Birdlip Mirror 3
Galleries The Painting Gallery The Paintings Gallery represents various aspects of my output, including landscapes, still lives, the figure and images inspired by memory, myths and stories. Most are for sale and they can be packaged and sent to your home for a small additional charge. Oil on canvas 30 x 25 x 1.5 cm […]
Falesia 4
Galleries The Painting Gallery The Paintings Gallery represents various aspects of my output, including landscapes, still lives, the figure and images inspired by memory, myths and stories. Most are for sale and they can be packaged and sent to your home for a small additional charge. Oil on canvas 70 x 100 x 4 cm […]
2024 and all that …
It has been a year of group exhibitions and I have opened my studio, to the public, for the first time ever. Some exhibitions were better than others and Open Studios was a bit frightening, but we have got to the end of the year, with dear friends and artistic colleagues and had some laughs […]
Painting in Portugal
We were lucky enough to spend two months, this winter in Vilamoura, Portugal. Before we left, some friends said things like, that’s a long time, what will you do all day? They clearly don’t know us. Loretta and I love to visit new places, to sit and watch the world go by, to walk for […]
Gloucester Contemporary Artists
There have been some exciting developments in Gloucester, over the past six months. What began as a brief conversation between myself and another Gloucester artist, moved on to a few of us meeting in our local community centre and has now become a fully fledged art organisation. I give you Gloucester Contemporary Artists. We now […]
5 Art lessons from Paul Klee
If you have ever attended one of my watercolour classes, or chatted to me about art, you will know that I am a big fan of Paul Klee, as an artist and a teacher. Below are just a few of his classes from the Bauhaus. 5 Art Lessons from Bauhaus Master Paul Klee | Artsy […]
Blow Winds And Crack Your Cheeks
“Blow winds and crack your cheeks” – Peter Postlethwaite as King Lear. Oil on canvas, by Paul McKee Acquired by Warrington Museum and Art Gallery. It is always gratifying when one of your works of art finds a good home. This is especially true when it ends up in a public collection and even more […]
The Leaving of Liverpool
MS Devonia – my first ship. An old troop carrier, converted for educational cruising. Aboard Devonia – I’m the one who thinks he’s captain … “Fare thee well to Princess Landing Stage, River Mersey fare thee well……..” I must have sung that song about sailing away from my home town a thousand times. Loretta and […]
Painting flowers in watercolour
This is another recovered blog, from those lost when my website was updated I hope you find the stages I go through, in order to make a watercolour, interesting and informative. Recently I’ve been playing around with watercolours, inspired, as ever, by a vase full of flowers. I love just looking and trying to capture […]
Cheltenham Group of Artists
I’m not a very clubable person and I have avoided membership of art societies over the years. However, having seen exhibitions by the Cheltenham Group of Artists over a seventeen year period, it was clear that this group, with a history dating back to the early years of the Twentieth Century, was a cut above […]