I’m on a roll with landscapes at the moment it seems. Here’s one of Scotland. A glorious red stag with a backdrop of Scotland’s wonderful Glen Etive. I adore the Scottish landscape, it’s so breath taking!

What a fabulous excuse for luscious colour! Those reds and purples contrast so deliciously with the greens and yellows. Can you tell how much I enjoyed doing this one? :-)

This is a 16×12 inch acrylic painting on board.

Do contact me if you’d like it to hang on your wall.

I’ve really enjoyed watching the zebras enjoying the sunny spring this year. They are full of life and feeling frisky. That’s what inspired this painting. The zebras were chasing each other and checking behind them to see who was following.

Frisky Zebra
16×12 inches oil on board

And I managed to get him finished in time for last weekend’s show. Here he is framed.

I’ve been working on this painting of a black panther for quite some time. I went to the Santago Leopard project a while ago and saw this incredibly beautiful black leopard there. I was stunned by the sheer physicality of him! So much more muscular than the other big cats who looked like slender super models . He looked more like a bear! I started off with an idea for the cat to be looking up at a peacock, as both are from India. But it just didn’t look right. So I left the painting for a while and came back to it again recently.

Black Panther
16×12 oil on board

When I looked at it again I realised that the bird had no emotional content. The only thing that had any power was the panther! All along I had been unconsciously exploring my feeling of his size and presence in the painting and the poor bird had become irrelevant. So I cut the painting down to just the panther looking up into the trees and suddenly the painting sprang into life!

It just goes to show that sometimes you think you’re painting one thing, when really you’re painting something else entirely!

These Big Horn Sheep are in the Canadian Rockies. Handsome sheep and a good excuse to paint snow. This is a 20×16 inch acrylic painting on board.

It’s taken me a few days but I’ve finally got the photos from Bromley sorted out and up op on flickr!  Here they are….

Or view the slide show.

Cats, Dogs and Other Animals is on at The Ripley Arts Centre until the 28th of August.

Four pretty girls sitting in the long grass for a bite to eat, watching the world go by. I really like these girls, they have lovely faces and great expressions. This is a small oil painting, a 10×8 oil. I hope to do a larger painting of them soon.

And this is it framed…

The finished painting of the stag in the grassy glade in Ashdown Forest. It’s full of abstract grasses with splashes of wild flowers.

Acrylics on board, 12×12 inches. Here’s a close up of the grasses…

I haven’t thought of a good title for him yet. Any ideas gratefully received!

This painting of a family of elephants drinking at the water hole is a 20×16 inch oil on board. I’m hoping to sell this to raise money for the Environmental Investigation Agency, a charity who, among other things, campaign for species in peril around the world.

Water Hole
20×16 oil on board

I’ve painted this one as a donation for the Environmental Investigation Agency, a charity who, among other things, campaign for species in peril around the world.

River Crossing
60×30 cm acrylic on canvas

This painting, a tiger taking a cool dip in a forest pool, I painted for the Environmental Investigation Agency, a charity who, among other things, campaign for species in peril around the world. See more about their tiger campaign.

Bathing Tiger
20×16 acrylic on canvas

This painting will was auctioned on the 2nd of October 2007 at the Mall Galleries in aid of the EIA.