All Year Long

In February (I think!) I started this picture. Almost a year of pencil sketching and pen inking, and that’s just the blocking. In theory the finishing will be a bit quicker.

It’s Christmas

Unwittingly atmospherically dark, a different style of card that was too sharply cropped on printing. Drawn from a snowy picture taken early in 2017. It suits the times.

It’s Christmas

Definitely my favourite Christmas card painting. Shame I have a *major* mistake in it, fortunately only obvious to Northampton folk of a certain age.

It’s Christmas

I don’t take particularly well to painting, but this sort of worked. Ended up being a nice card

Mining The Old Stuff

Went a bit mad with the bricks. The long gone Northampton St John’s station for trains to Bedford. The home of a university block and the local radio station.

Mining The Old Stuff

Northampton Castle Station: While the 60s built station was being demolished and redeveloped, I drew this from a photo taken when the Victorian station was being demolished for the redevelopment that led to the 60s station.

It seems to capture the madness of Northampton in the 20th century

Mining The Old Stuff

I had a vague idea that this would make a nice business card. Just around the corner from me, the lower end of the Kettering Road.

Mining The Old Stuff

For a friend: don’t generally keep copies of gifts so a bit mystified to see I have this.
The old Abington Square, Charles Bradlaugh is still there but everything has gone the way of much of grand Northampton

Starting Again

 Where I work.

Northampton is generally the inspiration for what I draw and paint.

In the background is my Mounts painting: done just for me and hangs above my sofa.