Drawing and Painting
I attended life drawing classes at York School of Arts and Crafts in 1967 as part of studies for an ‘A’ level art course, never completed. Over the next three decades I did little or no painting and but did a great deal of technical drawing and planning of archaeological discoveries and I was able to extend this to book illustration (see Publications). In 1998 I again began painting at the Borders College and followed this up with life classes at various centres and displays of work in Scotland and York.
Portrait of Jane Kirby 1967
Figure from the book Warfare and Fortification in the Borders
(Scottish Borders Council 2000)
Iron Age burial. Site drawing made 1976
Walking to Dunstanburgh (oil on canvas)
Melinda 7 (oil pastel on paper)
Venice, St Mark's (oil on canvas)
Relics of Autumn (pen and wash)
5-minute poses 2019 (1)
Alexa 2019 (pencil and watercolour)
Richmond Bridge, California (oil on canvas)
Gargilesse 5 (Watercolour)
Still life 1 (acrylic on paper)
Yangtse fishers (acrylic on board)
Petra 1 (pastel)
Elsinor (oil on canvas)
St Bavokerk, Haarlem (oil on canvas)
2019 (pencil and watercolour)
Venice palazzo (watercolour)
Castle drawing room (oil on canvas)
Scars at Robin Hoods Bay (watercolour)
Dog walkers by Ale Water (oil on board)
Rough sea at Tynemouth (oil on canvas)
5-minute poses 2019 (2)
Houses at Chauvigny, Poitou (oil on board)
The Eildon Hills 1 (oil on canvas)