It's been a long road back but in the last few weeks I've made four new paintings and finished off three more. I've also volunteered to be the new treasurer of the Portsmouth and Hampshire Art Society, it's an interesting departure for me and the benefits are already showing - new friends, new responsibilities, new hope for the future. The Summer Exhibition is in August and preparations are in full flow, I've even finished, labelled and wrapped my works ready for the show - m

There's a lot of ok art laying about the place and it's about time I did something about it; cleaned it up, finished anything left undone, varnished and framed it ready for its potential new home. The first of my thus refreshed works is below, called The Earth Dies Screaming. Beyond that, I have a few things on the go, however slowly, trying desperately to resurrect my will to work, to be in the studio to forget for even a moment the ongoing trauma of executing my mum's estat

Come along and say "Hi!", I've got lots on offer too Here's the poster for St. Jude's Craft Fair. I'll have lots of cards and prints on...

Aside from the exhibition last March to raise money for Breast Cancer Now and managing to get a few things done for the PHAS summer show...

Last week was the PHAS Summer Exhibition, earlier in the year than usual and only one week instead of two BUT, I managed to get it...

OK, so I haven't managed to post during or immediately post the exhibition but it was all rather breathless in the end. It was going ok,...

New idea from old idea really. My wirework nude did well at the summer exhibition - sold really quickly and got a lot of positive...

and a lot has happened. An awful lot, most of it awful too. The first half of 2024 was spent caring for my wife Sarah as she became...

It's been a few weeks now since our exhibition closed. Overall I think it was pretty successful - Carrie sold quite a few pieces, we had...

Once Carrie and I had decided to leave Fire Monkeys, the question of what we do next, together or individually obviously loomed large....

I am still having some problems with this site since its migration to Yell/Wix - the shop still doesn't work and I'm writing this on my...

So, the day came and Carrie and I have left Fire Monkeys, the collective project we were involved in starting seven long years ago....

Many years ago, when I was but a callow youth, I designed a few posters for Portents, the Portsmouth Poly entertainment team. This one...

Once upon a time Portsmouth City Council had the very bright idea of organising an open art exhibition at the city museum. Sadly, it...

Things have been happening that meant art taking something of a back seat for a while. All is well now and I'm back thinking about and...

A while ago I watched two programmes on gambling, one of which was presented by Pompey hero and self-confessed addict, Paul Merson. Both...

A week away was much needed so to Clifton we went. A lovely time was had; Bristol museum and gallery, the Arnofini with an interesting,...

I wanted to experiment with glass again and came up with the idea based on the continuing lies, cover-ups and gaslighting surrounding the...

First up, I've had covid. Thankfully mildly - I'm fully vaccinated - but it's still very debilitating as you really don't feel up to...

It's a bit of a trek by car to Gosport but it has to be done when the only contemporary gallery in the area that takes work by all sorts...