The Traditional Artist
Watercolours, Pastels, Oil Colour.
I have always drawn and painted. First on the walls – like every annoying child. Then aged just four, I started copying faces from “Shoot!”, a 60’s football magazine. There are some passable coloured-pencil portraits of Nobby Stiles, Brian Labone, and Alan Clarke (a particular hero) still extant in the family archive. Mr Styles is neatly labelled “4+ years” by my proud mother.
“A reflection of my joint obsession with Oxford and architecture”.
Radcliffe, Camera, Oxford.
Watercolour
Photographer: Sebastian Mustone-Engler
Here’s the doughty Ian Maulkin, after his arrival in Charlestown MA. USA, with his new owner, Aleta. Ian still looks a little reserved after his transatlantic journey but Aleta was very happy with her purchase, to my great delight. It was pretty tricky getting him flown out to the USA during lockdown, but he’s settled in nicely now, Aleta tells me.
Purchase A Painting.
You can see some of my work here: past and present, sold and unsold, and some not for sale.
If you like something that is sold (or NFS) and you would like a reinterpretation of that image or a similar treatment let me know. I might be able to do something agreeable for you.
The watercolours and pastels tend to be priced by size so the sizes and prices of sold works should guide you about what to expect.
The oils take a lot longer and so the prices are steeper accordingly.
Collection Of Work.
I was inspired to take up portraiture again, by the boys at McKanna Meats in Holborn. I have known this butchers for years, and I wasn’t even looking for a subject but suddenly saw “something” there that I needed to explore.
Special Person Or Place?
If you’d like to commission an architectural watercolour or an oil portrait, please email. I do need to be interested in the challenge/subject. The result of the painting process is rather different from the immediate result from a smartphone. A commission is a one-of-a- kind piece and depending on the medium chosen, close to impossible to alter. We’d have to have a chat about this before I pick up my paintbrush so we are all going to be happy.
