Easter Sunday sees Spring blossom in the churchyard at Wye, Kent, England

He skipped church. Dropped the F-bomb. Praised Allah. On Easter. You can’t make this up. The man tweets war threats while you hunt eggs with your kids. THIS is your president, America. Wake up.

he Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 2026 exhibition is now live to browse online: buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/ri-2026/ Featured is a detail from my painting 'Set in Stone', one of four paintings that I'm delighted have been accepted for the exhibition #watercolour @mallgalleries London

It sure would be nice if the 6 traitors on the subpreme court could see this.

Detail from 'Westwell Fete' #watercolour #portraits #Englishsummer #watercolorpainting #artistonbluesky #peoplewatching #figurativepainting #figurestudy #fete #families #summer2025 #watercoloursketch

Detail from 'Deckchairs with figures' based on sketches & photos taken outside Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate #watercolour #watercolorpainting #portrait #figurativeart #peoplewatching #groupstudy #lightandshadow #Englishsummer #Margate #deckchairs #Summer2025 #artistonbluesky

A watercolour sketch: Cafe couple (this is from last summer, not England in January!) #watercolorpainting #portraits #peoplewatching #lightandshadow #artistsonbluesky #figurativepainting #watercolour #Canterbury #EnglishSummer #coffee #cafeculture #figurestudy #sunshine

Bernice King has it absolutely right. We are facing a moral crisis in this country. And we must all act together to end it.

Detail from 'The Queue' a greyscale watercolour created for the Brains Trust charity (UK) art auction in 2023 #watercolour #fıgurativeart #portraits #schminke #lightandshadow #watercolorpainting #queue #artistonbluesky #figurestudy #greyscale #waitinginline #peoplewatching #peopleinprofile

Details from paintings & drawings created in the past 12 months, wishing everyone a happy and peaceful New Year #watercolorpainting #wolffcharcoal #figurativepainting #peoplewatching #summer2025 #florence #margate #kent #coventgarden #lightandshadow #artistonbluesky#sketching #lifedrawing

Detail from watercolour 'Deckchairs with Figures' #watercolorpainting #beachlife #lightandshadow #watercolour #Margate #seaside #holidays #artistonbluesky #figurativepainting #KentCoast #EnglishSeaside

Completed watercolour 'On Margate Sands' #watercolorpainting #EnglishSeaside #Margate #figurestudy #portraits #watercolour #figurativeart #Holidays #Beachlife #artistsonbluesky #swimmers #KentCoast #bathers #seaside #SummerHeatwave #lightandshadow #Sand&Sea

From the archive - detail from the first of a number of narrowboat portraits executed over the years. This is 'Dawn Chorus' #canalboat #riverlife #watercolour #portrait #narrowboats #narrowboatsofinstagram #artistonbluesky #waterside #bargee #canalboatlife #watercolorpainting #reflectionsinwater

Watercolour portrait sketches - selected bits from my figurative paintings. My attempts to suggest the look of a face using only a few brushstrokes #watercolour #portraits #fıgurativeart #faces #lightandshadow #peoplewatching #youthandage #artistsonbluesky #watercolorpainting #greyscaleportrait

Work in progress 'On Margate Sands'. Last hurrah of summer #watercolour #artistonbluesky #EnglishSummer #watercolorartist #Seaside #summer2025 #seaside #portraits #figurativeart #Kent #lightandshadow #holiday #swimming #coastline #Britishseaside #Kentcoast #Margate

Detail from a portrait of the narrowboat 'Hrafn', moored in the Potteries, England. A commission from last year #ThePotteries #narrowboats #watercolour #watercolorpainting #portrait #boats #figurativeart #MiddleEngland #LordVernonsWharf #VictorianIndustrialLandscape #MiddleportPottery

Pencil sketch of group of young people on the steps in Trafagar Square. This was sketched from a photo rather than from life #portraits #figurativeart #wolffpencil #peoplewatching #TrafalgarSquare #London #lunchbreak #charcoalpencil #artistonbluesky #figurestudy #pencilsketch #faces #studyofyouth

Wedding portrait commission (now delivered to client) #watercolorportrait #commission #weddingportrait #GreekWedding #portrait #watercolourpainting #artistonbluesky #figurativeart #WeddingGift #PortraitArt #weddingdress #olivebranch #figurestudy

