5th September - 6th September 2026
ABC Art Trail, Beeston.
Venue J.
Yellow Wood Cafe, Beeston.
5th September - 6th September 2026
Yellow Wood Cafe, Beeston.
Paintings on Show
I will be showing several new paintings and sketches upstairs in the Yellow Wood Cafe at 42 Chilwell Street in Chilwell on the 5th and 6th September 2026.
This year it isn't just people, but places and flowers.
This is the first public showing of my latest portrait of the Beeston violin maker Toby Jepp, and a selection of sketches and paintings from Baslow and Curbar Edge in Derbyshire.
There will be three portraits of flowers available. The bunch of tulips was featured in Artist and Illustrator's magazine as a step by step guide. The portrait of the dead roses is called 'February 15th', it is the sister painting to my painting 'Valentine's Day is Over'.
These four charcoal sketches are of rocks at Curbar Edge in Derbyshire.
Nasim Luczaq is an artist model that I have been painting for six years. Each of these portraits is of her.
I am slowly painting a series of portraits of 'makers'. On the left is Toby Jepp, who's violin making workshop is located just down the road from Yellow Wood. The other portrait is of an old friend, and blacksmith, Richard Maynard. These portraits are not for sale.
These are two pen and ink drawings that I have had hanging about for a bit. Make me an offer.
Three pen and ink paintings on watercolour paper of rocks at Curbar Edge and Baslow Edge in Derbyshre.
Two oil paintings of rocks and one water colour. The left painting is from Curbar Edge in Derbyshire, the middle is Luds Church near Leek. I do not like the water colour painting, if you read this and you come to me and say "I hear you hate your water colour painting" I will give it to you, unless somebody has bought it.
I walked Wollaton Park one sunny spring and took lots of photos to paint from. These are three of the paintings.
This portrait of the sun through the boughs of a forest of trees came about by happy accident. I painted the painting and then wiped off the paint. What remained I really loved, so I worked that into the final work. This process can never be repeated.
This is a portrait of my mother. I am particularly pleased with the hands and the beads.
This painting is called "The Chip Shop". It is painted from a photograph I took when on holiday in Norfolk.