This is Mylo and Poppy, a recent commissioned painting. These two have very striking eyes and I tried to capture them in this 10×8 painting.

and a close up of the finished canvas….

Here’s something a little bit different. It’s a slide show of photos taken during the painting of The Larson Five, a commissioned 30×20 inch acrylic painting on canvas. The slide show opens in a new window and it uses larger photos than the blog, so you can see the painting process. I hope you like it.

Watch a slide show of a painting in progress.

The Society Of Feline Artists show is on again in September. I have four paintings on show this year. Here they are…

 
In The Roses
16×12 inch oil on board

Sitting Pretty
16×12.5 inch acrylic on paper 

The Cushion Testers
16×16 inch acrylic on board

Clouded Leopard
16×12 acrylic on board 

The show is on at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, Waterloo, London from the 1st to the 20th of September.

Apologies to all of you who’ve been waiting for the new work to appear. I injured my back a while ago and it’s fair to say that has slowed me down quite a bit. It also means that I must ration my time sitting at the computer because I don’t have one of those beautiful, ergonomically designed office chairs. However I have been working, (slowly and carefully Rob – honestly) and I’ll try and get the new work up here very soon.

If I’ve forgotten to do anything for anyone please do email and remind me. I’m so behind with everything that I’m likely to have forgotten something somewhere!

Here’s my latest painting, a tiger taking a cool dip in a forest pool. I’ve painted this one as a donation for the Environmental Investigation Agency, a charity who, among other things, campaign for species in peril around the world.  See more about their tiger campaign.

This painting will go up for auction on the evening of Tuesday the 2nd of October at the Mall Galleries in aid of the EIA.  Here’s a close up of the painting.

With many thanks to Mike Vickers who kindly allowed me to use his wonderful photography as reference material for the painting.

If it takes your fancy contact the EIA and put in a bid! :-)