Since 2005, over a thousand of my cartoons appeared in the Evening Times. Of these, only six or seven were rejected, for various reasons. Many more were simply not printed because the letters page was devoted to a specific subject and there wasn't room for a cartoon.
This is an examp...
Elaine is another regular and long-standing art school model. It's not a flattering portrait but I like it as a painting. Her features have a timeless quality and I have no difficulty imagining her among Lautrec's circle of associates.
Acrylic on board. 20 x 15 inches
Below are two m...
This is one of the first paintings I produced using acrylic. It took me some time to get used to the medium. I missed the tactile feel of oil paint and the evocative smell of linseed but I now think the advantages outweigh the drawbacks.
Acrylic on board, 21 x 31 inches 1981.
Oil on muslin 30 x 16 inches 1987
About 17 years ago, Hugh Clark, an entrepreneur and businessman, expressed an interest in buying one of my paintings. I met him, and an associate of his, and showed them a selection of my work. He liked 'Babbity Bowster' and asked how much it would ...
I like this wee oil on canvas. I painted it when I was 29 years old and it looks slightly different in style from other paintings I produced about that time. My nephew took this photograph of it last month. I don't know how he avoided a reflection from the glass.
10 x 6 inches
I made ...
I came across this cartoon which was rejected by the Evening Times some time ago. I admit it's not a great cartoon but, unlike others that were knocked back, the reason behind this decision perplexed and irritated me.
One of the sub-editors, not my own, labeled it 'Racist.' Although ...
I haven't seen this mixed media work for over 30 years and considered it an abject failure when I produced it.
I think that feeling was more to do with the fact I didn't enjoy working on it. It was such a detailed, laborious and painstaking process, I seemed to lose all spontaneity o...