• Stoodley Pike!

    Just a quick post. I need to do some new prints for Steven at Harrison Lord Gallery, but I wanted to post this image of my newly finished painting of Stoodley Pike. It’s a large landscape inspired by a boxing day walk with my family. Hattie loves Stoodley Pike – she thinks it’s a magical […]

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    Printers’ Trays…

    I’ve been playing with old print trays recently. When I was little my Mum had lots of these trays in her antique shop in Suffolk and my sister and I were allowed one each in which to store our treasures. Mine was full of shells and pebbles and fossils. I’ve been playing around with this […]

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    Exhibition Date Announced!

    Back in November I began to exhibit with the wonderful Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge. The last two months with them have been brilliant and i am now proud to announce my first solo exhibition there. The new body of work, entitled Tall Trees and Warm Stone, will be previewing on Thursday 28th March. There […]

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  • Stoodley Pike

    The assault on Stoodley Pike begins…

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  • Happy New Year!

    After a three week Christmas extravaganza (my family do like to string it out – I think I had 3 Christmas dinners (all with their own leftovers)) I am back in my studio today with many good intentions for the year ahead! There has been quite a lot of ‘Art’ happening over Christmas. ‘Papie?’ is […]

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  • Meet the Maker…

    As I was gallivanting down in London with Hattie at the weekend (6th Birthday treat) and not at the opening of Heart Gallery’s wonderful Christmas exhibition, I am going to be in the gallery this Sunday (November 11th) for the first of their Meet the Maker series. I shall be there from 2 til 4. […]

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  • Heart Gallery Christmas Exhibition

    Next Sunday, November 4th, Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge launches it’s Christmas exhibition… I am delighted that they have given me a big wall to fill for the occasion! I am exhibiting 4 new original paintings, some framed prints, and a browser of prints. Here is a sneak preview of the new ones… There is […]

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  • A change of plan…

    It’s been a funny old week, the upshot of which is a change of plan. My new body of work (to be collected from the framers in the morning) will be a Spring Solo exhibition at the lovely Heart Gallery on Market Street, in Spring 2013. I will be taking part in Hearts Christmas exhibition, […]

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  • Tall Trees and Warm Stone

    At last I have a date for the Calder Gallery’s grand reopening for the beginning of November. After 4 months closed due to flood damage the Calder Gallery is reopening, with the preview of my solo exhibition on the evening of 2nd November, from 6 – 8pm. Please come along!

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  • New Work

    I’ve just finished this painting It’s a view from Royd Terrace looking across to Birchcliffe – always in the sunshine. I like the way the glass building reflects the sky in the middle of the painting. This will be in the exhibition at the Calder Gallery, for which I STILL don’t have a date! Though […]

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