I am an Artist and illustrator using mainly watercolour to capture urban and landscape scenes on location. I love to sketch from life, capturing the moment and energy of people and places.
All my ideas begin life in my sketchbook. Through my illustrations I aspire to convey the action, emotion, weather and energy of a place or an event.
Left picture: Sketching out and about in Skipton with my Derwent watercolour pencils.
You can see more recent sketches here
Above Left : Sketching at an auction Bicester Heritage Above Right: Sketching on Worthing beach
I find great joy being out in the open air, absorbing the atmosphere and watching the light change. So I paint outdoors when ever I can. I also take my sketchbook out regularly and use my drawings and reference notes to create my paintings when it’s not possible to complete them on the spot. Sign up to my newsletter for all the latest updates and offers on purchasing my work.
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Summer walk to Burnsall Watercolour
Sketching behind the scenes in Hintze Hall at the NHM London
Career highlight!
I was commissioned by Research Casting International Ltd (RCI) to work as a reportage artist (the art of visual story telling) to record the fabrication process of the blue whale skeleton ‘Hope’ which now hangs in the magnificent Hintze Hall at the Natural History Museum London.
To read about my encounters with the Blue whale skeleton please see my blog ‘Hangar to Hintze Hall – a journey of Hope’ on my website.
Lizard Whale
The painting below was created from life in the iconic Hangar at Bicester Heritage. The whale is yet to have the ribs attached and it looked spooky and magnificent with the light coming through the window behind. Chris Beck who projected managed the fabrication of the skeleton for RCI is preparing the metal armature created by the Skeleton Crew.
All the work I created of the whale can be purchased as a fine art limited edition print.
