A Selection of Previously Sold Paintings
Title:
Evening in Cumberland Street
Media:
oil on canvas
Size:
16"x20"
Description:
Street lights transform the feel of the built environment...especially here.
Title:
American Root
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
24x32"
Description:
This uprooted tree reveals the fight for life being fought out of sight and reminds this artist of other issues conveniently put
aside but waiting - perhaps - to burst forth.
Title:
Seckford Street
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
16x20.5"
Description:
Named after the Town's benefactor - Thomas Seckford - an important figure at the early Elizabethan court.
Title:
Wickham Market
Media:
oil on canvas
Size:
16x22
Description:
A quiet country town close to Woodbridge but in former times a busy
coaching stop on the London road.
Title:
Approach to the town square
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
15.5x21"
Description:
A favourite view of the town for this artist - early spring light on
the wonderful old architecture lining the Market
square.
Title:
Power Assisted travel
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
14x18"
Description:
A little help with the weight of life's problems is always welcome - even if it is more psychological than physical
Title:
The pattern of life
Media:
Oil on canvas
Size:
20x24
Description:
Inside the Designer's mind .
Title:
The SPAD
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
15x18
Description:
Famous French Aircraft from WW1 era that reputedly dealt the fatal blow to
the illustrious Red Baron
Title:
Woodbridge from Kyson Point
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
28x15"
Description:
Idyllic view of Woodbridge from downstream at
Kyson Point.
Title:
A glimpse of the Thorofare
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
23x14"
Description:
This passage in Woodbridge takes on a romantic mood as evening approaches. The main Thorofare
is visible at the far end.
Title:
Melton Village
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
21x13.5"
Description:
Now a delightful sleepy old village on the outskirts of Woodbridge but once part of of the main route from London when horse-drawn transport was the only option.
Title:
Southwold Jetties
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
18.5x28"
Description:
The River Blythe is home to an active sea-going, fishing fleet, some berthed on the northern Southwold side and some across the river at Walberswick. The harbour has a construction freedom that fascinates this artist.
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
18x16"
Description:
Illuminated windows sparkle on a winter's evening in Woodbridge...shopping is still alive and well in the town.
Title:
Stone breakers
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
30x18"
Description:
Stone breakers in Sierra Leone... a reminder to many of us that our lives could have been very different.
Title:
Wickham Market Sketch
Media:
graphite on paper
Size:
16x9
Description:
Trees in full leaf often obscure broad views of this
delightful old market town. Winter provides the moment.
Title:
Aldeburgh Town Steps
Media:
oil 0n panel
Size:
16x20"
Description:
A welcome short cut for walkers are these 18th
century steps which in a minute will take you
to the high street and almost to the ocean's edge.
However, as usual it's the view that becomes
the wonder.
Title:
View from the window
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
345x750mm
Description:
The sun breaks through the cloud cover and a
magical view is instantly revealed.
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
16"x20"
Description:
This unique roadside house marks the entrance
to a delightful narrow street full of small terraced
houses - many with the most delightful gardens.
Title:
Cross corner at night
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
24"x13"
Description:
The Cross on the left and The Crown on the right
have been receiving guests and travellers for hundreds of years. This central crossroad in
Woodbridge still has the old allure especially at night.
Title:
Morning Thorofare
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
16"x20"
Description:
Diverse architecture from the grand to the vernacular adorns this main street to the constant
delight of this artist. Let us hope that continuing
commercial success allows it to inspire generations to come.
Title:
Dusk on Market Hill
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
22.5"x12"
Description:
Always a source of warmth and good cheer for this artist - despite the onset of winter - is a walk into Market Hill as early evening approaches.
Title:
A walk down Brook Street
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
16"x20"
Description:
One of many gems in Woodbridge where a casual
meander is such a pleasure.
Title:
View down Angel Lane
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
18"x14"
Description:
A beguiling mix of building styles characterise
this old lane that leads down from the Market
Hill.
Title:
Lower New Street
Media:
graphite on paper
Size:
280mmx200
Description:
A favourite turn in the road with locals and
visitors alike. Residents decorate their house fronts
and there is the tempting view of the 'Mariners'
just around the corner.
Title:
View of Drybridge Hill
Media:
graphite on paper
Size:
280mmx190
Description:
Yet another range of houses that add
to the visual attraction of Woodbridge town.
