I look forward to the Preston Portrait Challenge every year! Below is a blog post about my experience at this year's event. The Preston...

Hello everyone! I appeared on Series 9 Episode 4 of Sky Landscape Artist of the Year as a pod artist this week, which was filmed at...

I've not posted for quite a while as I've been busy working on gallery commitments and doing a lot of studio and plein air work. I...

I appeared (very briefly!) as a "wildcard" on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2023 (S8 E1) last week. It was filmed in Blackpool...

I haven't posted on my blog for a while as I've had a lot going on. I was recently in Hong Kong for family reasons but I managed to get...

I’m well chuffed! I won 1st Prize at the Painting Padiham exhibition today. Thanks to Picture House and everyone who organised the event,...

I took part in Painting Padiham at the weekend. It’s a brilliant event; very well organised and I had a great day. I just wish more...

I'm really pleased to announce that my painting Luk Yu Tea House has been selected for the TALP Open 2022 at Patchings Art Centre,...

A nice article about my work and upcoming exhibition in Blog Preston (click image for link).

To the big group of teenagers who came along and started skinny dipping right in front of my painting, I forgot to tell you a family...

A few photos from my recent painting of Castle Lane in Garstang. A few passersby/residents seemed a bit bemused about why I had chosen to...

I’ll be putting on a solo exhibition at Garstang Arts Centre in May this year (more details soon) so that can only mean one thing… lots...

A painting from yesterday in Garstang. I made a little video of the process too…

Despite being only a 20-minute drive away, I’d actually never properly visited Garstang until a couple of months ago. I went one Sunday...

Painting in the car, or ‘en plein car’ as I like to call it, is what I do when I feel like painting but can’t be bothered going out in...

The winter weather along with other work commitments means I've not been doing as much plein air work as I'd like lately. Here's a small...

I haven’t been doing much plein air painting much lately, partly due to the weather, partly due to a commission I’ve been working on plus...

I haven’t been out painting for a month, so to get into the Christmas spirit I went out today to paint the Christmas tree and the new...

The weather was beautiful today. I love the shadows the low winter sun casts. I found this nice little view on Blackleach Lane, Salwick...

Hand & Dagger, 12 x 8” oil on linen Here’s a time-lapse video I made of me painting it: https://youtu.be/mb5FfgDtJO4 I filmed it all on...