Thursday 03rd November 2016Stanley Burn Winter Show

I’m celebrating my first Christmas with the gallery open to the public by showing my new painting of Stanley Burn, Prudhoe. I am quite delighted at how things have gone so far, and as a direct result of opening the gallery, I have had my best year ever for selling my paintings, which has far exceeded my expectations.

Almost two centuries after Turner painted Prudhoe Castle and the Tyne River, I am releasing a new collection, led by a riverside Prudhoe scene of Stanley Burn, Prudhoe. I’m also considering painting a series of Stanley Burn watercolours in different seasons in the future.

The painting will be showing in the gallery alongside a Druridge Bay seascape; a watercolour of the North Pennines, ‘Green Door, Riddlehamhope,’ and a new Windows series print, ‘Cobwebs’. There is also has a range of prints, cards, calendars, posters, mugs and books displayed for sale, featuring my paintings - and several other original watercolours on show.

The gallery opened officially in March and I started working from there earlier. 2016 has been busy. I was invited to exhibit with the Royal Watercolour Society in London and sold my exhibition landscape. I was featured in a series of pieces on China Radio International and have been working on a range of interesting private commissions. Also, I teach painting in watercolour and oils to small groups of students in the gallery.

See the show in my gallery at 45, Front Street, Prudhoe – free entry, of course - from 28th November.