Title:
Woodbridge Lamplight
Media:
oil 0n panel
Size:
395x585mm
Description:
The warm friendly feeling of Woodbridge by
evening light is always a joy to experience.
Title:
Woodbridge Thorofare at dusk
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
390x530mm
Description:
Evening lights from shops and street lamps
throw patterns of light across across this
busy shopping street.
Title:
Snow on Market Hill
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
220x603mm
Description:
Snow always adds a delightful visual transformation.
Title:
Summer in the Thorofare
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
382x510mm
Description:
A variety of architectural styles epitomises
the character of Woodbridge...a touch of sunshine
adds to the magic.
Title:
Girl with bangles
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
20x24"
Description:
Taking it easy in Sierra Leone
Title:
Summer at The Anchor
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
550x355
Description:
One of the landmarks of Woodbridge as you drive through and a wonderful place to stop and watch the world go by.
Title:
Market Hill
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
530x360
Description:
The glorious mix of historic architecture makes the Market Hill beguiling at all times but the moment
the lights go on in the late afternoon during winter it becomes irresistible.
Title:
Red Lion
Media:
graphite on paper
Size:
8x11"
Description:
Well known pub that heads up the Woodbridge Thoroughfare.
Title:
The Low House, Laxfield
Media:
graphite on paper
Size:
8x11"
Description:
Well known ancient historical pub in Suffolk.
Title:
Windows in Woodbridge
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
445x380mm
Description:
Glorious lights shine from the windows in
Woodbridge's main shopping street and although there's a chill in the air, warmth seems to radiate.
Title:
Quay Street original drawing
Media:
Graphite on paper
Size:
210x280
Description:
Well known Woodbridge Street leading to the river Deben.
Media:
Graphite on paper
Size:
200x300mm
Description:
All Saints Church spire can be seen from miles around but this view is close to the village square.
Title:
original drawing of the Town
Media:
Graphite on paper
Size:
280mmx190mm
Description:
An open rowing boat once regularly ferried locals
across the river from the Sutton side.
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
30.75"x13"
Description:
A strange year for weather but a beautiful autumn
was the result
Title:
Woodbridge road at Boulge
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
24"x16"
Description:
Majestic old oaks line the Woodbridge Road at Boulge near Woodbridge.
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
19.5"x13.5"
Description:
Even in the rain, the Thoroughfare still has the buzz...shoppers can be relied upon to provide colour and excitement to this vibrant old town.
Title:
Train crossing at Bass Dock
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
485x310mm
Description:
Technology that transformed this country into a
world leader - the railway - is still with us: a touch of
yesteryear.
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
465x325mm
Description:
A chill morning light adds a fresh brightness to
this familiar river.
Title:
River Wall
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
24x10
Description:
Idiosyncratic buildings decorate the river wall at Woodbridge
Title:
Evening shopping
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
18x14.5"
Description:
The Thoroughfare on a late autumn evening is busy as always and as
always, looks inviting.
Title:
The Hill, Woodbridge
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
710x220 (28x8.5")
Description:
This old market square is painted here at the point where a few of the daytime
shops are still open as the evening pubs and restaurants are just opening their doors. Anticipation
goes hand in hand with a sense of well being.
Title:
Drybridge Downhill
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
14x22"
Description:
Another wondrous chance collection of buildings
tumbling downhill in Woodbridge and all jostling for position yet miraculously supporting each other to produce an abstract cacophony of shapes and textures guaranteed to delight this observer.
Title:
Approach to Woodbridge Town
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
21x16"
Description:
The visual delights of Woodbridge are revealed, for this artist, as one approaches the town centre along Ipswich Road. Also
revealed is one of many refreshment stops offered by
the town.
Title:
Evening shoppers
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
22x16
Description:
A winter's evening in Woodbridge comes alive as the street lights
appear and light from the shop windows spills
across the narrow road.
Title:
Cumberland
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
810x250mm
Description:
A spectacular area in the British Isles hitherto unknown to this artist.
What a discovery looking across the upper reaches
of Morecambe Bay by evening light.
Title:
Cumberland street,Woodbridge
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
19x17"
Description:
A fashionable local street from the past and still so today - the architecture just as beguiling as ever to this artist.
