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Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage is over for another year. It was a great success. Saturday was very busy, Sunday not so busy. I think visitors were put off by the weather forecast, but the rain and wind held off until Monday. Thank you to everyone who took the time to visit, chat and buy something.

I am in the process of updating my website to include works which were not sold at the Festival, but please bear with me. Autumn is a busy time of year with my commitment to Inktober for Cancer Research UK and one or two commissions for Christmas.

I will be back next year and I will be back at Grimes Nook, High Barrass.

My first book of drawings has proved to be very popular, but there are still lots of copies if anyone would like a copy. Please get in touch through my contact page or via my Etsy account once I have updated that.

I love to draw the industrial and urban landscape of the North embedded in some of the best countryside in England.

I am a trained architectural technician. I use my understanding of how buildings work and construction drawing techniques to inform my work in the urban environment.

I strongly believe in leaving space in a painting. I find drawing every leaf on every tree or even, every tree isn’t necessary, it’s not about documenting everything in front of you. I like to give the viewer the opportunity to fill in the blanks for themselves and engage with the painting.

I have original art, original prints and giclee prints for sale at prices to suit all pockets. As usual, I have been working on smaller pieces as an easily affordable way of owning original art . However, I have been producing larger pieces and the original prints are all available too. Please have a look round and use my enquiry tab if you would like to make a purchase, discuss a commission or arrange a workshop.

I’m working with the wonderful people at Deep Deep Light to produce a curated palette of watercolours. Working together I gave them a brief of the theoretical colours I like to use in my regular palette. They have taken my brief and selected colours from their range. They gave me some options too. I’m currently making my final selections. They very kindly provided a series of dot cards of my split primaries, secondaries and ancillary colours to give to other artists at Staithes Festival.