Pastel and Pastel Pencil on Claire Fontaine PastelMat, image size 12" x 9" The reference material was from an old photo I took in Brittany at a lovely fishing port called Camaret-sur-Mer over

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Waiting for the boatman. Pastel on Vic Bearcroft velour pastel paper. Image size 7.75" x 9.75" Traditional Yorkshire Coble fishing boats moored in the creek at Staithes. Inspired by an old

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Pastel on ClaireFontaine Pastel Mat.  Image size 11.75" x 6.6" Talacre beach, Point of Ayre, North Wales. Inspired by the approach of storm Ciara.

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Pastel on ClaireFontaine PastelMat Image size - 13.25" x 9.25" I painted this as an exercise to try and see how close to the original oil painting I could get using Pastel. The original is oil on

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Pastel on ClaireFontaine PastelMat.  Image size 6.5" x 8.25" Boats moored in the creek near to Blakeney in Norfolk. The reference material came from some old photos I took in Norfolk in the 1980s. I

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Pastel on ClaireFontaine PastelMat. Image size 18'5" x 9.25". Memories of a lovely summer evening spent with some good friends in a very pleasant location on Anglesey.

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Pastel on ClaireFontaine PastelMat.  Image size 21" x 9.5". An evening view of the Clwydian hills looking south west from the moorland above Rhes-Y-Cae.  I never get tired of this view, even though

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Welcome to Poldark country. Holywell Bay near Newquay, Pastel on ClaireFonteyne PastelMat.   Image size 14" x 8" This bay was used for some of the beach scenes in Poldark series 2. Thank you to my

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Pastel on Claire Fonteyne PastelMat, Image size 18" x 10.5". I was given the photographic reference by my friend Chris Collins, she was out walking her dog one evening after all the tourists had

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I got the idea for this pastel painting from some of the sunsets and evening skies that I had seen both in photographs and on my various trips to Anglesey – one of my favourite places.  I wanted to

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