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This portrait of these 2 charming ladies – mum & daughter – will be flying to Zimbabwe, as the mother is going back for a visit to that troubled country., I didn`t have to ask them to smile, they were chortling for the whole time it took me to do their portraits – about 45 … Read more

An interesting couple sat for me when I did portraits (& caricatures!) at a shopping centre in Farnborough, Hampshire. The beautiful, graceful lady is from Poland and her friend is from Afghanistan, he was amazedwhen I told him that I stayed in Kabul for 3 weeks in 1979 when it was a hippietourist stopping off … Read more

Did this portrait of the great Jimi Hendrix last week to show at a shopping centre that I was promoting my work in over the weekend. Along came a man who said to me – `I used to know him`, turned out to be a record producer who worked with him in the 60`s. He … Read more

This lovely lady bought the dress expressly for the portrait sitting,she was a bit disappointed that I couldn`t fit much of it in.

I got a request from a scottish band ( from Glasgow) to do a caricature of them playing their guitars. They kindly sent me a copy of the album- laid back jangly guitars, good songs- nice!

Such a pleasure to be asked to do an oil painting from such a great wedding photo, the Indian wedding clothes are gorgeous and great fun to paint. Makes an English wedding seem a bit subdued!

Drawing direct is never easy and sometimes the delicate faces of young girls I find a real test, some times I manage to `get them` and other times go a bit wide of the mark!

After many years apart, my brother was re-united with his daughter Victoria five years ago, now an art & architecture teacher. Last week we had an exhibition together in Surrey.My brother with his realist landscapes & nudes, me with my neo-impressionist stuff & Victoria with abstract prints.It was a happy occasion.

One of the good things about working in areas like East London is the great variety of nationalities there for me to draw. a young English footballer (in an Argentine shirt), a Turkish man in an interesting hat and a beautiful girl from the Ukraine.

Drawing portraits is always a challenge but when they`re as beautiful as these two girls ,who sat for me consecutively last Saturday at a shopping mall in Hounslow, there is less margin for error.The pressure is on to do their beauty justice. The dark-haired girl is French & the blonde from ( I think) Poland.