For the past few years I've been focusing on my artwork with a view to experimenting, learning and hopefully improving my technique while taking inspiration from fellow artists and searching for my own particular style that I'm comfortable with. Looking back, I'm genuinely amazed and proud of the improvements I've made in myself and while I'm by no means at the end of the learning curve, I'm certainly along a path that I'm happy to be taking. I'll never be (and have never cla

I decide years ago that I much preferred drawing in monochrome, balancing the tones and textures while playing with light and shadow, but having been inspired by the architecture of the beautiful city of Prague from a recent visit, I realised that some places need colour. Prague is a very colourful city with painted facades, red roofs, copper green spires and of course, the red trams trundling along cobbled streets. This latest pencil drawing is a mix of colour pencils with i

A Roman holiday in Rome inspiring two original artworks of the Forum and the Temple of Hercules which are available to purchase.

A set of three art prints based on C V Cavafy's poem Ithaka based on the epic Odyssey but depicting the journey of life,

A description of the inspiration behind a pen and ink drawing of a forest with fantasy overtones.

A description of the inspiration behind a pen and ink artwork drawing of european village architecture from the alps to the Italian coast.

Fine art prints of the towns of Keswick and Ambleside in the Lake District, Cumbria available for purchase.

For the past 10 years, I have been a permanent artist displaying and selling artwork at the Cherrydidi galleries in both Keswick and...

Pen art drawing of a woman walking by a canal in Venice in rain carrying an umbrella.

A mixed media drawing of the great outdoors with bears approaching a waterfall with mountains behind.