Own work: Covehithe Church

     My latest collage; 'Covehithe Church' on the coast of Suffolk. A vast church that was partially demolished in the end of the 17th century as surplus to requirements, and a smaller, much smaller church erected within the ruins. A rather M R James sort of place. 22cms x 10.4 cms on watercolour paper.

Own work: collage

     A collage!  It's been a while since I made one of these.  Not sure as to the title as yet.  Anyway 12 x 19cms, 'home-made' marbled paper and gouache on watercolour paper.

Own work: Birthday card

     Just thought I'd share with you this birthday card I recently made for a family member. My first piece of creativity for months.

Own work: Lettering

     The final one of an occasional series of the letters I've done to mark family birthdays.

Own work: Lettering

     Another one in my series of lettering for family members to celebrate their birthdays. Collage and pencil crayon on 120 gsm cartridge paper.

Own work: The Sardis Independent Chapel

     Another new work for you.  The Sardis Independent Chapel, Ystradgynlais, Breconshire. Ystradgynlais, which is visually nearly all Victorian and later, is oddly enough situated south of the Brecon Beacons towards the head of the Tawe valley. So sort of industrial South Wales, really. Not the sort of place one would automatically associate with deeply rural Breconshire. The chapel, perhaps the grandest in the town, dates from the 1860s and is a far more dominant presence in the streetscape than the retiring parish church. As you can see from the collage it is a rather odd building with a number of mannerisms to the classical façade: the bases and capitals of the eight Doric pilasters, (which are missing both their pads, or orli, and abaci), are continuous between adjoining pilasters, and the entablature is missing most of its cornice.

     It is now closed. Anyway, this is a mixed-media collage roughly 30 x 37cms on watercolour board.

Own work: collage

     My latest collage,version 1. 15 x 23 cms mixed media of 300gsm watercolour paper.

Own work: Collage

     I have a new collage to share with you. Finished just a few minutes ago. 22.7 x 25.2 cms on 300 gsm watercolour paper.

Own work: Bethania Chapel

     A busy few days: Sunday - 'Stir-up Sunday' - was spent making a Christmas cake and yesterday a trip to that attractive market town of Ledbury to meet the brother. We stopped off in Monmouth on the way home. A return visit for me, finding I had forgotten much since that previous visit. The place is rather attractive, and busy. A return visit is a must. Today I managed to finish my latest collage, another, small, depiction of the Bethania Chapel, Morriston, Swansea.

Exhibition and Latest Collage

     My first solo exhibition (my first exhibition in Wales too!) is fast approaching!  It will be from 20.09.19 - 26.09.19 at Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire.  For further details visit: www.aberglasney.org  It is very exciting and beginning to get just a little nerve-wracking.

     In the meantime here is the collage I finished a few minutes ago. It alas has no title as yet; I was thinking of something on the lines of 'Victorian tourist in Rome' or some such. 19x25cms mixedmedia on 300gsm watercolour paper.

Own work: Collage

      My latest collage - 23.4 x 30.0 cms, mixed media.

Own work: Latest Collage

     Finally completed my latest collage, and a new direction for me - my first use of perspective.  otherwise everything essentially remains the same: mixed media collage (including handmade marbled paper) on watercolour board.

Own work: collage

     My latest finished collage, as yet without a title: 16.9 x 14.4 cms on 300 gsm watercolour paper, mixed media including hard-marbled paper.

Own work: new collage

     My latest collage: 23 x 13.5 cms on 300 gsm using 'handmade' marbled paper and newsprint, watercolour, gouache and oil pastel.

Own work: Foliate Head

     I completed a new collage on Saturday; a Foliate Head, breaking new ground for me with use of coloured ink in the background.

Own work: Another Collage

     The second of my recent experiments with collage.:  ink, watercolour and wax pastel background, 'homemade' marbled paper, news print and magazine photos, watercolour paper (trees).

Own work: Collage

     I've been experimenting with collage again in the last few weeks, using news print to suggest masonry.  Not entirely sure that the resulting image has been entirely successful....

Own work: Collage

     Spurred on by the work of three artists I really admire, John Piper, Mark Hearld and Ed Kluz I've recently returned to the medium of collage, exploring the 'folly in the wood' of an early watercolour and that haunts my sketchbooks.  I'm quite happy with the result.