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LANDSCAPE

Mixed media........recent.

Brighton Beach

A photo (Rolleiflex) from the sixties.

WOE IS US

THE CREAM

Before the days of baseball caps, Bermuda shorts and when we all wore ties.

Jo's cigarette break

35mm Olympus OM4

Not so good

trees

Oil on panel 1970

NARROW ESCAPE

This is a rough sketch drawn by my father(a war artist) during WW2 of the damage done by a V1 flying bomb on Winchester Court, Kensington Church street London.The drawing shows rescuers at work looking for survivors.We lived a short way behind the wrecked building.
My father was standing in a shop doorway more or less centre of the picture when the bomb exploded. He was blown to the back of the shop by the blast but un-injured,unfortunately a poor soul inside the shop was killed by the plate glass window which had preceded him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-3IF4eO8v8

Reflection

30s London

Estuary

Oil on wood

Food for thought ladies

MY FRIEND MEI

Whats a bit of snow when you're having fun.

ENGLANDS GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND....until..

This is rather a long film but stay with it and weep.

Christopher Wood

To my mind perfect colour and tone. This painting has influenced me all my life but never able to get near.

Very corny blond joke

The black pond

The black pond in Wales. An impression of a haunt of mine in the eighties & nineties. A pond at the bottom of a hill with very little light getting through.surrounded by thick brambles,I spent hours clearing the area and dredging the pond.I expect it's all gone back to nature now and unseen.

Drawn on a Wacom tablet. here a good toy.

LADIES AFTER MY OWN HEART

First one

I think this was my first published cartoon,1952 in Soldier magazine when I had just finished two years national service.

UP IN THE SKY

Derry and Toms roofgarden. We used to come up here as children in WW2. We lived nearby and most of the local parks were closed off and full of anti-aircraft guns.

This might interest you Hare and Masako...

HOUSESCAPE

Oil on a house for sale notice board..........1965

Dont try this at home

That silly man's not wearing a helmet.

horace Heidt's Orch.........Hello Cutie

Mr Dumbo

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER?

Out of me files...

HELLS ANGEL..........................NOT.

APROACHING MANHOOD

V day

GEE'S DREADFUL JOKES

AND THATS THE TRUTH...

SOME SWEET DAY

Best viewed at full screen

West Mersea Mud

Email from Japan

Mei as cat woman.

MIDLIFE CRISIS

WHEN MEN WERE MEN

AND GIRLS WERE VERY SMALL

AN OLD FASHIONED GIRL

Slurp slurp slurp into the barrel.......... Who remembers this?

PARADISE LOST

THER'S A RIGHT WAY AND A WRONG WAY.

To launch a boat.

GALLOW HUMOUR

WEATHERWISE

Photo from here

The Blogs

Gee wot was

Photograph from the sixties,Gee now twice the girth grey haired and short sighted,children coming up to their fiftieth birthdays,my beloved bike now worth twice as much as me.
I think its called the halcyon days? Was all a big adventure and being old was 30.

photo...rolleiflex 4x4

WHATS THE USE

The pond

Oil on board.

SHADOWS

Studio. 35mm Olympus OM4

Calling all mums

Oils

COULDNT BE GREENER

Sita sings the blues

The decorator

NO LUCK THERE THEN.

The snug

60s picture of one of the front rooms in my house,this was the snug as it had been a pub prior to my buying it. For a while we kept it looking much like the original but soft furnishings gradually crept in.It's a bit difficult to relax on a hard bench unless you have a pint in your hand so goodbye snug,hello living room.