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Toffee and Thistle

Den — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:08:56 +0000

This is one of my favourite paintings. I just love these two Bengals. They are so gorgeous and the position they’re curled up really makes me smile. It was such a joy to paint! I just wish I could have kept it.

Toffee and Thistle
14×11 acrylic on board
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This is a 14×11 inch acrylic painting on board. The background is made up of several layers of paint, the base colour was a warm pink with cooler lilacs over the top. As a result the background changes colour as the lighting changes, going from warm pinks to cool lilacs. Looks amazing but is very hard to photograph!

Here are a couple of close ups of the painting.

Spring Cleaning

Den — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:32:26 +0000

This is one of my favourite paintings! This lovely lad is Mirsku and as you can see, he’s quite a character. Very lively, full of fun and a great looking cat too. He lives in Finland with The King of Finland and his other feline subjects.

Spring Cleaning
10×8 inch acrylic on board
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I had lots of photos to choose from when I came to paint Mirsku but this pose, with him laying upside down casually washing a paw with his legs akimbo, really made me laugh. So I just couldn’t resist it. I wanted to capture that fun loving personality.

I used a board coated in Liquitex ceramic stucco to give it a rougher texture. You can see the texture in the detail photo above. He’s a grey and white cat but his fur is so full of colour, lilacs and blues with warm patches of naples yellow. A joy to paint!

Murray and Floss

Den — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:39:21 +0000

Murray and Floss in the garden. Two good looking dogs, a Sheltie and a little Japanese Spitz. Floss was quite a challenge to paint being all white.

Murray had lots of colour in his coat.

Coming Home Through The Snow

Den — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:41:22 +0000

Walking home in the snow can be a wonderful thing. The world is quiet, blanketed in the crisp, fresh snow. The flakes fall softly all around you, everything is shrouded in grey but the lights ahead glow with the warmth and comfort of home.

Coming Home Through The Snow
10×8 inch acrylic on board
£150

This winter scene is in St George’s Gardens in Central London.

This is a 10×8 inch oil painting on board.

A Weimaraner Christmas Card

Den — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:04:17 +0000

A new card. This gorgeous Weimaraner dog brings his significant owner a Christmas gift. I wonder if it’s bones? Or maybe a rubber ball?

Get them here…

Stag In The Glen

Den — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:12:41 +0000

I have a new limited edition print available from the painting Stag In The Glen. Find it in the animals gallery.

Cats Protection Winner

Den — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:12:32 +0000

Well the excitement of black cat awareness day is over and there were some amazing photos posted on cats protections facebook page! It really has inspired me to look for some more black cat models and do some more paintings.

Cats protection selected a gallery of their favourite photos, you can see them here. And I chose one of those 10 pictures to win the prize painting, Molly by Stephanie Stanesby.

City Park Sunshine – Regents Park Blossom

Den — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:18:48 +0000

Another City Park Sunshine landscape painting. Or perhaps that should be cityscape? This is Regents Park in spring. There’s a beautiful stand of cherry trees covered with blossoms near the boating lake on the south of the park.

It’s a wonderful place to sit and this year spring was early and hot. It was glorious! :-)

Regents Park Blossom
10×8 inch acrylic on board
£150

This painting is a 10×8 inch acrylic on board. Do email me if you’d like it.

A close up of the painting.