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I've been driving around the region today picking up paintings and dropping them off in preparation for the Harrison Lord Winter exhibition which starts on 23 September.  I have five paintings with them as well as some framed giclee prints.

Exhibition starts on 23 September 2017 and runs into early November. 

So I've bought a new gadget which means I can literally hang my phone from anything and set it up to film a painting in progress.  And this is what I did this weekend and as it is time lapsed you can see me paint one of my larger paintings in just a few seconds.  It does take me just a little b...

Last week I spent a whole afternoon adding some beautiful new colours to my stock of transfer papers.  Transfer papers allow me to make sketch type marks on my paintings and is basically a pigment rich version of carbon copy paper for those of you who can remember what that is!  This version use...

So Saltaire Arts Trail has been and gone for another year.  A big thank you to all of you who were able to make the event, especially friends and family who came to provide support, cake and for taking us to the pub at the end of each day. If you didn't get chance to visit us then here's a lit...

So at the end of May my framers, The Artworks, had their official opening of their new premises in Otley. They have renovated a beautiful old building for their framing business and are incorporating a gallery and exhibition space.  I have some of my paintings on show to demonstrate their excelle...

So no longer had the RBSA exhibition finished and I was off to the Bradford Open show.  Bradford being my home town and Cartwright Hall being a stone's throw away from Saltaire,  I was very pleased to find that I had one of my oil and cold wax paintings selected for this open competition. When I ...