Work in Progress - Lands End Bridge.

Just started work on some new paintings which i'm a little bit excited about! So throughout the whole series of paintings that i'm doing, i will be documenting their progress as they move along to completion. This first one is of a rickety old rope bridge that goes over the sea and cliffs down at Lands End. i've been working on the paintings with Spray Paint, acrylic and Posca Pens. Not finished yet, but there will be more photos as it progresses!

House OF Flying Dragons!

Finally, after the British weather decided to sort itself out, i managed to finish this mammoth project that i have been working on! After an epic 18 day spell of painting, the 'House Of Flying Dragons' has been completed!

It's been a gruelling battle against the elements, which also became a mental and physical battle to bring the project to an end. This has probably been the biggest job i have ever worked on by myself!

I love working on a large scale, but this has to be the largest that i have worked on! It was quite a daunting prospect at the start, but as with everything, once you throw yourself into a project it soon takes on a life of it's own and you kind of get taken along for the ride!

It was an amazing experience in the end, and i couldn't ask for a better location to work on a project like this. I'm hoping to produce some paintings based on the photos that i took over the 18 days of the surrounding landscape!

So now it's back to reality, and packing everything up in my studio to move to a new one! It's now the 3rd time in 2 years that i've moved, and hopefully won't be doing it for a while! So once i'm settled into the new place, i'll hopefully be able to crack on with some new paintings!

I've got a few more large scale projects in the pipeline, so any work i can get done inbetween these will be a bonus. I'll keep you posted on my movements! In a bit!

Getting Married In New York!

Not me! I'm not getting married! I did this piece of work for my friends Sue and Phil from Derby, who are getting married in New York in May! Lucky buggers really, but i can't make it to the ceremony so i did them this for their wedding invitation. They're having a party back in Derby in June, so i'm going to that. I used to go to Uni there, and used to live with Sue who was on my Fine Art degree too! Really enjoyed doing this, and a bit of a departure for me too. Made with spray paint, acrylic paint and Posca pen on A3 paper.

New Work

Just starting to sort out a load of new work at the moment. Got loads of photos to sift through as source material, and i've just started making some sketches of what i want to do.

Here's one of the first finished sketches of a view of Lands End, from just above the rope bridge that's there. It's just a basic idea at the moment of how i want these landscapes to look. i want some of them to look quite minimal with some silhouetted shapes thrown in!

This sketch was created using spray paint and Posca pen on A3 paper.

Take Me Away From The Wind And The Rain.

Finally got this painting finished the other week, it had been sitting in the studio nearly finished for a while! Got it finished in time to put into Newlyn Gallery's Art Sale For Haiti exhibition.

I think the sale raised about £8000 in total, which all went to help the people of Haiti.

This painting was created using spray paint, acrylic paint and Posca pens on canvas.

Some Old Bits!

These are some old bits of work that i've only really just got photographed properly! They were originally designs for the Jack's Cow project that i worked on last year.

These were the original designs that i had to submit to Newquay Airport to see if i was on the same wavelength as them!

In the end, i used the first image on one side of the cow, and another image of St. Michael's Mount for the other side.

These originals were made using Posca Pen and Acrylic Paint on A1 paper, which have since been mounted ready to be framed.

I didn't get a decent photo of the one of St. Michael's Mount, as i sold it to Andy and Rachael from the Bakehouse in Penzance!