Wicker chairs with densely patterned cushions sit before a window through which can be seen the garden wall and neighbouring houses in Victoria Road, Cowes, IOW. SIZE: 8.25” X 10.5” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Interiors
Self Portrait
The reflection of this serious young woman in a mirror appears to gaze back at the viewer, but she’s really gazing at her own likeness. She wears a beribbonned cheesecloth dress of her own design and manufacture while she paints her self portrait in the garret of the...
St. John’s Wood Kitchen
The view of Allitson Road from the kitchen window at the flat above the bank in St. John’s Wood High Street. Spider plant and sprouted avocado seed on the window ledge. SIZE: 23" X 15" MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Nettleton Children
The boy in the kilt was Robin Nettleton. He grew up near Newcastle, making regular visits to Edinburgh to stay with his grandmother, whose house was in the Royal Mile. His siblings were Sally and Charles. SIZE: 5.75” X 7.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $250...
St. John’s Wood Interior
A young Israeli bride in the sitting room of the flat over the bank in St. John’s Wood High Street. SIZE: 30" X 36” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $450 DIGITAL LICENSE: AVAILABLE
Villars Interior/Exterior
The opened balcony door reveals and reflects the Dents Du Midi in the Chablais Alps of Switzerland. In the foreground are several spent bottles of quite good wine. SIZE: 16" X 11.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Telly, Stoke Newington
An unnaturally shallow television sporting a jug of chrysanthemums in front of the window in Farleigh Road. SIZE: 12” X 8.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Duck Of Urbino
A planter formed like a duck sits on the windowsill in the garret of the flat at Broadview Avenue, overlooking the Don Valley and Toronto skyline. The “Duck” of Urbino in the title of this painting is a reference to the portrait of the Duke of Urbino, Federico da...
Blue Deck Chair
Furniture in the chalet at Argentieres included a bright blue deck chair. SIZE: 21" X 14" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Rosetti
Pints of Pride, perfectly kept Dolcelatte off a great wheel with doorstops of fresh Italian bread at the Rosetti, a Fuller's pub beside the Cavalry Barracks in Ordnance Road, St. John’s Wood. The floors and walls of the pub were completely covered in blue and white...
Mardi Gras
The hallway at Mazenod with a poster from the Mardi Gras at New Orleans on the wall. SIZE: 20” X 26” MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Elton’s Instruments
Saxophonist, Elton Dean’s piano and his jacket slung over the chair, among other items in the sitting room of his flat in Farleigh Road. SIZE: 10.5” X 8” MEDIUM: INK DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Auntie Vi’s Lamp
Josie basks in the focused light from the tiny lampshade of her Auntie Vi’s lamp. She sits at the table in the sitting room of the flat in Stoke Newington. SIZE: 10.5” X 8” MEDIUM: INK DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Alec Washing Dishes
Alec from the back washing dishes at our chalet while on an Alpine skiing holiday SIZE: 10.5” X 8” MEDIUM: INK DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Typewriter
It was a photograph in a magazine. The white wicker, the cream pitcher full of flowers, the dark portrait, the ancient typewriter and the overgrown vegetation outside the window made the scene memorable. SIZE: 7.5” X 5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $75 DIGITAL...
Plant And Bird
The long vines of the houseplant, the telephone wires outside the window and the vertical pattern of the wallpaper below the table define the grid motif in this composition. The plant’s leaves echo the shape of the bird’s beak and tail. SIZE: 17.5” X 12.5” MEDIUM:...
Ashport Avenue
A plant, a watering can, an oval mirror on the floor reflecting the hallway and the top of the stairs, the easel, a knee and the door at the end of the hallway. In the foreground is the Wilton carpet that was a second hand find on Parliament Street. SIZE: 17.5” X...
Humpty Dumpty
A wooden Humpty Dumpty with hinged legs sits in the window of an antique shop in Niagara Falls, Ontario. SIZE: 20” X12.75" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Michael’s Kitchen
Michael’s very colourful, very macho kitchen in the basement flat where he lived, opposite the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, Isle Of Wight. SIZE: 9.5” X 6.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Impala
The gigantic beaded cranberry glass lamp is surrounded by smaller lamps, clocks and portraits in oval frames, all dominated by the sensual form of the Impala as it bursts out of the wall. SIZE: 17.75" X 13" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE...
