OK, I admit there are no animals in this one! But this is one of my favourite trees, I just love the way it looks and the beauty of it’s flowers when it’s in bloom in the spring. It really brightens up my day.

I’ve been wanting to do some paintings of London for a while now. Something that shows the beauty of city living, and this tree in Gordon Square is the first (and hopefully not the last) of that series. In fact, you might recognise this tree, it also appears in my Siamese cat painting, In The Pink, it’s the tree behind the stretching cat!

It was a beautiful sunny spring day and the light coming through the tree was full of hot colours. I used lots of small marks to capture the sparkle of the light and the warmth of those colours.

City Park Sunshine
10×8 inch acrylic on board
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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.