Title:
Woodbridge at Night
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
19x17"
Description:
The Thoroughfare is the main shopping street and can be relied upon
after dark for the essentials of life - colour and fun.
Title:
Top of Cumberland Street
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
Description:
This street has been home to many illustrious names from
history and some would argue still is.
Title:
River wall
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
32x12"
Description:
The River wall looking back towards Woodbridge Town dominated by the ancient Tidemill. This is a favourite walk for visitors and locals. A tidal river and changeable weather means the experience is constantly renewed.
Title:
Bass Dock in Woodbridge
Media:
Guache on paper
Size:
24x15"
Description:
Bass Dock in Woodbridge the way it used to be after the jetty was built in the 1960s
Title:
Church Street
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
20x19
Description:
Church Street is one wing of the well-known Cross Corner - an area where locals and visitors are spoilt for choice when looking for pubs and restaurants.
Title:
New Street
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
19x18
Description:
This well-known street in Woodbridge is self evidently no longer 'new' but is
all the better for that when these old proportions and human scale buildings are compared with much that bears today's newness title.
Title:
The Thoroughfare
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
710x460mm (28"x18")
Description:
Arriving in Woodbridge from nearby Melton every motorist is greeted by
this view of the Town's main street. While the traffic lights are making up their mind there is time to weigh up the pub on the left and the flag of the British Legion on the right.
Title:
Quayside at dusk
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
610x430 mm 24x17"
Description:
Dusk continues to fascinate this observer especially in the context of the freestyle
buildings that fortunately still dominate this old town.
The former Ship Inn (centre) was the true centre of the world for generations of seamen and longshoremen in
this old dockside area.
Title:
Pipework
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
17x22
Description:
The visual elegance of the smokers pipe caught the attention of this
artist even though the pastime itself is not to
be recommended.
Title:
Bass Dock in winter
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
920mmx343mm (36"x13.5")
Description:
Snow is a rare visual luxury and a moment not to be lost as a blanket of snow is draped across the mud flats to echo winter covers on laid- up sailing craft.
Title:
Morning Frost
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
1220mmx610mm (48"x24")
Description:
Shafts of orange sunlight puncture the frosty morning air in this Suffolk
landscape adding a flame-like quality to a solitary tree. Grey skies give way to blue with promise of warmth, life and a new day.
Title:
New Street
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
610x460mm(24x18in)
Description:
Late afternoon sun lights up this well-known street in Woodbridge
drawing the viewer's attention to the truly wonderful
mix of assorted architecture deposited by the passage
of time.
Title:
Just the Three of Us
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
500x710mm (19.5x27.5")
Description:
Style is said to be vital in the modern world. If you can link your 'a la mode' preferences to those around you and present a united front, it is perhaps the onlooker who may be said to be just out of step.
Title:
Woodbridge Promenade
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
760x420mm (30x16.5")
Description:
A fashionable part of Woodbridge for locals and tourists alike. Early on a chill winter morning the Yacht Club on stilts at the river's edge and the collection of promenade shelters and pagoda-like bandstand give a slightly eastern flavour to the River walk.
Title:
Brook Street
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
1225x250mm 50x9"
Description:
Well-preserved 19thC workers housing has a cosiness and human scale that make this Woobridge Street universally admired.
Title:
Market Hill
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
28x12.5
Description:
The Elizabethan Shire Hall is usually seen from ground level where it towers
above the viewer and dominates the Market Hill in Woodbridge. Seen from this light hearted viewpoint
it takes its place amid surrounding buildings - church, pubs houses - many of them much older.
Title:
Kingston Road
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
15x20
Description:
A throughway to a park, boatyards and the river that nevertheless has the casual charm of so much of Woodbridge. Well manicured foreground hedges have become sculptural icons contrasting with the ragged skyline - a visual delight for anyone with time to stare.
Title:
Hilltop village in France
Media:
oil on canvas
Size:
20"x24"
Description:
A hilltop village near the French/Italian border displaying all the skill
in stonework needed to shoehorn a community into the smallest possible space. A sheer wonder of man's
engineering ingenuity and of course a must for any
artist.
Title:
Seckford Street
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
21"x18.5"
Description:
Thomas Seckford gives his name to a number of places and institutions in Woodbridge but this street is for this artist, the most interesting.
