When someone uses a set of Bagpipes as a flame thrower, it’s an impressive sight, and one I was keen to capture. Sadly, I didn’t get the money shot as he’d stopped flaming when I took the photo, but that didn’t stop me from letting imagination fill in the blanks. There’s an overall impression of […]
Am I seeing things? The moment I started to paint this, the Robot appeared. I’d been drawn to the ornate hinges on the large black door and the fanlight above. The orange yellow glow of ink became his eyes. The arch or stones above his hair. A mouth looking slightly worried and a box body
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Nothing Special. This could be anywhere and I’m often asked where it is, and even when I answer, I see doubt in the person’s eyes. This wall is somewhere in Buckingham. It’s stone, irregular, weathered, the individual stones hard to see. There’s a patch of dressed stone to the right, part of a window frame.
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The scene is the Kensington Olympia station. The painting captures the grubbiness of a railway station. It seems no matter how well maintained it may be, there is a tiredness and careworn appearance within any railway station or undercover railway or underground station. Sure there are degrees but it’s still they’re the colours convey that
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