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Beyond The Ruins, Watercolour on paper now available as a fine art print. The route here lies on a line from Colne and Lancashire in one direction and Haworth and the Bronte Moors in another. It was a freezing cold day, but a sunny one, and I was out looking for subject material to paint and exploring the ruins of Sunny Bank. One of my favourite places is out in the hills above Hebden Bridge, a market town set deep in the Calder Valley of West Yorkshire. Hebden Bridge is a ha

This is a typical example of how I achieve my compositions. The radar is always switched on for combinations of design elements, such as ...

An overview and description of my mountain painting, Weather Coming In

Orange, Pisa. Acrylic on paper 19 x 28cm approx In this #painting I wanted to pull the #design together through the use of strong connected #colour. The car and background building were already similar in hue, so I didn't have much to do in terms of alteration, but it's a good example of being switched on for #composition when out and about. We were actually dragging large suitcases across the rattling streets of #Pisa, when I noticed the colour of the car echoing the colour