look for the those colours in the British winter landscape

A landscape inspired by the Easter sunlight above the River Crouch in North Fambridge, Essex. Colours inspired by the Blackthorn (Sloe) bushes in Spring. Spot Venus in the sky, along with the giant Easter Egg!

Capturing the journey from Caracas to Morrocoy and back whilst visiting Venuzuela. An early sketch that I pondered over for the whole journey. I had to determine just how to capture the elements over a fairly vast area. Could do with sharpening but has enough there to spark my memory of the journey. March 2011.

at Mrytos Beach in Kefalonia. Titled 'Learning Greece' such because as I painted this on the beach I felt I had a sense of where the national flag of Greece was inspired from. I have no idea whether this is true, but the colours of an incredibly blue sea and the sky painted in an abstract manor seemed to invoke the flag, or was it just my subconsious?

This painting is not so much about the detail but just capturing enough elements in to invoke a memory of this charming port. I started painting this from the holiday accommodation on the hill so the shapes and colours of the boats I felt had to invoke the wasps that were attacking us at breakfast!

Antisamos, the Hills, the Cove, the Beach the wall of fish before you hit the deep blue sea

A view from.... a southerly hamlet of Akrotiri or thereabouts. I really felt the movement in the landscape caused by the earthquake in the 50's. There was a strange tension in the settled forms akin to a jigsaw whose individual pieces had not quite been put back in their rightful places. Never-the-less interesting and quite beautiful. In the painting a local reed plant provides the tension within the landscape.

A revisit of a trek within The Ganesh Himal Region in Nepal in 1986. The landscape being so changeable as you climb and descend and climb again, it is difficult to portray everything. Here are just a few pointers: Trisuli River to bottom, Gatlang Valley middle including trepidatious pedestrian suspension bridge, and our destination Paldor Peak top right. And all the time and all around you those incredibly inquisitive eyes watching you as those the aliens have landed, understandably.

Huge boulders in the river Trisuli after descending the foothills through late summer. We had all the seasons represented in the climatic conditions and flora in a couple of days on descending from the base camp of Paldor.

oh those eyes!