Title:
The missing key
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
570x840 (22.5"x33)
Description:
Humanity so often looses the key to co-existence. This work was produced to remind us all to keep searching.
Perhaps there is nothing more important...
Title:
Bredfield Village
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
710x250mm (28x10"0
Description:
The village of Bredfield painted here in the early morning on a late Spring day. Apart from changes in crop rotation and a spot of hedge cutting, not much changes from one decade to the next - how wonderful.
Title:
Theatre Street
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
535mm x 610 (21"x24")
Description:
A heavy sky lurks behind the smiling faces of these old buildings. They have, however, seen it all before.
Title:
Claude Whisstock
Media:
Oil on canvas
Size:
500mmx600mm (20x24)
Description:
Commissioned Portrait Claude Whisstock - head of the family yacht-building business that bore his name and which
dominated Woodbridge's waterfront for most of the
second half of the 20th century.
Title:
First snow
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
610x360mm (24x14")
Description:
transforms this familiar stretch of road leading home and reminds this artist of the children's
poem of the same name by M.L.Allen..."Places where I used to play look like somewhere else today".
Title:
Girl in a hat
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
18"x23"
Description:
Just a glance from beneath the rim of a hat can be more devastating
and exotic than all the world's finest jewels...
Title:
The Late Train
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
20"x17"
Description:
A little mist and a few functional lights can almost transform Woodbridge rail station from daytime wrought iron Victoriana into a construction originating from cyber space.
Title:
Music in Madrid
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
20x32"
Description:
This visually miraculous street musician turned heads wherever he danced and played. This artist immediately felt that a painting must be approached in a near-classical manner to preserve the out-of-time mystique while conveying the player's attention to movement.
Title:
Storm on the Deben
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
1800mmx610 (72"x24")
Description:
Heavy clouds charge up the river but there is hope as light forces its way through.
Title:
Travelling Light
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
520mmx760 (21.5x30")
Description:
Early evening light descends at the end of the day as the fruits of life's burdensome chores are carried home. While not all the travellers are so encumbered, there is nevertheless, concern... Relief is still quite a long way off.
Title:
Winter Sun in Woodbridge
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
610mmx450 (24x17.75)
Description:
Out of a cold winter sky... a fleeting shaft of clean bright light magically
sweeps across the enchanting rooftops at the junction of Cumberland Street and Ipswich Road.
Title:
Frank Knights
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
610x610mm (24"x24)
Description:
A well-known waterfront personality to generations of Woodbridge folk. This artist has particular reasons to be grateful to this man for kindness and generosity shown in the past - and the privilege of painting him twice. This final work was just too late for him to see.
Title:
River Craft
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
890mmx380 (35"x15")
Description:
The banks of Woodbridge's River Deben are home to one of the world's most famous craft, the Saxon Ship burial just over the brow of the distant hill. Thousands pass through the turnstiles every year to the site at Sutton Hoo, final resting place of a King's ship
Title:
Nightlife
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
22.5x13.5
Description:
Relief from the pressures of life is a natural friend to
us all. It can come in many forms. For the revelers
out side the Anchor pub in Woodbridge it came in a glass with conversation... an excellent idea.
Title:
River Foreshore
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
1220mm x 605mm (48" x 24")
Description:
High spring tides in river esturaries often bring surprises - flotsam from some foreign place perhaps - but nothing as exotic to this artist's eye as weed naturally hung out to dry on a skeleton of tangled driftwood
Title:
Woodbridge Dock
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
610mm x 1220mm (24" x 48")
Description:
Old gaffers at peace at the end of the day - maybe at the end of a lifetime of hard work...No more straining rigging, no more pounding seas. The tide and the light gently receedes - peace at last.
Title:
Blythe Estuary
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
840x610 (33"x24")
Description:
The Blythe river estuary separates Southwold,on the left, from Walberswick, on the right. Black-tarred wooden buildings perch like crows on the horizon while flimsy jetties seem to offer scant defense against the wild excesses of east anglian weather.
Title:
commissioned portrait
Media:
oil on canvas
Size:
500x600
Description:
Commissioned Portrait of two great friends
Title:
Towels
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
400x800mm
Description:
Internet trading may be changing habits but this form of trading
will never be beaten for immediacy.
