Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Doors

This painting has been sold

Oil on hardboard 8" x 8"

Remember the pop group in the 60s? Jim Morrison and The Doors? No, of course, I don't suppose most of you do. Well to be honest I don't remember them all that well myself, not because I wasn't a grown up person then, because I was :-) but I spent most of the 60s washing nappies and wiping noses :-). I read on Wikipedia however that the group still sells a million albums annually which is amazing isn't it? We have Leonard Cohen in Manchester soon but I don't think I'll go - can't hear so good, but I used to love his stuff. Anyway, 2 yellow doors in Stalybridge with the varnish coming off them. That particular place has been shut up for ages. I don't know what it was but it was kind of relaxing to paint.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Closed for business

This painting has been sold

Oil on hardboard 8" x 8"

I am coming to realise how much I like painting shops, especially when they have filtered sunlight on their facades like this. I also prefer painting them when they are closed. You can see them better that way.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Fire on the moors

This painting has been sold


Oil on hardboard 8" x 8"

Occasionally in the summer months when the bracken is very dry we sometimes get a fire on the moors overlooking the town. This one took place in 2006 and was quite a big one for us, posing a bit of a threat to the poeople living in the foothills.