Art rekindles a light-hearted feeling of satisfaction. I recently took a closer look at the work I've done so far and it seems to me that the happy figures, happy scenes and happy families, is the central theme to my work.
But it did not start this way.
Painting, I think, is about extending boundaries, like the way I choose to live my life, not playing it safe. And, so, I don't want to wake up one morning, ninety years gone, with a ' I Played it Safe' certificate hanging on my wall.
That's not the whole truth. I often analyse my self. I sat down and turned on the music and tried really hard to plumb mental depths hitherto unplumbed. Then it came to me - not from the mysterious deeps, but from the shallow surface - the best and simplest reason for practising art is!!! It’s a very personnel, rewarding, cathartic and therapeutic experience.
I’ve been to places on our planet that defy logic. I’ve met people on our planet that are so diverse, colourful, so loving and yet so cruel. I wanted to show my son in pictures some of the pleasures his dad has experienced and some of the horrors. Since art and life are inextricably entwined, it was a great experience for the two of us, to get to know each other.
My favourite tool is the trowel because it’s so functional. My favourite material is acrylic because it’s more vibrant than oil; it dries quicker and is very forgiving if you make an error.
What do I like best about what I do? I love people watching me whilst painting and engaging me about my art. What do I mean when I say that a piece of art has turned out really well? By-gum did I really do that?
The way I use colours, subject matter, textures or light is completely different than other artist and I can’t fully verbalize why. I like to believe it a gift.
My favourite colour is purple, I often get frustrated when painting that there are not enough colours in the world. I get angry because I can’t invent the colour I want.
When I work with others I am reminded that I’m not alone. So when I begin a piece of art I like others around. When my work is going well, I am filled with a sense of ore. I know a piece is finished when I hesitate.
When people see my work, they try analysing what’s going on in my head and they always get it wrong. The wow factor when they first set sight on it is worth waiting for.
Every artist should be, first of all, a craftsperson, knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium, well that counts me out, I’m just learning as I go along.
I believe that my ability to be creative depends fundamentally on my mental state and well-being.
Sometimes my method of working is rather unusual. I apply colour - a lot of colour to the surface, make sure I make a fine mess, and then I look at the mess for a long time and slowly sense begins to emerge from the reigning chaos.
I follow it and the painting takes its own shape, until at some point a balance is reached and a voice inside says, all right, that's it and I stop, the painting is finished.
I try thinking about what I’m going to paint before I start. My paintings come straight out of my minds-eye, straight onto the canvas, and I paint fast. I need to feel that energy pouring out of me! Through my brushes and come alive on the canvas.
Sometime I don’t think about what I am going to paint before I approach a canvas. All my favourite paintings are spur of the moment happenings that develop on the canvas as I paint. Everything I do is from memory or my minds-eye, that enables me total movement in any direction, then the painting decides to take me and then they become my own work.
I have always cherished Nature and I am powerfully drawn to painting mountains and trees. I use many techniques but when I paint a tree I think of the tree being tortured by the elements, that’s why they seem so real.
Ever since I started painting, art has become an indispensable part of my life. Each time I pick up a brush I initiate a dialogue with my inner self. Through this process I always come back enriched as a more complete individual.
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 Always Been Inspired by the Majesty of the Flamingo.
 Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
 Price: £233.00
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Inspired by Our Snowdonia National Park and It’s Wild Life.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £167.00
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Late At Night in the Still Warm Summer Air 2008.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £146.00
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Two of Two Paintings, Attempting To Put People Personalities in To the Building They Live In.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £133.00
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One of Two Paintings, Attempting To Put People Personalities in To the Building They Live In.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £134.00
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Fantasy Space Station, Some Where in the Depths of My Mind.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £234.00
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The African Family Unit, Locked in Poverty.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £166.00
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A Tribute To the Brave Men Whom Served Over the Years in Light Houses
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £112.00
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A Tribute To Brave Men and Women Or the Royal Airforce.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £123.00
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A Stubborn Old Tree, Surviving the Harshest of All Desert Environments
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £211.00
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Birds Eye View, of a Fantasy City Centre.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £267.00
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A Landscape With Magical Colours Is Depicting a Warm Evening Sunset.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £230.00
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Another Warm Picture of African Life, With Family Love, Hard Work and Poverty.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £126.00
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A Warm Picture of African Life, With Family Love, Hard Work and Poverty
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £125.00
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The Room We Called Home, Manchester Post War Living
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £233.00
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Fantasy Image of the Stork Delivering the Large Special Baby Bundle
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £198.00
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Fantasy Image of a Courting Couple Swimming in Love
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £97.00
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Peace On the Beach, the Sharing of Family Fun.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £123.00
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Australian Black Swan in All Its Majesty Swimming in To the Sun
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £113.00
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An Egyptian Camel Is Sniffing the Air in Anticipation.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £136.00
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Manchester’s Roof Tops During the Industrial Revolution.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £111.00
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A Wild Stormy Night On the Sychnant Pass Conwy
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £97.00
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A Bird’s Eye View
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £111.00
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The Workhorse of the Desert
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £111.00
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The Shimmering Haze of Africa.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £111.00
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Sherbet Fountain
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £134.00
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Late Summer in North Wales When the Heather Dies Back and the Nights Shorten.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £146.00
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Reflections in the Lake, Caught in the Twilight Hours.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £112.00
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The Old Derelict Windmill, Caught in the Twilight Hours.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £121.00
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Young Tree Sheltering From the Sea, Behind Its Mum
Size: 23.00" x 16.00"
Price: £228.00
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3d Leap Out of the Wall Beach
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £156.00
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Eat Your Heart Out Music Lovers
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £130.00
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Courting Couple in Dublin
Size: 11.00" x 16.00"
Price: £222.00
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Science Fiction Space Travel
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £111.00
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Calm Pink Sea of North Africa 18:00hrs April 2006
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £122.00
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Lost and At the Mercy of the Sea.
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £172.00
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African's Heat, Torturing It's Trees
Size: 16.00" x 11.00"
Price: £120.00
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Lost
Size: 23.00" x 16.00"
Price: £312.00
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