On Thursday night I attended my Kiaikido martial arts club were I have been practising for a number of years and found it surprisingly full,   almost all the members were there and the Senseis were both wearing there white ceremonial Hakomas…….something was a foot. We did an hour of aikido …..then our [...]

I heard on the news this morning that Edvard Munch’s SCREAM has just sold for £106,000,000 millions…good for him! I thought,  at this point,  that my painting of his cat  THE MEOW should be brought forward and offered to the market place at a slightly reduced price……..any offers?   This painting, if not sold before, [...]

I have just added these paintings to the folios in The Selborne Gallery for our Spring Show. They are little studies I did while out photographing sheep and their newly born lambs. They are sketches for up coming paintings and it’s a pity to throw them away so I have mounted them and put them [...]

New Show and new paintings….at The Selborne Gallery in Hampshire UK   GU34  3JQ    14th April – 20th June come and visit us. RAINBOW SHEEP:  Low sun in the afternoon hitting the sheep and the buildings behind a wonderful light…you have to paint fast as that particular light doesn’t last….so had to finish this [...]

Our daughter-in-law Sue Goffe ( wife of Tim ) has just won a BAFTA for “short animation-film” ” A morning walk”  made at her company Studio AKA. We were congratulating her on it when she said” You know it’s our third BAFTA don’t you?” well I’m not sure we did….I remember the last one…I think [...]

On 4th February at The Selborne Gallery (GU34 3JQ),  The Hampshire Artists Co-Operative start our Winter Show for 2012. We had the month of January off as we do every year to hibernate and re-assess and create new work for the New Year. I’ve put together the paintings I will be showing at the gallery [...]

I have some of my paintings in an exhibition in the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery. The exhibition is  called Pastures New and  are paintings of cows and sheep…so I hope I fit into it perfectly. if you would like to visit it….. The exhibition is on from 9th January – 7th February 2012 …..you can find [...]

We were clearing out the garage the other day to make room for my new studio. We had bought a garden shed the same size as the garage so all the junk we had gathered over the years would fit into it. Even though we had filled six skips with rubbish,  the junk from the [...]

The Christmas Exhibition at the Selborne Gallery ( GU34 3JQ )  will end on 30th December. These are some of the paintings I am exhibiting…. This one is called HOMEWARD BOUND a little seascape of a yacht coming home after a day’s sailing. The evening sky was the main reason for painting this one and [...]

Spent today at our gallery in Selborne in Hampshire GU34 3JQ to be exact….I’ve been there today as it is my turn to look after it ….I open up at 11 am and stay there until 5 pm answering the telephone,  welcoming customers, showing them around the gallery and hopefully selling them a painting, a [...]