Pink Stars in the Sky
In the early spring of 2024 I noticed the way the flowers on my clematis armandii sparked as they grew through my neighbour’s overgrown leylandii trees. I waited for the right day to take the photo and here’s the painting. Only a few weeks later my neighbour cut down the trees and the flowers disappeared. They’ll be back next year but the trees won’t be so high.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2024
£130
Ashdown Forest Waterfall
Ashdown Forest is a place of wonder and magic. Mostly it’s heathland with stunning views but centuries ago it was also the centre of the iron industry and it is said that the ships that fought the Armada were made from iron and oak from Ashdown Forest. Nowadays this means that if you wander the forest you will stumble across little streams, pools and waterfalls where the water and the rocks are tinted russet from the iron in the soil. I couldn’t resist painting this image. There’s something so luxurious about the red earth pigments and it was lovely to use so many of them in this.
Oil on linen, 40 x 30cms, 2024
£130
Sunset over Beachy Head Light House, Sussex
This is the second one of my paintings of Beachy Head Lighthouse. I love the comparative vulnerability of the lighthouse beneath those golden cliffs. Of course the cliffs are actually chalk but when the sun is setting they glow the most amazing colour.
Oil on linen, 30 x 40cms, 2024
£130
Beachy Head Light House, Sussex
There are two light houses near Beachy Head in Sussex Head. One is called Belle Tout and can just be seen at the top of the final cliff in my painting of the Seven Sisters. The other is the Beach Head Light House which nestles at the foot of Beach Head. I love painting the sea at sunset or sunrise and so I just had to paint this.
Oil on linen, 30 x 40cms, 2023
SOLD
The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells
The Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells is a well known tourist destination in the South East. In 2022 I was commissioned to do a painting of it for a lovely lady who lives in the town. (You can see an image of that painting on the Commissions section of my Portfolio). This little painting comes from one of the photos I took in preparation for that commission.
Oil on linen, 30 x 40cms, 2023
£120
The Cuckmere River from High and Over
The Cuckmere River is the iconic river of Sussex and there are so many paintings of it as it meanders down to Cuckmere Haven and the English Channel. This painting is the view from the delightfully named High and Over in Seaford. The hill in the distance to the right is Seaford Head and the hills on the left are the Seven Sisters.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2023
SOLD
Buckingham Palace from St James’s Park
This painting of Buckingham Palace is based on a photo I took whist walking across St James’s park one September evening on the way to a meeting. I loved the sky and the way it reflected in the water.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2020
SOLD
Limehouse Basin
A friend kindly let me use his photo of Limehouse Basin as the basis of this painting. The sky was so spectacular and I loved the colour it turned the Thames.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 70cms, 2021
SOLD
Sussex stream in Winter
This is the stream in a park near where I live. I love walking the dog beside it and it seems to change every time I go there. This particular winter day the stream and its banks seemed to make an almost abstract pattern which was particularly attractive.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 40cms,2020 SOLD
Also available as a limited edition, signed A3 sized print, £35
Sussex stream in Early Spring
This is the stream in a park near where I live. I love walking the dog beside it and it seems to change every time I go there. On this particular early spring day the stream and its banks looked especially verdant.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 40cms, 2020
Original for sale, £145
Bluebell Wood
There is a strip of woodland that glows with bluebells in the spring and is right behind the local Waitrose car park!
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2019
SOLD
Bluebells in Darch’s Wood
We sometimes walk our dog in Darch’s Wood in Heathfield, East Sussex. This year the bluebells were spectacular. I love the way the flowers range in colour from deepest ultramarine to almost white depending on how the sunlight falls on them.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30cms, 2021
Original for sale, £95
Summer Evening
This was painted for the March challenge on the Landscape Artists UK FaceBook Group and I was more than a little pleased that it achieved first place. The reference photograph was provided by a member of the group and is of a view near Windmill Hill Woods, in Ludgershall, Wiltshire. I loved the way the sunlight burst through the tree branches and the golden tone of the overall picture.
