works on paper
Even though I showed a drawing on my last post, that wasn’t the first piece of art I did in 2025. This is the first. Again inspired by The Twilight Zone, this one was a return to using ink, which I love drawing with and missed greatly.
Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet (2025) Ink on Paper.
Another sketch from my dancer period. I loved this image and eventually made a large scale oil painting from it.
I think this came from 2009 when I had a period of Dance paintings. I particularly enjoyed painting/sketching tango dancers and the Lindy Hop. Personally I can’t dance to save my life. I drifted away from these after a short while but I remember enjoying them. In fact one of my first sales came from this period.
A brief experiment in collage from 2014. Wish I’d have kept it going. I liked the humour that was emerging from them.
Another nude study in watercolour dating from about 2009.
A nude study from 2009 rendered in watercolour. Makes me want to find a life drawing group….
Three watercolour sketches from 2007 I did investigating the theme of movement for a City and Guilds Oil painting course I was studying at the time. It ended up forming the basis of a large oil painting composition using basketball players from the subject matter. The painting no longer exists sadly, and I can’t recall right now if I still have an image of it, but to be honest, I have a feeling over the years that I preferred the loose and spontaneous splashes of colour in the rough and ready sketches. They were the keepers.
A charcoal and chalk sketch from 2014 that eventually became a painting called Strong As I Am from my Altered States series which you can see in the Earlier Works section of my website.
