to create. When I started working on London Architecture, I wanted to create a piece of Wembley Stadium Art and ended up using one of the worst photographs I’ve ever worked from. Backstory: I’d decided to use
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Looking up, I found my Inspiration in the Roof of the British Museum!
Visiting small Art Galleries, it’s the art that inspires. When you visit public galleries and museums, you’re as likely to be inspired by the building as well as the content. The roof of the British museum is an elegant example
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London Bridge Painting reflections
Looking at this urban scene, it’s hard to believe that the waters of the great river Thames flow below you. The London Bridge painting shows the scene after a heavy rainfall. The pavement and roads are saturated. Light reflects on the watered walkway, as people walk briskly to shelter. Long reflections cast in the puddles.
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Quarry Bank Mill Painting The Grime
Dirty Old Mill is the second painting I did of this mill. When creating the Quarry Bank Mill painting featuring the historic building in Styal, Cheshire, I was sure of one thing.There’s something wrong with this reference image. When you look you see a well maintained building, it’s almost pristine, and that’s the problem. A
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Rainy reflections at St Pancras
The more I look at St Pancras Reflections, the more I feel that I’m looking at a mirage. Shimmering, rainy reflections caused by the zigzag lines. There’s plenty of colour, but the effect is ephemeral and spirit like. That sense of the image disappearing into the ether, and leaving you looking at a cloud, a
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Contemporary Gracechurch Street Painting – Getting close to art through video
Taking a closer look at my Painting of the Week in video..
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Meditating on The Painting of Gracechurch Street
The buildings in this painting of Gracechurch Street loom overhead. You’ll be forgiven for thinking what church is this? It seems like you’re gazing on a clock tower but far from it. Captured Time The clock is suspended on the wall, from a curved iron bracket in the foreground. The hour is 2:40pm and the
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Hot Tin View – texture in abstract paintings
Glorious green roof besides a wall like molten lava on an alien world, in Manchester, With Hot Tin View I continued to experiment with texture in abstract paintings. It originated as a chance passing on a photo shoot in Manchester. I was on my way back to the car and went down one of the
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