Sketchbooks & Explorations
From The Archives
Welcome to my visual diary. This gallery is a dedicated space for raw exploration, featuring unique circular formats, panoramic views, and mixed canvas grains dictated by the ebb and flow of a working artist’s budget over the years. Spanning decades of work, these archives invite you to explore everything from early world-building experiments inspired by deep space, to intimate framed weather studies and a private collection of playful pieces created specifically for my family.
Step inside the sketchbook and you will find the true, unfiltered evolution of my art. This collection embraces the fun of retro pop-art, the raw honesty of emotional graffiti, and the fundamental practice of foundational nature studies. I have also opened the vault to share my beautiful abandoned pieces, my very first attempts at classical oil copies, and even a few lost artworks from my childhood roots. Enjoy this behind-the-scenes journey into my creative mind!
Circular, Panoramic & mixed canvas grains
Circular Swan Painting. Oils on canvas. c2018
‘Meeting of Night & Day’. Horizontal panoramic oil n canvas. c2014
More from the Mythos
‘Weaved Space’, weaved card and Ink. c2000
‘Edge of the World’ unfinished Oil on canvas. 2003
Odyssey’, Oil on Canvas, c.2000. SOLD for £100 to a friend back then as she absolutely loved it! I too love this small (approx. 23x35cm) piece from the Millennium era. This is the only digital record I have, scanned from an old physical photograph I found!
Little Framed Weather Pieces
‘Under the Storm’, Oil on canvas. 2017
‘Over the Rainbow’, Oil on canvas. 2017
Artworks For my Family
‘Church with Daffodils’, Framed Midi Oil on canvas. Painted for my Mum. c2016.
Click link on Image here to see more in ‘Miniatures, Midi’s & Micro’s,
‘Kids Favourite TV Shows, For my Granddaughter’,
Oils on canvas. c2022
‘Olaf from Frozen’,
Mural wall art once painted for my children
Going Retro
‘Betty Boop’, Oils on canvas. 2017
‘Jessica Rabbit’, Oils on canvas. 2017
Mood & Attitude Expression
Locked Up
You Don’t Tell Me
Mine
What
At The Train Station
‘At the train station’, Oils on canvas. c2018
This non-infinito study captures that quiet, suspended moment at the platform, caught somewhere between arriving and moving on. It is a quick, atmospheric glimpse into a fleeting autumn journey.
Pencil Sketches & Watercolour Studies
Pencil Sketch Animal Studies
Funny Penguins, Watercolour
Watercolour Animal Studies
Bath University, 2001: A Week on Campus
Back in 2001, I spent an unforgettable week on campus at Bath University for an Open University humanities course (where I proudly scored 100%!). While exploring the gorgeous city, including a visit to the historic Roman Baths, I couldn’t put my sketchpad down.
Top sketch: Drawn live while sitting on a hill opposite the striking Bath University amphitheatre. One of the professors loved it so much he even asked for a photocopy to pin up on the staffroom board!
Bottom sketch: Drawn from memory in my campus room, capturing the surrounding university buildings and streetscape... right up until my signature narrative mythos inevitably crept back in!
Originally a course toward counselling, that week ultimately cemented my choice to follow my true calling: full-time painting.
Other Studies, Lost & Random Artworks
Multiverse sketch from Millennium era. Pen, Pencil & Ink on Paper
Work never finished. Lost or Painted over
Oils, in a canvas sheet book, a copy from a photo I saw online
A very rare and personal childhood ‘Easter Bunny’ from when I was just 6 years old! Drawn at primary school. My mum kept this safe for years because my teacher specifically spoke to her about my artistic potential even back then!
Click on Image to view more in ‘Juvenilia: Early Works & Roots’
‘Penguins’ From the Miniature Doodles Sketchbook
Hey God’ (Lost Work). I entered this into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2010, alongside another piece that I sadly have no photographic record of at all. A proud RA reject, it is all a necessary part of the artistic journey!
Early Practice with Oils on Canvas
Oil on canvas copy of ‘Rough Sea at the Jetty’ by Jacob Van Ruisdael. c1997
Thank you so much for taking the time to explore my Sketchbooks & Explorations gallery! Ending on this piece feels incredibly fitting, as this copy of ‘Rough Sea at the Jetty’ by Jacob Van Ruisdael was one of my very first oil paintings. It holds a special place in my archives as the starting point of my 30-year artistic journey. I hope you enjoyed this raw, behind-the-scenes look into my creative evolution and the raw canvas of my mind.