This morning’s work on my painting of Peter Ellis’ masterpiece Oriel Chambers #liverpool #art

Today’s cottage painting. After yesterday’s very high chroma piece, this piece dials the saturation down. The inclusion of an ornamental garden bench suggested emphasising pastel shades. Rather liking the wistful, ultra-domesticity of these pieces.

Cottages Acrylic and pastel on canvas 2026 61cm x 51cm Bliss.spoon.notion I’ve continued my foray into high-chroma cottage scenes, and completed this painting this morning. #liverpool #art

A painting done this morning of the St Margaret of Antioch Church on Princes Road. Built in 1869 by the celebrated gothic revival architect GE Street #art #liverpool

I’ve been working on this large painting of Port Sunlight cottages on and off for the past few weeks. I think it has now finally reached a finish. #liverpool #art

Queen Mary’s Drive II Acrylic and pastel on canvas 2026 90cm x 60cm Today’s painting is another view of Queen Mary’s Drive in Port Sunlight. This time looking at the houses towards the north end of the street. #liverpool #art

St Mary’s Drive Acrylic and pastel on canvas 2026 60cm x 40cm Continuing on from my drawings of Port Sunlight last year, another view of the houses of St Mary’s Drive, focusing on qualities of home. #Liverpool #art

I’ve been doing some more work on this weekend’s map painting of the area around Castle Street - adding and removing detail and intensifying some of the colours. #liverpool #art

Old commercial district Pastel and acrylic on canvas 2026 90cm x 61 cm I spent this morning finishing this large painting of the area around the old commercial district of Liverpool, focussed on Castle Street and the Town Hall. I like the explosions of colour and halo of neon pink #liverpool #art

Work in progress from today on a large new painting of the Town Hall and old business district in Liverpool. I’m rather enjoying these explosions of colour so it will be interesting to see how it develops - keen to keep the liveliness. #liverpool #art

Cemetery Lodge Pastel and acrylic on canvas 2026 61cm x 51cm The lodges at Toxteth Cemetery, designed by Thomas Barry and completed in 1856. I love their eccentric design and forest of chimneys. In this piece I’ve emphasised their fantastical, fairytale atmosphere. #liverpool #art

St Luke the Evangelist Pastel and acrylic on canvas 2026 61cm x 40cm St Luke the Evangelist Church, next door to Goodison Park - now home to Everton’s Women’s team. Outside the church is the Holy Trinity statue by Tom Murphy. #liverpool #art

Oriel Chambers Pastel and acrylic on canvas 61cm x 46cm 2026 Today’s first piece back in the studio. Oriel Chambers, built by Victorian pioneer Peter Ellis in 1864. It was the first curtain wall office building in the world and became the forefather of the American skyscraper. #art #Liverpool

I’m back in my studio today after 4 weeks away while we had building work going on. Feels so wonderful to be back - so by way of celebration thought I’d post a work in progress for today’s efforts. #art #workinprogress

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Iconostasis Pastel and acrylic on canvas 2026 61cm x 40cm The interior of the Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Toxteth. I wanted to emphasise the warm glow of electric light around the holy screen, contrasting with the cool winter light outside. #liverpool #art

Work in progress from this morning.#art

Spent most of today doing this painting the Old Throstles Nest pub and St Anthony’s Church on Liverpool’s Scotland Road. The pub is closed but the hotel rooms above are still used. #liverpool #art

I’m preparing this artwork for submission to the Dot Art 20 x 20 exhibition. The piece combines monotype, drypoint, ink and gold leaf on an acrylic plate. The 20cm x 20cm piece imagines a faded, soot blackened and fragile Victorian decorative domestic tile #art #liverpool

St James Church Pastel, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas 2026 44cm x 61cm For my first painting of 2026 I was inspired to have another go at incorporating gold leaf into a painting, this time combining it with a dense tar like black. Tricky to get the balance, but will try more. #liverpool #art

Another experimental mixed media monotype on acetate.

“KEOS” mixed media monotype on acetate To see the new year in I’ve been experimenting with working on acetate. This piece is based on my recent painting of a heavily tagged building in Dingle. #liverpool #art

Today’s painting is of the surviving stonework of the Liverpool Savings Bank and remains of its neighbour on Park Road. Street demolished for a council project that never happened.

Terrace fragment, Light on Pastel ink and acrylic on paper 2025 39cm x54cm A small group of terraced houses in Dingle. I have expressed successive unsentimental change and decay with layers of mixed media, smearing, scratching and scraping. #art #liverpool

Today’s painting of a graffiti covered lonely building on Park Rd is the first from my walk in Dingle. Its grand Victorian neighbours were demolished in 2017. KEOS is a familiar graffiti artist in Liverpool and has tagged the building in a few places - this being the most impressive #liverpool #art

We have friends coming so I got into the studio early today. This morning’s painting is of an old yard, which I saw yesterday on a nice walk through Dingle. The scaffolding gives the scene an air somewhere between renewal and despair, and my painting looks to reflect this. #liverpool #art

Today’s painting is of the St Philip Neri Catholic Church in Liverpool. The Byzantine inspired building was built during WW1 and carries that haunted age with it. I’ve been pushing my palette to capture the spectral quality I sense when I spend time with the building. #liverpool #art