Title:
Aldeburgh Beach
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
920mmx343mm (36"x13.5")
Description:
Always jaunty, always windy and always fun - the ever present seagulls think so too.
Title:
Mill in the ice
Media:
Oil on canvas
Size:
400x500mm(16"x20")
Description:
Even as the sun shines a leaden sky suggests the god of weather is not yet appeased.
Title:
Drybridge Hill
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
580x610mm (23x24")
Description:
Chimney pots cascade down this well known approach to the market square in Woodbridge. At the bottom existed a bridge which may well have given the town its name - rather than one across the Deben River as usually suggested.
Title:
Thorofare Snow
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
530x590mm
Description:
Commissioned to celebrate a family's special historical relationship
with this area of the main street in Woodbridge.
Title:
Butley Woods
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
920x320mm (36x12.5")
Description:
The Forestry team pruning the roadside edges of these extensive and ancient Suffolk woods could hardly have known that a light snow shower followed by a sharp frost and a bright morning would transform the piles of trimmings into a writhing and exotic life form.
Title:
Suffolk Lane
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
25"x16"
Description:
Many of our country roads must have looked - before the motor car - as this one still looks. A relic from yesterday passed by in the
rush for speed. A few miles from Woodbridge this
single track lined with coppiced, overhanging trees
catches the cross lighting perfectly.
Title:
Boulge Church
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
17.25x11.5"
Description:
Places of worship ought to radiate a great light and thanks to Suffolk's
predominantly light-pollution-free status, this church
surely does. However, its startling nightly presence is more about the support team than any divine intervention.
Title:
Cycle of Life
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
460x690mm
Description:
Keep going... just keep going. You can't stop anyway. There are always difficulties ahead - sometimes seemingly impossible and often dangerous But also ahead there will be some relief; a break in the cloud, some light - and better times...
Title:
Sundown
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
920mmx610mm (36"x24")
Description:
The last evening sunlight dramatically changes a familiar sight in Woodbridge -the Tide Mill becomes even more exotic as the evening lamplight is reflected in the dark waters.
Title:
The allotment
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
910mmx460mm (36x18)
Description:
Contentment so often comes out of the simplest pursuits. A fleeting glimpse of an allotment from a train is a powerul reminder for this artist of a basic truth so
easily lost.
Title:
Isaac H. Evans
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
560x710mm (22x28")
Description:
Isaac H.Evans out of Rockland, Maine rounding the breakwater
lighthouse in a stiff breeze and heading out into the Atlantic. One of many scooners working the Maine coastline on a regular basis that never fail to delight.
Title:
Woman with Turban
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
500x610mm (20x24")
Description:
Human dignity is often cast off cheaply in the culture we choose to
think of as the enlightened West. Reality TV is perhaps the apotheosis. In impoverished Sierra Leone much effort is put into personal standards, lauding education and supporting the community.
Title:
Commissioned Portrait
Media:
Oil on canvas
Size:
24x18inches
Description:
Commissioned Portrait
Title:
Cross Corner Woodbridge
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
610mmx535mm (24"x21")
Description:
The corner pub gives its name to this junction
Title:
Crabbing
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
1000x400mm(38x16")
Description:
Arguably Suffolk's most important pastime and not to be missed when visiting Walberswick. This bridge is implanted in the minds of thousands of children who over the years have fed every known type of food scrap to the ever eager battalions of crabs.
Title:
Waldringfield Suffolk
Media:
Graphite Drawing
Size:
11x14
Description:
Commissioned drawing for a black and white publication
Title:
Bruges
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
700x460mm 28x18"
Description:
The romance of Bruges is universally acclaimed - especially by this artist - who has every reason to be grateful for a lifetime of
romance from one visit over 40 years ago. This latest painting was produced from a trip to the town only months ago.
Title:
Old Firestation
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
22x18
Description:
The original firestation in Woodbridge was sited in the garage-like building on the far right where a horse-drawn steam-powered water pump was once leading-edge technology.
Title:
Three Boys
Media:
Oil on canvas
Size:
760mm x 610mm (30" x 24")
Description:
Commissioned Portrait of three brothers and their new friends
Title:
Walkies
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
705mmx610mm (27.5"x24")
Description:
Colourful characters on two and four legs walk the earth to the delight of casual observers - and this artist. The painting is a celebration of a break between showers.
