Signpost Painting

Details from signpost painting

Some details from a picture I made a while back.  It's painted with oil on an old white board.  

Untitled (Abstract #4) - Final Version

Here is the final version of a painting I did for my final design project at university.  It's a piece based on the site we were given for the project.  It was a place that had a lot of trees across the landscape, providing a canopy with tiny gaps that would open up to show the clear sky.  I've tried to capture some of what I saw here.  

The project later became about the way previous structures had marked the landscape.  I looked at boundaries, walls and the lines of buildings that had previously scarred the earth.  I think with this piece I had preempted this concept with my use of paint - I gouged lines into the blue paint and created layers over the top with the green and brown paint.  So, even without realising it, it became a good metaphor for the rest of the project.

Untitled (Abstract #4)

Untitled (Abstract #3) - Drip Painting

This is a watercolour painting expressing the concept for the design of a youth theatre I'd done for my architecture degree.  The pictures show it on display at the exhibition for my degree show in 2012. 

Skiddaw Painting

Skiddaw (2011), Oil on Canvas.

This painting was inspired by Skiddaw, a mountain in the English Lake District.  I was trying to achieve a swirling cloud to obscure the view.  I wanted a similar atmosphere to the reality of the fell, which seems to be constantly in the clouds.

Rough Sketches in Acrylic

Development of Plane and Boat Painting

Still-Life with Fruit, 2008

The Wolf, 2008

Educational piece, Acrylic on Plaster.

Painted with acrylics and applied directly onto plaster using only a palette knife.  The plaster had been applied to an MDF board in a rough manner, leaving the surface bumpy and grainy to give the painting an interesting effect.

Development of the Wolf's Head

Untitled (Still-life with Shuttlecock and Climbing Shoe), 2007

Untitled (Still-life).  Oil on Canvas.  2007.

Educational piece to practice the use of Oil paint.  The exercise involved picking objects that were interesting to me at the time.  I was also told by my tutor not to use any black in the piece which I think really helped (I was making everything really dark).  It's much more colourful and bright as a result.

Waterhead, 2007

Waterhead.  Oil on canvas.  2007.

Still-Life of Household Objects

Still-life of a pot and a kettle.  Oil paint on canvas board.  2007-ish.  

An exercise using just one colour of paint. 

Untitled (Abstract #1), 2006

Untitled (Abstract #1).  Acrylic on Canvas.  2006.

An experimental painting I did to try out some thick craft paints.

Untitled (Still-Life with bottles), 2006

Untitled (Still-Life with Bottles).  Oil on canvas.  2006.

Experimenting with thick oil paint.

Educational Work, 2005

Self-Portrait with Britney Spears.  Diptych with General House Paint on Paper.  2005.

Educational work.