I found that India is changing at a tremendous speed. My traditional subject matter focussing on the difficult life faced by so many women in rural India was in many places hard to find.

       I searched for women fetching water from local wells or seasonal lakes but was told wherever I went that I would not find them anymore. Water is now supplied by pipeline to the houses following a huge investment by the government. 

     Good for the health and well-being of the women who had to travel often considerable distances with such heavy water pots but sad that such a beautiful and colourful visual and social event may be soon lost. Happily some of my favourite locations still had a few ladies visiting the local wells and this series of paintings are the result.

Women and Children are still working collecting firewood and rubbish as captured in the paintings below.

<February 2021.   lockdown has been difficult for all of us. No exhibitions, no life models, no contact with other artists. I have managed to keep painting in between home tutoring . Please find below a selection of paintings completed over the last couple of months. With galleries closed , my normal way of selling my paintings , I am happy to sell directly via this web site

Ashbourne Summer exhibition 2018

I have submitted 4 works which I hope will be as successful as last year. The Exhibition runs from June 22nd to the 30th June and is located in Ashbourne town hall.

Cank Street Gallery, Leicester Summer exhibition.

 I have submitted 3 works in to this city centre gallery for an exhibition which runs all summer. 

New developments. March/April 2018

A virtually abstract painting trying to evoke the light, heat, space and dust of the Rajasthan desert. Large in size, heavy in texture but very subtle in colour.

Exhibition arranged   

The Parsonage Gallery in Didsbury have agreed to show my work in November/December 2020

New series of paintings.( September to December 2017) The latest series of paintings have experimented with including element of Indian architecture to help locate the paintings. Whilst these still have large colour fields they have become less absract and now represent walls in the 4 main cities I have spent most time in.(Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Jaipur and Udiapur). 2 further paintings have experimented with creating shimering dusty colour fields.

Ashbourne Festival exhibition May 2017

   Three paintings were selected by the organisers which, seeing as they were quite large and space in the town hall is limited, I felt was a good result. Two sold which was pleasing as they were not in my traditional style. 

The Foxlowe Gallery Exhibition          May/June 2019

The Gallery has offered me an opportunity to show my work with 2 others next year.

I have decided to build on the success at the Ashbourne exhibition and show some more   pastels with mixed media. I have also experimented with setting my figures within the   back streets of the cities of Rajasthan. Like my rural / desert landscapes these locations   are calm and often quite empty which is the opposite to many peoples experience and   perception of the tourist areas within Indian cities. I have always enjoyed wandering the   back streets and have been privileged to observe life away from the hectic shopping and   traffic. I have tried to capture the basic life of the people who live there whilst fetching water, returning from washing clothes etc. The backdrops for this activity are the painted walls of buildings. These walls to me are the essence of India. They have withstood Indian life for often centuries. They have been scratched, spat on with red betel juice, rubbed against, attacked by high humidity, monsoon rains and scorching heat. Plaster has crumbled, layers of paint have peeled, posters have been layered upon each other and sign writers work and more informal graffiti is everywhere. Such textures and subtle variations of often bright colours make cities like Jodhpur (the blue city), Jaipur (the pink city) and Jaisalmer (the golden city) exciting places to paint

Foxlowe Exhibition 2019

This was a highly successful exhibition with many people visiting and giving positive feedback. Much work was sold which was pleasing and now I have a good idea of the style of work most favoured in this area at least.