Portrait study

Of my collector and art curator, Ms X, (still very much a work in progress,) oil on linen canvas, 24 … More

Just started drawing…

…a new portrait, in pencil and oil colour on linen canvas

Need a few days off from this piece… need to come back to it with refreshed eyes… so, still a work-in-progress

Seated woman in blue, posing

Free painting based on a rapidly made sketch, probably unfinished… but anyway can’t work on it because the paint is … More

I have no idea [WIP] forms in space?

Something taking shape… Just making marks with charcoal and erasing them with a feather and seeing what happens… Fixed with … More

Common Irish ash [update]

Update: more work done on this including work en plein air until the wind decided against it! Additional media used: … More

View of St. Catherine’s church, Fenagh, with a stormy sky, WIP

This is merely an underpainting, an initial covering of the support which is, in this particular case, white Arches oil … More

Dazzling December sunlight, neglected field, Ireland [WIP]

In the Paintorealist style, oil on canvas, 32 x 28″, Dec 3 2019

The oldest profession (WIP)

Coloured pencils and turpentine on A3 paper, subsequently pixellated and colours simplified… Oct 24 2019 Done after an image on … More

Let the painting begin! [WIP] (A portrait of the artist Hitomi Tanaka)

N.B. This is merely a preliminary underpainting to the oil painting proper, i.e., it is NOT the finished work. Pen … More