Gallery
Some are more realistic paintings and some are looser. I find it depends on how I feel about the subject at the time. I hope you enjoy looking through them.
Oil Paintings
‘HMS Montrose Returning Home’
Oil painting ~ Sold
Painted as a present for a friend who served on HMS Montrose. Here she is ‘returning home’, steaming into Plymouth Sound, past Drake’s Island.
‘Vigilant’ at Topsham Quay
Oil on Canvas Board ~ 30 x 40 cm
Along the Topsham Shore
Sailing Barge ‘Vigilant’ (Official No. 116176, 73 tons) being restored at Topsham Quay.
‘Bill – Jigging for mackerel’
Oil on Canvas ~ 50 x 70 in ~ Not for sale
Bill Painting
‘Clyde’
Oil on canvas

Oil painting commission of ‘Clyde’.
Clyde has a ‘wall’ eye, which looks slightly odd, but is part of who he is.
(Normally a horse has a dark brown eye, but Clyde’s is pale blue. Because of this, he wasn’t wanted until his present owner had him. He’s a lovely horse!)
‘Exmoor, Heather and Stag’
Oil on Canvas ~ 40 x 40 cm ~ Sold
Blog Post
‘Across the Exe’
Oil on canvas board

‘Roxy’
Oil on canvas board ~ 30 x 40 in ~ Sold
Roxy Post
‘Pulled up at Restronguet’
Oil on canvas board

‘Exe Sunset’
Oil on canvas board
Exe Sunset Post
Watercolour Paintings
‘Boats drawn up at Gweek’
Watercolour & Pencil

‘Snowy Lanyon Quoit’
Watercolour ~ Sold
Lanyon Quoit, a Neolithic dolmen in Cornwall. With Ding Dong Engine House on the hill in the background.
‘Failing light at Topsham’
Watercolour & Ink ~ A4 ~ Sold
Failing Light on the Exe Post
‘Mevagissey Inner Harbour’
Watercolour and Pen ~ A4
Mevagissey Harbour Post
‘Evening Light at Praa’
Watercolour and Pen ~ A4, Sold
Rocks at Praa Sands Post
‘Last light at Exmouth’
Watercolour and Pen ~ A4 ~ Not for sale
Last light at Exmouth Post
In the past, I have enjoyed stretching my own canvas. It’s a bit of a fiddle having to size the canvas, before priming with rabbit hide glue. My wife loves me heating that up upon the oven! However, it puts you in touch with artists of old. However, each canvas has its own character and is quite different from shop-bought Pre-stretched canvas.
The oil paints that I use are the Winsor & Newton Artist range. As well as Michael Harding handmade oil paints, which are lovely to use.
I love the immediacy of watercolour painting. Again I use Winsor & Newton Artist paints. I like hot and cold pressed papers and have lately been using Clairefontaine papers in a block. Which I find very convenient.
You can’t beat a good sable brush for watercolour painting. I tend to go for round ones.
However, for oil painting, a mix of round and flat brushes works well for me.
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