About

I am a retired engineer and now  have the time to indulge my passion for painting and combine it with my life-long interests in motorsport and all forms of transport by land, sea and air.

My training was with the British Aircraft Corporation based at Filton, Bristol and my early career was spent on Concorde design - hence the preponderance of Bristol aircraft in my aviation paintings  Similarly my marine paintings are largely connected with the Bristol Channel area and especially the famous P&A Campbell’s White Funnel Fleet of paddle steamers.

However my greatest passion is for motor racing, especially on the classic road circuits of Europe in the days before modern commercialism took control.

......The Artist

......The Paintings

I paint exclusively in oils; I have tried watercolour and acrylics but have found that oils give greater flexibility and both greater intensity and subtlety of colour than the other mediums.  All my work is well researched, backed up by my own extensive reference library, but although I always strive for technical accuracy I am just as interested with achieving a sense of time and place.

I am especially concerned for the subject to ‘sit’ correctly - whether it is a ship heeling to the wind, a car cornering at speed, an aircraft banking or the weight of a locomotive on the rails.

In my motor racing paintings I have been trying to achieve a sense of speed whilst still achieving a clearly recognisable image of the cars - I will leave it to you to judge whether I have succeeded.