Sunday 28 February 2010

XP1


LANDSCAPE


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

Brighton Beach

A photo (Rolleiflex) from the sixties.

Saturday 27 February 2010

Friday 26 February 2010

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


Thursday 25 February 2010

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

Wednesday 24 February 2010

Tuesday 23 February 2010

Monday 22 February 2010

Food for thought ladies


MY FRIEND MEI

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

Sunday 21 February 2010

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.

Saturday 20 February 2010

Friday 19 February 2010

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.

Thursday 18 February 2010

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

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Dont try this at home

That silly man's not wearing a helmet.

Sunday 14 February 2010

Friday 12 February 2010

Wednesday 10 February 2010

AN OLD FASHIONED GIRL


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

Sunday 7 February 2010

Saturday 6 February 2010

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

Friday 5 February 2010

Tuesday 2 February 2010

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.