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The Early Years

1965 - 1975

In which I discovered London's great public art galleries and pressed my nose against windows in Cork Street.

A decade in which I learned to draw at evening classes and summer school at the City of Guids Art College in Kennington, experimented with various media and sold my first works for a pittance to buy more paint.

Various Early Influences/some of the paintings I fell in love with when in my late teens I first discovered the London galleries and their amazing collections

One of the most powerful experiences of my life was when I first came face to face with this painting at the Courtauld Institute in London in the 1960's. I was transfixed. It is always with me somewhere in my mind when I am painting.

So quietly honest

I began wanting to paint portraits after seeing this painting, which I painstakingly copied several times before starting to paint directly from the model

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

Low, rich, bleeding colour that stays in the senses

It was the light that stirred devotion

& Some of My Very Early Works (youthful pre-occupation with love & romance)

oil on stretched canvas

oil on canvas board

Ink - pen and wash (behind glass)

oil on stretched canvas

mixed media on stretched canvas

oil on stretched canvas

mixed media on stretched canvas

The Early Years​

1965 - 1975

Various Early Influences/some of the paintings I fell in love with when in my late teens I first discovered the London galleries and their amazing collections

& Some of My Very Early Works (youthful pre-occupation with love & romance)

The Early Years