I have never wanted to be a better painter of urban scenes so much as when making my regular visits back to Cairo. The city I grew up in is sprawling, chaotic, vast, and simply vibrates with life. The largest city in Africa and the Middle East, parts of what is now Cairo were already […]
Portraits were my very first artistic addiction. I used to draw the faces of some of my classmates at school, in pencil. It was one of the few things I enjoyed doing there. My efforts have grown organically, if cautiously. John Singer Sargent famously said “Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend”. […]
Delighted to have recently joined the Inverness Art Society, and participated in their annual exhibition alongside so many experienced Highlands Artists. Three of my paintings and four limited edition prints were exhibited.
Summer in the Highlands, huge skies and vast open spaces. Since moving here a few months ago I have been doing regular sketching out of doors, and loving it. I am learning the names and sounds of native birds, and trying to get better at identifying trees. Just behind where we live there is a […]