Exhibiting in the elected Members and Associates exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' Gallery, Brook Street, Birmingham

I am exhibiting 3 landscape paintings in this exhibition.

 I've been having a lot of fun working with oil paint mixed with some cold wax medium.  This gives it texture and it is possible to work with transparent layers to create depth. I've also embedded slate dust and raw pigment into some of the paintings, including of the Honister Pass in the Lake District.

This painting conveys the atmosphere of a beautiful, Autumn day in the Lake District. The sky is grey, it has been raining and the colour of the mountains is muted. Then, a moment of excitement as the sun breaks through illuminating the more distant fell. There is a sublime splash of colour. The burnt sienna of the bracken and the light slope next to it are revealed.

Honister Pass - Lake District

Hedgerow

Late afternoon

The exhibition is on from 16 November to 6 January 2024, 4 Brook Street, St Paul's Square, B3 1SA

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' gallery

My first trip into an art gallery since lockdown

 I visited the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' gallery in the Jewellery Quarter today. It was my first venture into a gallery since lockdown.  It felt safe, spacious and both other visitors and the staff were wearing masks.

Celebrating 20 years at the RBSA’s current location in the Jewellery Quarter, the RBSA Anniversary Exhibition brings together Collection Acquisitions from the last 20 years alongside artwork by current RBSA Members and Associates.

In April 2000, after being based at New Street in Birmingham since 1829, the RBSA relocated to the current gallery just off St Paul’s Square.

It's an exhibition well worth visiting if you can, or it is available to view online.

Outside the RBSA today in lovely sunshine.  People were stretching out and having coffees sitting in St Paul's Square opposite.

With Garden of Wisdom woodcut in Gallery 1.

In Gallery 2 with my etching Homed and Homeless - I took my mask off for a moment for the photo as no-one else was in that gallery at that time.

There are two solo shows on the ground floor as well as a range of stylish, inexpensive jewellery, greetings cards, ceramics and other small pieces which would be ideal for gifts.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' elected Members and Associates exhibition opens Thursday 21 November. Private View 6-8pm

I'm exhibiting two pieces in this exhibition which opens tomorrow in the RBSA Gallery, St Paul's Square, Birmingham.

All welcome to the private view 6-8pm.

I'm exhibiting two pieces.   One is an oil painting 'Across the plain at Ronda' inspired by a week sketching there in July.The other is an etching entitled, 'Moon and Magnolia' inspired by seeing my magnolia tree at 3 am on a moonlit night.

Currently showing At the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' gallery, St Paul's, Birmingham until 24 December 2018.

I'm currently exhibiting these two at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artist's Gallery in St Paul's Square, on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, as part of the RBSA Members and Associates Exhibition - finishes 24 December.

Dark cliff - oil painting 

Snowfall Birmingham - etching and aquatint