29 Mar 2019
My submission for the 2019 BP Award at the National Portrait Gallery was a portrait of 'Neil' from my series 'Faces of Guildford'.
The painting was preselected and went on to be in the last 100 portrai...
22 Jun 2017
Following the success of the Artspiration Workshop I ran at Easter, I will now be running a Summer Workshop at Rydes Hill School in Guildford from the 24th to the 27th of July.
During the course I will...
21 Mar 2017
I have just completed another workshop as guest teacher for Berkshire based art school Artspiration.
This time, my class were aged between 10 and 12 years and it was there first go at painting in oil...
10 Aug 2016
I have just completed 2 weeks of summer workshop as a guest teacher for Artspiration.
Artspiration are a Berkshire based art school for children aged from 5 years. My class were aged between 6 and 1...
23 Apr 2016
I am delighted to announce that I am now taking commissions for portraits of your beloved pets.
For years people have been asking me to paint pictures of their dogs, cats and horses, and I am now hap...
31 Mar 2016
This years BP Portrait Award has received 2557 entries, from which the final 53 have now been selected. Unfortunately, my painting was not one of them but I did get it down to the last 200 or so....
4 Mar 2016
I am delighted to announce that my submission for the 2016 BP Portrait Award has made it through the first stage of selection, which narrows the thousands of entries down to a few hundred.
The painti...
12 Oct 2015
I was recently commissioned by the University of Surrey to produce this portrait of Sir Christopher Snowden.
The portrait celebrates Sir Christophers retirement as Vice Chancellor after 10 years of se...
3 Aug 2015
Artists from the BP Portrait Award currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery in London will be visiting Cass Art shops this summer to talk about their work, inspiration, painting techniques a...
18 Jun 2015
The 2015 BP Portrait Exhibition opened yesterday with a private view for selected artists and guests. I was delighted to attend the event and was overwhelmed to see that my portrait of Bob Geldof had...