Today is my birthday so we’ve been a bit busy doing fun things. But I did manage to do a bit of drawing too - which I’d been missing doing after a week at work. Today’s piece is of the Blackburne Arms on Catherine Street in #liverpool Georgian Quarter. An old favourite pub of ours. #art

The Abandoned Library, Everton Pastel and acrylic on canvas 2025 46cm x 61cm Everton Library was built in 1896 and the building remained in use until 2006. It has been on the Victorian Society’s list of the top ten most endangered buildings in England and Wales since 2019. #liverpool #art

Liverpool Cathedral from Grenville Street South Pastel and acrylic on canvas 2025 61cm x46cm From a winter walk exploring the waste ground on the south side of Liverpool Cathedral. The layers have contrasting graphic techniques and the cathedral backlit, heightening the contrasts. #liverpool #art

‘Wellington Assembly Rooms’ Pastel and acrylic on paper 2025 55cm x 39cm Liverpool’s old Assembly Rooms on Mount Pleasant are deserted and languishing on the at risk register for historic buildings. My painting emphasises this grandeur in neglect. #liverpool #art

‘Hope Street’ Pastel and acrylic on paper 2025 55cm x 39cm This morning’s completed piece is of Liverpool’s Hope Street and the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, completed in 1967. One of the city’s finest civic streets with great architecture from the 18th-21st century. #liverpool #art

“The Playhouse Theatre” Pastel and acrylic on paper 2025 54cm x 39cm The Playhouse Theatre holds a happy memory for us as one of our first nights out when we moved to Liverpool. I was particularly keen to capture the Young Frankenstein banner across the theatrical facade. #liverpool #art

“Nelson Street” Pastel and acrylic on paper 54cm x 39cm Liverpool’s Chinatown, centered on Nelson St, is the oldest in Europe, originating in the 1860’s. My painting focuses on the bright signage that characterises Chinatown, contrasting with the restrained Georgian facades above. #liverpool #art

SOLD!!! Thrilled to say this piece, based on the ruins of the wonderful Welsh Presbyterian Church on Prince’s Avenue, is now sold ☺️ #art #liverpool

“The bombed out church” Acrylic and pastel on canvas 61cm x 46cm St Luke’s Church was fire bombed during WW2. The burnt out shell was preserved as a memorial and landmark - known as the Bombed Out Church. This piece focuses on the apse of the building. #liverpool #art

“The West Front, Liverpool Cathedral” Acrylic and pastel on canvas 2025 (61cm x 46cm) This piece is based on a sketch I did last winter of the west front of the cathedral. Completed in 1978, the statue of the Risen Christ by Elisabeth Frink was installed over the entrance in 1993. #art #liverpool

A shot of work in progress for my latest piece, based on a drawing from last winter of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. #liverpool #art

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“Devonshire Road, Toxteth” Pastel and acrylic on canvas mounted on board 61cm x 46cm The terraced houses of Devonshire Road were built alongside Princes Park from the 1840’s. My picture highlights an elegant ironwork veranda on one of the houses. #liverpool #art

Porter Street Chalk, graphite and acrylic on paper 2025 55cm x 39cm Porter St is in the Ten Streets area to the south of Liverpool’s Stanley Dock. Each street is named after a separate commodity. The other end of the street can be seen in last week’s Waterloo Rd painting. #liverpool #art

“Waterloo Road” Chalk, charcoal and acrylic on paper 2025 55cm x 39cm It felt far too cold to go out yesterday so instead I have revisited a painting from last summer, the ruin of an early 19th century merchant’s warehouse on Waterloo Road. #liverpool #art

“The Parrot” Chalk, charcoal and acrylic on paper 2025 55cm x 39cm The Parrot pub looks to date from around the 1840’s and was once one of 200 street corner pubs along Liverpool’s Scotland Rd. When I walked the street earlier this year there appeared to be not a single one left. #liverpool #art

“Parkfield Road” Chalk, charcoal and acrylic on paper 2025 55cm x 39cm Another piece in my series loosely themed on Liverpool’s crumbling stucco buildings - all of which date from the first half of the 19th century. Parkfield Rd is a perfect hunting ground for this architecture. #liverpool #art

“Came a cropper” Charcoal, chalk and ink on paper 2025 (55cm x39cm) Number 23 Cropper St “Newington Buildings” was built in 1847 as a commercial building. The 3rd in my recent series of Liverpool’s crumbling stucco buildings, rendered in charcoal with acrylic applied in places. #liverpool #art

“Big Bowl Noodle Bar” Chalk, charcoal and acrylic on paper 2025 55cm x 39cm Warmsley’s Yard on Berry St dates from 1803. Shown in the wet and darkening evenings of autumn. I did a drawing of their non-identical twin at the other end of the block last spring - included here too. #liverpool #art

“Everton Barracks” Chalk, charcoal and acrylic on paper 2025 (55cm x 39cm) Vivid.drag.navy After some rather involved map pictures, yesterday I fancied a palette cleanser of a simple building portrait. The sepia tones and symmetry reflect the abandoned building’s classical roots. #liverpool #art