Category: Drawings

The colours of the sea , the sky, the sunset and the daylight all combine in this drawing.

Wild flowers bring a splash of colour along the field edge

When the wind is still and the sea seems motionless a total calm descends on the beach.

The sunrise blazes through the dark clouds of the receding storm leading to a fine day ahead.

When the west winds blow hard the rough sea and the wild sky merge into one confused but beautiful scene.

This is a ‘work in progress’, a more distant view of the fields of ripe oil seed rape growing on Halsall Moss. I need to live with this for a few days before making further progress.

Two pastel drawings of wildflowers growing along the edge of the corn fields on Halsall Moss.

£75 each

Living on the west coast gives us the wonderful spectacle of the sunset, often totally hidden by banks of grey cloud but frequently exploding with colours, the reds, oranges and yellows contrasting sharply with the deep indigo and sky blues that gradually come to dominate the scene as the sun disappears below the far horizon.

All visions from memory of places visited.

I return time and time again to the view from the beach – at Ainsdale, Birkdale or Southport – enjoying the changes brought about by the weather. The stillness when the wind is quiet and the sea ebbs and flows seemingly without moving to the violent crashing waves driven on shore by the force 8 westerly gales.