Oil on linen, 40 x 50cms, 2022
SOLD
Wood’s Mill
Wood’s Mill is the Sussex Wildlife Trust HQ at Henfield in West Sussex. There is a nature reserve there and I went for a guided walk around it early in 2022. I loved the smoke rising from a chimney in the far distance and the lush greens in the foreground.
Oil on linen, 30 x 40cms, 2022
Original for sale, £120
Fields south of Crowborough
This is the view I see when I take my dog for a walk sometimes. It’s very peaceful and you can’t hear anything but bird song but it’s only walkable in dry weather. When it’s wet you can sink up to your knees in sticky clay.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50cms, 2020
Original for sale, £125
High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
This is the another view I get when dog walking. The photo on which the painting is based was taken from one of the highest points in Sussex and looks over the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Sussex border with Kent.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50cms, 2020
Original for sale, £145
Cattle grazing
I took the photo this is based upon on the way to the pub one evening. Sadly the field where the cattle are grazing is soon to be covered with housing and so I had to paint this to preserve the beauty that once was there.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2019
SOLD
Path on Ashdown Forest
Sometimes we pop the dog in the car and take her to Ashdown Forest. This is a typical Forest path and I can just imagine her snuffling in the undergrowth.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30cms, 2020
Original for sale, £75
Sussex pond
This is the pond in the local country park and another place we sometimes walk the dog. I loved the reflections on the water and the abstract patterns the twiggy trees and bushes make.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 60cms, 2020
Original for sale, £175
Stream in the Country Park
This is the stream in the local country park and another place we sometimes walk the dog. I loved the different foliage and the slate blue of the water.
Oil on canvas, A2 sized, 2020
SOLD
Sussex by-way
This is the by-way we walk to get to the pub and it looks lovely dappled in sunlight. Sadly it won’t be like this much longer as the fields on either side are soon to be covered with houses and I just can’t see this byway staying the same once that happens.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30cms, 2020
SOLD
Yellow daisies
Another scene from walking the dog, this time in the local park. This particular pathway is now lined with trees and yellow daisies have gone which is a shame as they were spectacular that one year they were there.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2019
Original for sale, £75
Snowy Ashdown Forest
Christmas card anyone! I loved painting the globules of snow on the tree branches - very tactile and a lot of fun.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30cms, 2020
Original for sale, £75
View south towards the Downs
This is another of those views I see whilst walking the dog. In the far distance are the South Downs. I loved the different textures in the foreground and the golden fields in the mid distance.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2020
Original for sale, £75
View from Beachy Head
There’s nothing quite like walking on the South Downs on a sunny afternoon. The sea was like a mill pond on this day and the sky a beautiful pale blue striated with wisps of cloud
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50cms, 2020
Original for sale, £125
Seven Sisters
This is the iconic view of Sussex - Seven Sisters as viewed from Seaford Head. In Spring 2020 I went on a walk around the nature reserve at Seaford Head and took the reference photo for this picture as we reached the top of the hill. The sky was stunning and I knew I had to paint it.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 60cms, 2022
SOLD
Eastbourne Pier
We were walking the dog along the beach late one early spring afternoon and noticed the moon over the pier. It was such a peaceful scene I had to paint it.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40cms, 2022
SOLD
Breaking waves
This is actually a painting of waves breaking on Bognor beach although you’d never be able to guess that. I loved the threatening sky and the almost monotone colour of the sky and see together.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50cms, 2020
Original for sale, £160
Hidden Lake
This is based on a photo I took in September 2020 of the lake in the grounds of Arundel Castle in East Sussex. Although the lake itself isn’t hidden as you walk around it you get these views which seem like you are a looking in on a hidden world. Everything was so green and lush it begged to be painted.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 70cms, 2021
Original for sale, £300
Arundel Castle
This is based on a photo I took in September 2020 of Arundel Castle in East Sussex. I loved the way the castle seemed to loom over the pathway below. We were lucky enough to visit before the robbery there a few months later when the exquisite gold rosary which Mary Queen of Scots took to the scaffold, was stolen.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 70cms, 2021
Original for sale, £145