'As Sure as Daylight' 100x80cm on wood panel. Digging back through preparations of colour, wax and alkyd mixes. The daylight reaches back...

A passing over Vivid Shoal. A mix of waxed oil layers, digging, glazing, scraping and drawing. #oilpainting #abstractart #ukart #fineartu...

Introduced this week with a debut collection for @smithsonprojects in Bristol. Some of the works heading to the collection. Lots of...

'Vivid Shoal' 165 x 105cm. A new painting on a double board. A restless sandbar offers up fleeting treasures. A recent painting homed by...

A couple having a cure together. Pastels, oils, earth pigments, pencils and mediums. #oilpainting #abstractart #ukart #fineartuk #artwork...

'Knot and Bine 4' 64x56cm Oils, pencil and pastel. Part four of this set has a mellow pink palette. More fall of shade than the solid...

'Knot and Bine 3' 100x80cm Oils, pastels, wax and sharp tools. A little more overlay of forms in this one. Introducing more pastel to...

'Knot and Bine 2' 105x105cm Oils, wax and sharp tools. A change in tone from No.1. Warm pink and burning light. Somewhere between...

'Knot and Bine 1' 120x100cm, cold wax, pencil and various abrasions. Buckling stems and joints or just an impression. Fossilised or...

Second half of a recently commissioned pair of darkening and overlapping shadows. 97x80cm Oil glazes, cold wax and surface abrasions....

First half of a recently commissioned pair. 97x80cm Overlapping shade from organic forms. Bright sun light plunges in to deeper and...

Working in to the darker greens and browns with a sharp edge. Last layer before a final glaze on top. #oilpainting #abstractart #ukart #f...

Different jobs but catching very similar tones in the light. Greens and soft pinks about. #oilpainting #abstractart #ukart #fineartuk #ar...

After scraping and gouging in to layers old and new, it is pleasing to finish with a calming smooth brush gesture....

I want to work as much as possible in natural daylight. This means clinging on to the last workable wisps of the day. There is a moment...

The bolder gestures added at the end have got this piece right I feel. Still a big open space but the forms now show the right motion and...

Verona Green earth pigment going in to this new piece. Powders are versatile and I've been working behind the scenes to find interesting...

Using earth tones and all sorts of mediums, exploring the surface and developing techniques. #oilpainting #abstractart #ukart #fineartuk ...

I work mostly on wood panel. Larger artworks need extra stability and aluminium sub frames offer anti-warping, framing ease and hanging...

This panel has had priming, staining, cold wax and oil paint. Scratching, etching, charcoal and now working in some beautiful earth...