This little print was inspired by a challenge to do something in black and white. Not my usual territory! I thought it would be easier to start with a black and white dog, and Bull Terriers are beautiful dogs, so I wanted to try and capture Boo in black and white. In the end I couldn’t quite manage it, I had to leave her pink tongue! But it was fun to try doing something very different and I’m pleased with the end result. I think it has captured her smile.

This is a painting for the Ashdown Forest show in May. Fallow deer grazing in the bracken in the woods. It’s painted in acrylics with lots of thick, juicy paint strokes to create the autumn colour in the bracken, I wanted it to be more abstract and colourful than realistic.

Here’s a close up of the paint surface…

This recent commission of Justin was a lot of fun to paint. He’s a good looking Siamese cat and standing in front of the flowers  adds another colourful dimension to the portrait.

This is a 16×12 acrylic on paper.

Here is my new Siamese cat painting, In The Pink.  It’s taken me a while to paint it. I loved the pose, Kimi stretching on the fence. He looks fabulous and his people kindly gave me permission to use him as a model. He makes a wonderful model too!

But it took me quite a while to get the backdrop right.

There are lots of different pinks, purples and reds in that tree!

I’ve even managed a tiny human figure in the garden, reading under a tree. That’s a first for me.

  I hope to exhibit it in the Society Of Feline Artists show in London in September. He is a 20×16 inch oil painting on canvas board.