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24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board. My work has been described as esoteric, ephemeral and nostalgic and in this piece I have attempted to capture all of those qualities. It was fun to do so I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I did painting it.

Waterloo The Southbank revisited

I revisited the painting as I had described a lot of people movement and the solitary soldier with a back pack did not seem to promote the movement so he has been replaced with a group in transit. Its part of the process I have as over time there are several reviews and changes made as someone told me once "its not finished until you say its finished" and this is a regime that I have followed over the years.

Waterloo The Southbank

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from photograph taken while visiting London during Summer 2009. Photograph outside Waterloo Station on the southbank in London of people walking past the entrance. The movement intrigued me, no one had time to stop or feel the rain on there faces except for the two guys beside the advertisement board who were unaware of the activity around them and just continued to chat and smoke not a care in the world. The rain was coming down at a steady drizzle so my wife and I had taken shelter in a coffee shop whilst waiting for friends we had arranged to meet. I took several photographs while sitting there and these will be used in future works.

Evening Standard

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from photograph taken while visiting London during Summer 2009. Photograph outside Waterloo Station on the southbank in London of people walking past an Evening Standard newspaper stand. The rain was coming down at a steady drizzle so my wife and I had taken shelter in a coffee shop whilst waiting for friends we had arranged to meet. I took several photographs while sitting there and these will be used in future works.

Evening Standard Stage 2

Stage 2 of painting after sketch drawing on canvas board black and white and shades of grey are added to establish the values for the final painting.

Black cab Kensington

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from photograph taken while visiting London during summer of 2009. My wife and I had just been to Kensington park and had walked through the gardens of Kensington Palace the former home of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

Stage 2 of painting after sketch drawing on canvas board black and white and shades of grey are added to establish the values for the final painting.

Yellow Taxi Cab New York

24 x 18 diptych acrylic on canvas board derived from a photograph taken in Times Square New York. The work was an award winner at the Wichita Center for the Arts in 2008.