Title:
Windswept reeds
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
760x280mm (30"x11)
Description:
A rare luxury so close to Woodbridge Town - a reed bed. The station, cinema, engine shed and swimming pool (with a topsy turvy line of parked boats) take on
a new-found elegance across those windswept reeds.
Title:
Ghent at Twilight
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
20"x17"
Description:
The old town in Ghent is a spectacular confection as night falls. This observer is reminded of 19thC artist, John Martin whose celestial city is truly magnificent as it sits high in the clouds in his gigantic painting.
Title:
Forest floor
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
32x18"
Description:
Shapes,textures and contrasts are the life blood of artists and the flood flows everywhere - including underfoot. Creators are not generally given to looking down but it's all there
just the same.
Title:
Theatre St.& Market Hill
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
610x460mm24x18"
Description:
Several fine old pubs dominate this area of Woodbridge including the Angel
on the left just beyond the entrance to the former Theatre.
Title:
Aldeburgh Seafront
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
915mm x 305mm (36 x 12")
Description:
Aldeburgh's lighthearted buildings are best enjoyed (this artist believes) when standing near the beach and looking inland. The eclectic mix
and mainly jaunty styles are enough to put most of us in a holiday mood.
Title:
River Deben Drawing
Media:
graphite Drawing
Size:
11x14
Description:
commissioned drawing for black and white publication
Title:
Along Cumberland Street
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
580x610mm (23x24")
Description:
Cumberland Street in Woodbridge boasts a prosperous past as these smart town houses testify. Fortunately each new ownership is enthusiastic about preserving authenticity for the
rest of us to enjoy.
Title:
Portrait of Freema
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
430x560 (17"x22)
Description:
A famous face from Television with a vast array of images throughout the media -
a beautiful woman with celebrity status. However, the bubbly character she often plays is not the whole
person. In reality,off camera. she is a thoughtful, incisive personality.
Title:
Yet Again
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
380mmX760mm(15"x30")
Description:
A nostalgic view of boats in the dock at Woodbridge - principally because of the converted smack "Yet" and the grey workboat tied up alongside her - both old friends in the ownership of Woodbridge's best known resident of the dock - Frank Knights.
Title:
Bow Wave
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
1220mmx510mm (48"x20")
Description:
There is a fundamental excitement about sailing in a stiff breeze that draws every sailor back time after time...perhaps something to do with the mystery of a force that transforms a sailing boat into a living thing driving powerfully onwards - almost with a will of its own...
Title:
The Bridge
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
920mmx460 (36"x18")
Description:
A normally reserved race - the British take some aspects of fun very seriously indeed. Crabbing at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast is a case in point... a right of passage that leads to a lifetime's compulsion.
Title:
Upper Church Street
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
560x585mm (22x23")
Description:
Sunshine between showers reminds us all where control really resides.
Fortunately the cycle of life changes very little in
this iconic Woodbridge street.
Title:
Saltings
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
32x19inches
Description:
Saltings on the upper reaches of the river Deben, caught at low tide in the light between late afternoon and evening,
possess a deep intensity of colour and strange
contrasts which transform the ordinary and familiar.
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
19x18
Description:
Once this crossroad was encountered by all the road traffic going north and south along the eastern coastal route. Indeed, within living memory, two way traffic (including motor buses) was obliged to pass
in these narrow streets- now, a one way system.
Title:
Dock
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
760mmx610 (30"x24")
Description:
The natural muddle of normal life is always interesting at Bass Dock in any season and any time of day.
Title:
Jetties on the Blythe
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
910mmx560mm (36x22)
Description:
Randomness used to be a feature of the built environment - a familiar concept to the
mediaeval mind. Little remains of this notion in our over-managed world, except perhaps, in allotments in general and waterside constructions on the river Blythe in particular.
Title:
Still Life
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
610x420mm (24x16.5")
Description:
The ravages of life and time affect us all. Circumstance sometimes seem to accelerate the process. However there is often the chance of slowing the decline and even finding
renewal. Willpower is inevitably the key and in the case of this beached treasure - elbowgrease too.
