another of our clients is Queen Square Dental Clinic in Bristol who bought a 38×90 inch seascape painting shown below. It is on a large wall in a very impressive waiting room and looks terrific and It makes a real change to see something like that in a waiting room instead of endless oral health posters and tatty magazines.

Storm 38×90 inches 2003

possibly this will be the last painting I finish this year.

Wild Flowers At Sunset 34×38 inches 2008

Some more historical info here about our clients. In 2005 I became involved with Art International Nassau, curated and organised by HH Princess Azamat Guirey. Unfortunately I could not travel to attend the private view so I contented myself with having 4 large artworks on show during the exhibition. The show was a great success 3 out of the 4 paintings I sent were purchased. This one was bought by HH Princess Azamat Gyirey.

Summer Sea Gwithian 38×90 inches 2005

I thought it might be interesting to show where some of our artworks end up. We supply artworks to galleries for exhibitions and sell to private individuals Boutique hotels and corporate spaces and museums. So this will become an archive of our clients.

Here’s some work that went to Boskerris Hotel in St. Ives at the beginning of this year. It also hopefully will give you an idea of how our artworks look in various places.

Here are some paintings I have recently finished. The painting ‘Agapanthus august storm’ continues my fascination with the Agapanthus dunes on Tresco. The other two form the beginnings of two new series, ‘Fun in the sun’ is the first of a series of paintings of children playing on the beach and ‘Bluebells near Zennor’ begins a series about the wild flowers that bloom along the Cornish coast.

 Agapanthus August Storm              Bluebells Near Zennor                     Fun In The Sun Tresco

Still continuing the March Storm series here are two large scale works that have been on the go since March this year. They are slightly smaller and a tad longer in proportion than the 38×90 inch paintings. I really like working on this format and this size of canvas.

       ‘Storm Bryher March 2008′ 28×72 inches                       ‘Storm Bryher’ 28×72 inches

Both paintings are oil on canvas but also have soil and sand mixed in with the paint. I also make my own painting tools with which to apply the paint. To be honest I find brushes to regular to boring and working on this scale, paint brushes because of my methods do not last very long and they do not seem to allow the same amount of variation in mark making that I can achieve with my own tools. So what I use is 4mm ply in various rectilinear sizes with rounded and bevalled edges which I carefully shape and use to apply large quantities of paint to the canvas or board. It really is very exciting and fun to work this way and for me it allows the texture to build and to acquire that wildness of natural growth.

I have just become aware of some connection issues with the web site. My e mail has not been working properly and then my internet provider went down as well.

I have also had a customer experience some problems when in putting information on the on line order forms.

Everything seems to be back up and working properly but please let me know if you come across any problems. Either email me doms598@aol.com or telephone 01736 350692 mobile 07787372241, if you have any questions at all about on line ordering. If you would rather speak to me in person please do so, and remember to any UK address I am always willing to bring any particular artwork for you to view in your home before finalising a sale. 

Now that there is quite a lot of current information on the web site, and for those of you interested I thought I would include my CV. Problem is, I always have trouble making CV’s interesting as you have to make them as concise  but as interesting as possible to get them noticed two properties that are often incompatible. So I will try something a bit different a kind of rambling CV that gives an idea of what artworks and projects I have been involved with over the years including thumbnails and thoughts. Think of it as a kind of retrospective CV. It’s the kind of CV I would like to send out but it would be to long. However as this is my web site and I’m not applying for anything I can do as I please So if you are interested click on ‘about me’ page and scrole down. It’ll take a while to put everything on so be patient and keep popping back.

Well it has just started snowing down here in Cornwall. It’s wet snow but snow, so I’m on my way out with a sketchbook to do some drawing and I may have some images to show later today. What fun…..

Well I have done some drawings but they are a bit wet. Although I did managed to finish another Sea and Snow painting.

‘Sea and Snow 3′ 38×42 inches 

I decided to have a very quick visit up to Scotland to catch the first snowfall of 2008. One of my favourite subjects is Sea and Snow and we don’t get a lot of that in Cornwall. There is something about the way the light is refracted and bounced around through the snow and clouds and of the water, and it’s very exciting. So anyway a few paintings have found homes this month so I thought I had better put some more work on show.

   Sea and Snow 30×36 inches           Sea and Snow 2 30×36 inches

Also I have had one or two enquiries about deliveries over christmas. So just a quick word about that. I am able to arrange delivery of workto anywhere in the UK up until the 24th December and then I will be taking some time out until 7th January.

And some more local artworks are available. I will be putting larger works on in the next two weeks as well. 

Piper’s Hole Tresco 34×40 inches.     Foam Gwithian 30×36 inches.    Portheras Cove 34×40 inches.