Exhibitions

Still life study of three purple plums

Head study in charcoal and pastel

Head study

Degas balerina was rejected by the Paris Salon because she was too ugly! Later shown at the Salon de refuses she has become an iconic beauty. This homage is intended to question perceptions of beauty. What does the viewer think?

Jacqueline is a fellow artist and friend, drawn from life in my studio she was very much out of her comfort zone and i was also aware i was making a portrait of a fabulous artist known as an expert figurative painter.

Made after visiting the Academia, Florence. Is he ugly or beautiful? His tattoo’s drawn in collograph are inspired by a William Blake Etching

This is a charcoal drawing on card. It is professionally framed in a black ash wood frame, glazed with ‘Art Glass’.

This is a figure drawing of a seated female nude. It is professionally framed in a black ash wood frame, mounted with warm white card.

‘Two Pine Needles’ is one of my earliest works with ink on paper. I was trying to discover the artistic possibilities of the traditional ink rubbing technique. The pine needles become two actors on the pavement in a park in Tainan, Taiwan.

Chalk drawing of poor soul who died in Mendip Hospital.

Pastel pencil on Canson paper. Inspired by a landscape painted by a Qing dynasty Chinese landscape artist called Wang Jian (1598-1677). The original work is exhibited at the Shanghai Museum, it is associated with a poem by Yan Wei of the Tang dynasty (618–907) that reads: “Spring water flows freely to the willow pond. Sun…

Pastel pencil on Canson paper

Pastel pencil on Canson paper