Title:
Gordes in Provence
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
530x860mm (21x34")
Description:
A glimpse of paradise through a gap in the trees reveals the town of Gordes...promises of chilled local wine on a shady balcony in the warmth of the evening sun..summer dresses..laughter...good to be alive.
Title:
Twilight at Cross Corner
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
600x423
Description:
The sense of excitement that can accompany Friday evenings is typified by
the lights of cross corner in Woodbridge.
Title:
Suffolk road in autumn
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
38x14
Description:
Dark days of winter lie ahead but for the moment the sun fills this
Suffolk road with sheer autumn pleasure
Title:
Ferry Quay
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
760mmx610 (30"x24")
Description:
A break in the storm clouds
Title:
Voortrekker
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
520 x 620 (20x24")
Description:
Boldness, Stoicism and Power
Title:
The Road
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
550x890mm (21.5"x36)
Description:
A lone pedal cyclist travels on a country road. It is his road and his autumn. He travels through light and through shadow.
He has travelled far. Ahead there is a bend and the unknown. However, there appears to be light...
and in any case - he must go on.
Title:
Market Hill at twilight
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
31x14"
Description:
A focus of attention in Woodbridge during daylight hours, this old market area truly comes into its own as evening arrives.Street
lights intermingle with colourful illumination from shops, pubs and restaurants to produce deep intensities in the shadows.
Title:
Driftwood
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
1220mmx610mm (48"x24")
Description:
Excitingly tangled by nature the dried surface weed of the river draped delicately over a bundled skeleton of sticks and branches
Title:
Autumn in Bass Dock
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
760mmx460mm (30"x18")
Description:
The end of the boating season and the end of an autumn day come together bathed in warm sunshine. All should be tranquility, yet the natural chaos of Bass Dock - always exciting to this artist - never lets the viewer forget the reality of work and life.
Title:
Portrait of an actor
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
500x800mm (20"x31)
Description:
Telvision and film actor Luke Roberts waiting to go on set during the making
of 'Pirates of the Caribbean IV'. Dressed as the Captain of the Guard he presented a golden opportunity to create a painting in an 18thC style ... a first for the sitter and the artist.
Title:
Thoroughfare Woodbridge
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
535mm x 610 (21"x24")
Description:
Early summer in Woodbridge - flowers are in bloom, windows are open - another day in a sleepy market town. Above, the weather has other ideas.
Title:
Deben Dawn
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
1150x415 (45x16)
Description:
Spectacular morning light on the Deben takes liberties with reality and momentarily defies belief. Wild streaks of promising daylight give way to heavy cloud. But that too is short lived... and the unreality begins again.
Media:
oil on panel
Size:
460x610mm 18x24"
Description:
Sicily where flights of fancy in architecture and conversation
fit perfectly into the surreal heat of the day.
Title:
Cumberland Street
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
610mmx535mm (24"x21")
Description:
Jagged rooftop angles are a constant feature of Woodbridge townscapes and with time's natural selection of architectural styles produce a visual delight which seems reinforced by the smallness and human scale of it all.
Title:
Italian Village
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
Description:
A soft mist shrouds most of the surrounding hills causing the village to seem suspended in the clouds
Title:
Boulge Road
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
810x500 ("32x19.5)
Description:
In Autumn's afternoon light the road meanders like a slow river through
a thick grove of mature hardwood trees. The
perfect point is marked by a small white signpost
pointing towards the quiet parish church
Title:
Young Boy
Media:
Oil on canvas
Size:
500mm x 400mm (20" x 16")
Description:
Commissioned Portrait
Title:
Driftwood
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
660mm x 1220mm (26" x 48")
Description:
Driftwood just above the strand line that is left untouched except by time and an occasional spring tide can take on a mysterious luminescence as evening light falls.
Title:
Allegory
Media:
Oil 0n panel
Size:
610mmx760mm (24"x30")
Description:
Man universally struggles to walk in a world outside his own head. All of us are prisoners of self to a greater or lesser degree...
all strive for the hope of some relief...all are insecure in the choice of direction...time is not on our side.
Title:
Fabian
Media:
Oil on panel
Size:
610mmx610 (24"x24")
Description:
Fabian is a 'Hauso', the Chilean word for gaucho - superb horsemen whether riding fast on the plains or negotiating impossibly narrow ledges in the high Andes. This artist and his wife experienced at first hand just how impossible - and lived.
