
The Saltaire Studio

Sep 24, 2020
Lockdown for me meant very little painting... in fact almost no painting at all for 3 months. So when I eventually got round to thinking about doing something this painting literally fell out of my head!

Apr 12, 2020
16 warm-up paintings
Lock down has given me the time to do a lot of jobs that have been hanging around the house. It has also given me the opportunity to play! Here I have taken a very large piece of Arches Huille to create 16 warm-up paintings in one go.

Mar 28, 2020
A Shard of Light
This is an original oil and cold wax landscape painting which you can see me create from start to finish. It was a little bit tricky as there was a gap of a week between me starting and finishing the painting so how it started out was very different to how it ended up.

Jan 15, 2020
Blending on a large scale
Here I show you how I used a palette knife and a fan brush on a large scale to create atmospheric skies.

Nov 24, 2019
Creating a triptych
I have been experimenting with different sizes and different surfaces over the last couple of months and this painting was the result of two ideas coming together.

Sep 24, 2019
Scaling up
I have absolutely loved being back in the studio painting and this time I have been experimenting with scale and surface. For the last 3 years I have been mainly painting with cold wax on a smaller scale and on paper. I love working on the paper but you can only scale up so far with work that has to be behind glass, unless of course you fix the paper to the board and well I know that will just go terribly wrong for me.