Last summer I experimented by taking my work to various events in order to escape the tyranny of Art Galleries.  I have had some experience

This is going to be an interesting year! My relationship with the Tank Museum is growing and I hope to be visiting at least twice

Galleries can be off-putting places. The prices are often overwhelming and the art either challenging or bewilderingly disappointing. I have always found them hard to

Edinburgh Napier University Conference 26th August This August I was invited to join a discussion at the Edinburgh Napier University conference on the Armed forces

Echoes of History is Essex’s answer to the Chalk Valley history festival. It is obviously not on the same scale yet as at 2024, but

Learning an old craft a’new. During renovations on my cottage, first built when George III was a young man, I have had to learn to

As Colchester burnt under the rage of Boudica in 60AD it in practice lost its Capital City status. After reconstruction it became a Colonia, a

After a year of fascinating work with the Army creating cartoons and oil paintings for all kinds of projects operational and non-operational, I am back

It is with great joy I can report that the Army has become rather addicted to my work, and this time not my oil painting

The Sharp Shooters (Kent and county of London Yeomanry) have a museum at Hever Castle. The up to date museum is camouflaged into the bushes

Painting for the Army Deep in the heart of Eight Ash Green, very close to Essex Yeomanry Roundabout, near Stanway, hidden by silver birch trees,

From historic landscape to Historic Portrait, New Canvas Christmas and new year were fairly low key this year but mercifully free of lockdown misery. In

This is the third time I have built my website, this time with ‘It’seeze’. I have tried to keep the basic lay out the same,

After such a long time locked up, my Brigade decided to throw a party. The Mess committee voted for the exotic theme of Indian Summer,

Solo Show In Maldon 7th-27th July. Oil paintings of the finest and most historic parts of North Essex. Just before the virus kicked off, I

My year of 2020, The battle to keep working throughout. One must find what one can from the sling stones of life and improvise to