Back at the BBC!

This week kicked off with a real surprise as I was invited to join the host of BBC Radio Somerset breakfast show, Claire Carter, to comment on my urban landscape art and the basis around urban sketching. With a new stunning new  dragon sculpture recently unveiled by the talented chainsaw sculptor Matthew Crabb, art and town culture has come under some debate.  It was a pleasure to discuss with Claire how I believe we should embrace every effort to enrich where we live with expressive art. Listen to the radio interview here and let me know your thoughts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A3KywRSw6U

My recent sketch of the newly developed Coal Orchard riverside area in Taunton caught the eye of the BBC and we discussed the ethos behind drawing on location, capturing a personal view of the urban space and more specifically how I like to work with fast and fluid mark making, continuous line drawing and of course, bold colour use influenced by the day, the weather or simply just my mood.

Book launch - Line and Wash in the Urban Landscape

Two and a bit years later after initially starting the journey of writing  I am proud to announce the pre-order availability of my new book, 'Line and Wash in the Urban Landscape'. It's been a challenging few years personally and my love of sketching and drawing has kept me sane and given me some much needed focus. 

The book is deliberately focused on a fair balance of theory and reportage sketching with commentary around my thought processes. Personally I never could entirely relate to theory heavy instructional books and simply wanted to dip in and out of a book and get under the skin of what an artist was thinking. This is very much the essence of what I have aimed to do. 'Line and Wash in the Urban Landscape' is built around developing loose, rhythmic sketching that delivers originality over architectural perfection. 

Huge thanks go to the publishing team at Searchpress. Pre orders are now available (just in time for Christmas) at all major booksellers including Amazon and Penguin 

Exhibiting at The Holt Gallery

Very proud to share the news of being invited to be feature as part of the Cross Roads exhibition at the The Gallery Holt. The urban landscape themed exhibition featured a range of artists who focus on architectural subjects.

An exhibition of original paintings of the urban landscape. Over half of the worlds’ population, some 4.2 billion inhabitants*, live in our cities around the world. This exhibition will focus on inspirational and diverse architecture which can be found in some of the most recognisable locations around the world.

Five original pieces are available to see and purchase at the event and online