For More Than Money Can Buy
The fireplace in the dining room with its marble mantelpiece and the cast iron hearth was one of the nicest features of the flat in West End Lane. The papier-maché London bus on top of the mantel had come off the back of the motorbike when rounding a curve in Park...
Entrance of the Unknown Spirit
It’s as if a stately ghost is wafting into the room through the window, sweeping the blue cotton curtain to one side. The telephone faces the chair expectantly. Watercolours of Unbrian scenes float over a pink wall. SIZE: 16” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD...
Chairs, St. John’s Wood
The chairs, their chintz covers, the table, the lamp and the curtains all seem to be caught in transit, dancing as if no one is looking. SIZE: 16” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Bedroom, St. John’s Wood
The bedroom in the garret overlooking the High Street had an early 1950s feel for 1982. The plastic parrot that was a mascot from Cambridge, the wine bottle lamp, the carriage clock, the Turkish table runner, the package of Camels unfiltered and all the other articles...
Archives
During the winter of the Polar Vortex of 2015, Laura shivered in the draughty coach house behind Queen Street to paint this amazing room whose existence was known by very few people. All manner of arcane objects were artfully arranged, from taxidermy owl, cat and...
Heat Wave
Painted during two very hot spells in July and August, 2013. SIZE: 13" X 19.5" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Elizabeth
Elizabeth playing the piano at the house on Sherbourne Street. SIZE: 24” X 24” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD
Cheshire Pia
Pia is so fast asleep in her chair that she is disappearing into dreamland. SIZE: 11.5" X 9" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Living Room, Broadview
The apartment on Broadview Avenue, which had a turret facing the street was a bit like stepping into an earlier age since it was furnished with grandparents' belongings, but the telephone on the bookcase was actually contemporary at the time of this drawing. SIZE:...
Good Tea Is Better Value
Painted in 1982 at Challoner Mansions, a flat in Kensington. The painting was sold at a gallery show in Toronto. In 1985 it was accepted as an exhibit at the Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, Monaco but since the purchaser of the painting was...
Inside Out
This view of the couch and the window out into the garden from the sitting room of the annex at Mornington is the counterpart to the painting, “Outside In.” SIZE: 16" X 12" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD
View of Portsmouth
A view across the Solent from inside the Seaview Yacht Club to Portsmouth in the distance. Pennants from different clubs are hung over the window. SIZE: 16" X 11" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Bedroom at Mornington
A view out of the window from a bedroom in the annex at Mornington looking up the hill in Cowes, Isle of Wight. The annex was a newer (newer than 1842) two storey portion of the building that contained a kitchen with one of the oldest gas ovens on the Isle of Wight...
Broken Glass
While en route to Ishgl, Austria, from London in 1987, the artist was deported from France because at the time Canadians required a visa. While returning to Dover in the ferry from Calais Laura bought a bottle of Janneau Armagnac as consolation for the inconvenience...
St. John’s Wood, Kitchen
The view of Allitson Road through the old glass pane of the kitchen window at the flat above the bank in St. John’s Wood High Street. The white tank on the right side of the painting is an electric water heater. SIZE: 16" X 11" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD...
Sarah
Sarah was a neighbour at West End Lane. She worked as a designer. In her spare time she was an avid jive dancer and lifter of weights. The fragment of the oil painting at the top of this portrait is "Chrysanthemums". SIZE: 32" X 32" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART...
Wolseley
The handsome and extremely intelligent black cat, son of Cassiopeia, was named after a little black automobile spotted on the motorway which he resembled when he was a kitten. He was at various times also called “Woolly” and “Albert Einstein.” SIZE: 21" X 14" MEDIUM:...
Tim
A young solicitor at home in Mazenod Avenue reading an old lease and enjoying his evening cup of tea by the fire. Glaxo Pharmaceuticals collection. SIZE: 30" X 36" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT $450 DIGITAL LICENSE...