With time on my hands in lock down, and possibly as a reaction to the general sense of fear, I decided to try building a medieval helmet. I had some scrap copper but the metal working equipment had to be improvised by trail and error. It certainly took my mind off things! My inspiration came […]

Each month has a single day drawn in the same location. Because it’s an ongoing project, I hope each written story will help make more sense of the rough first oil sketches below. December – late afternoon The day draws to an end beneath a dull blanket of low cloud. Ewes hunker down in the […]

This is a ongoing project to depict the seasonal life of one location over the course of one year. Primarily it will illustrate one day from each month of 2018 in a set of twelve oil paintings. But I also intend making smaller studies, drawings and prints to go with them. And to share my […]