It’s a version of that old childhood game, staring at the ceiling and seeing faces emerge. Here I’m staring at old paint marks on an...

It’s a rule I can’t repeat too often to myself: there is no substitute for drawing through ideas. All the daydreaming of images in the...

After a show opening or an open studios, the temptation is to do nothing. Just a day or two. But experience dictates that any day off...

The works are up- all fourteen stations by fourteen artists with very diverse practices and approaches- and it’s looking good. The...

In the build up to open studios and the group show, I find myself obsessed with the idea of doing something entirely unrelated and new,...

Detail from The Condemnation of Jesus (2015) oil on wood panel Seven successive days logged in the studio this week working on the final...

On the left: Nipping to the Shops, Holon, (2015) 90cm x 123cm oil/collage on canvas Getting work ready for Roundhay Open Studios 2015…...

I write almost every day on one blog or another. This is my personal reflective-of-my-own-work blog and if I’m reflecting in other ways...

Here’s an all time first. I’ve been staying the last fortnight with friends in their Indian Ocean paradise. As usual, I packed enough...

Hot sunny day, so nothing better than to creep inside and miss the sun in pursuit of painting. One of those phases where I revisit...

A few ingredients: 1. Flying visit to Louvre to see the Giotto exhibition 2. A box of crayons lurking in bottom of overloaded bag 3. A...

My ongoing fascination with the ordinary everyday is now particularly focussing on abnormal normality and issues of collaboration and...

Tidying up. Found some crayons. Found a mirror without any light. Just what was needed. #drawing #Portraiture #Selfportrait

#Painting #Portraiture #selfportraiture

On the point of scuttling out back to car and decided I had time for a quick oil painting. Placed materials and gilt wax on floor,...

I have an exhibition starting this weekend. It’s in a relatively small room adjacent to a larger dining area and bar at The Reliance in...

I’ve been in the studio every spare second this week. When I’ve not been driving the backstreets of south Leeds in search of target...

#drawing #projectprocess

Yes. Absolutely. It is intrusive behaviour, and goodness knows how I’d feel if someone captured me with my head back, mouth open and an...

Waiting at station to collect a young international concert pianist whom we are hosting this weekend. The train is due in a couple of...