About MeMy paintings have had a major influence in my life over the past fifty years. They were the prime mover in producing the Ostreme Pageant and operetta, ‘The Bells of Santiago.’ This led a collection of fifty paintings held in Swansea, depicting the history of its shipping and copper barques.
Many of my paintings are seascapes, early works were in oil, but the majority of my work is acrylic and nowadays watercolour. Being largely self-taught my career was with BP, I took my sketch books everywhere I went during the adventures of North Sea Oil and Gas Fields. I have studies of every oil and gas field in Abu Dhabi and neighbouring countries, I love the peace and tranquillity of the desert. I have developed a rapid method of sketching which observers find extraordinary as it captures the essence of a landscape within a minute. We have moved to Lymington in Hampshire where I am building a new studio. Lymington is a beautiful port where there is a host of marine subjects and shipyards and the Solent coastal paths. I am particularly influenced by the work of Joseph Zbukvic, an amazing Australian watercolour artist. While the studio is being built I am learning to animate using Reallusion's iclone 7. It's a whole new world. My first effort is an Emergency Response Exercise Shamal. A shamal is a sand storm where the whole sky goes black at it's worst you literally cannot see the end of your outstretched hand. I lecture in the Middle East and will use the animation during my 4 day course in Dubai and Doha later this year. I will make the animations free for anyone training in Emergency Response. The image opposite is from the exercise. I hope to get comments or stories on the exercises I have, I will give a watercolour painting for the best comment /story I receive each month. I would love to animate the story of the seascape of the ship Zeta shown at the Mumbles in 1863 I have an epic 120 page script. |
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