Fine Art

Originals: portraits, figures, landscapes, still life

Painterly and colour-forward, in oil and soft pastel. Some of these are available, some have gone home with someone else, and some exist mostly to teach me something. Ask about any of them.

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Landscape painting of a sunlit path curving between green trees.

Selected work

Work by subject.

Portraits

Studio work in oil, built from structure outward rather than detail inward.

Oil portrait of a bearded man in green tones.

Landscape

A lot of my landscape work is painted outdoors, alla prima, in one sitting.

Landscape painting with a path in green and gold.

Florals

Still life painted from life, with colour doing the work.

Daffodils in a clear glass vase.

Still life

Studies of familiar objects, observed closely.

Pear still life in red and gold.

Mixed media

Mixed media florals in vases.

Mixed media florals in vases.

How I work

Big shapes, honest values, colour that carries the feeling.

I studied animation and illustration, which taught me to build a picture from structure outward rather than detail inward. Everything since then — two decades of mentors, gallery shows, and a lot of ruined panels — has been about learning what to leave out.

A lot of my landscape work is painted outdoors, alla prima, in one sitting. The figures and portraits happen in the studio, usually over several sessions, and usually with at least one full repaint.

Read more about my background
Clothed woman in a red top against a blue ground.

Available work & commissions

Tell me which piece caught you.

I'll send dimensions, price, and a photo in better light than a website gives you. If nothing here is quite it, I take commissions for portraits, figures, and landscapes too — describe what you're picturing.

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