I take my inspiration from the environment I find myself in.

A variety of media; oils, pastel and watercolour. In addition to the following gallery, please browse my blog posts, e.g. of Cornwall paintings.

Studio Landscapes

Sometimes a larger work is developed from the Plein Air paintings.

Dawn, Flooded Fields, Gordano Valley. 16×20 inch

Kilkenny Bay

Portbury Wharf Pylon, 18×22 inch

Pink Drift

Rain Band

Mediterranean Highway

Emergent Tanker

Sulphur Glow

Winter Wave

Orange Slipway

Frosty Headland, Redcliffe Bay 20×24 inch

Passage

Plein Air

All of these paintings have been completed outside using my pochade box which allows contains everything I need and can store two wet 12 inch wide boards.

I’ve included several galleries below showing work from my doorstep, Portishead, the local area, the West, Wales and a few from the North.

Obviously being on my doorstep literally the Severn coast in Portishead is a dominant subject.

Sunny Showers, Redcliffe Bay

Boat Hoist, Portishead

Blackthorn Black Nore, 12×12 inch

Battery Point January, 10×12

Black Nore (not quite) Last Light, 10×12 inch

Last Light, Black Nore

Winter Severn Sun, 10×12 inch

Fishing of the Lifeboat Beach

Clapton Moor Path to Reserve, 8×16 inch

Winter Seagrass on the Severn 24×12 inch

A few of the local area Bristol, Bath and Clevedon.

Dusk, Clifton

Distant Friesans Catcott, 10×10 inch

Za Za Bazaar

Easter Snow, Gorge Evening, 12×24 inch

St Mary Redcliffe, 10×12 inch

Christmas Market, Bath

Westward Ho! Ferry WSM

Himalayan Balsam, Bath

Dawn over SS Great Britain

Pill Heat, 8×16 inch

Clevedon Pier

Further west towards wild Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Last to Leave, 6×12 inch

Dawn from Castle, St Mary

Cape Rocks, 12×24 inch

Lizard Lifeboat Station

Cape Cornwall, Sea Glare, 6×12 inch

Into the Gale, 10×12 inch

Lifeguard Shift

Botallack, 12×24 inch

Coastal Haze, 20×20 inch

A few from the North to finish off.

Castleton Gorge

Morning Wold

Dawn, Saltwick Nab