Detail from a #watercolour painted a couple of years ago 'Out of the Shadows' based on figures observed in Folkestone, Kent #figurativepainting #peoplewatching #watercolor #lightandshadow #artistonbluesky #portrait #KentEngland

Sketches from life from cafe in @Canterbury #cafesociety #drawnfromlife #figurative #artistonbluesky#portrait #coffeeshop #charcoal #Englishcoffeeshop #conte #sketching #figurestudy

Detail from a house portrait painted a few years ago - Scottish farmhouse & estate #watercolour #houseportrait #portrait #scotland #landscapepainting #ScottishLandscape #artistonbluesky#watercolourportrait #forest #commission #forest #scottishhighlands #watercolorpainting

Detail from WIP Figures in a Heatwave #watercolour #summer25 #portraits #heatwave #fıgurativeart #artistonbluesky #watercolorpainting #walmerkent #parchedgrass #sunshine #lightandshade #figurestudy #KentEngland #peoplewatching

WIP 'On Santa Trinita Bridge' #watercolour #Florence #figurativepainting #italytravel #portraits #watercolorpainting #masonry #artistoninsta #holidayseason #sunglasses #artistonbluesky #Europe #figurestudy

Detail from Alfresco in the City #watercolour #London #pub #figurativeart #ArtistOnBlueSky #LightandShade #portraits #watercolorpainting #urbanlife #figurestudy #CoventGarden #watercoloursketch #LunchBreak #peoplewatching #England

"The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

*glancing around nervously Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 Middlemarch lovers together in a single online location!

Detail from 'Sunday in the Park with Phones'. Monochrome #watercolour #phones #scrolling #portraits #figurative #lightandshadow #Sunday #artistoninsta #cafeculture #watercolorpaintings #londonlife #cafesociety #V&AMuseum

Detail from a just completed watercolour 'Spring sunshine: urban pub garden' #watercolour #peoplewatching #portraits #figürativeart #watercolorpainting #Spring #londonart #pub #society #citylife

Detail from work in progress. Love groups of figures - these were eating lunch outdoors #watercolour #tonal #peoplewatching #figurativepainting #lunchbreak #lightandshadow #portraits #sunglasses #watercolorpainting #greyscale #artistonbluesky

'Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn' Snyder on the new US imperialism open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Spring sunshine here in the UK today. Here's a watercolour based on sketches & photos taken at a Broadstairs beach, Kent, last summer - families in silhouette against a sparkling sea #watercolorpainting #beachlife #watercoloursketch #figurativeart #Kent #seashore #EnglishSummer #holiday

5 years ago today - 23rd March - the first UK Covid lockdown began. I sketched the view from an upstairs window, showing the socially distanced queue for our village post office #lockdownanniversary #covidqueueing #coronavírus #pencilsketch #sociallydistanced #queue #drawnfromlife #postoffice

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour exhibition opens on 25th March at Mall Galleries in London, but all works available to see/purchase now via online gallery: buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/ri-2025/ #watercolourpainting #figurativeart #watercolor #watermedia

From last summer's sketchbook #coventgarden #figuredrawing #sketchbook #charcoal #figurativeart #portrait #artistonbluesky #peoplewatching #shades #lifedrawing

I'm really happy to have work selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Society of Graphic Fine Art respective exhibitions at the Mall Galleries this Spring. SGFA - 10th to 15th March. RI - 26th March to 5th April. #watercolour Details from 2 of the artworks below:

Reposting, because it's so important that people know about this... #neonicotinoids #cats #dogs #birds #pesticides

Detail from portrait of Dee, painted a year ago #watercolourportrait #skintones #portrait #watercolorpainting #artistonbluesky #studyinwatercolour #figurativepainting #lightandshadow

So happy to have two artworks selected for #sgfa 2025 exhibition @mallgalleries Here's a detail from 'Streetscape:WalkingwithShadows' and #portrait 'Annie' that will be in the exhibition #watercolour #figurativeart #artistsonbluesky #streetscape #lightandshadow #watercolorpainting #peoplewatching

Sketch in conte crayon of regular life drawing sitter - Sam. From a year or so ago #charcoal #portrait #lifedrawing #conte #drawing #figurativeart #artistonbluesky #sketching #favouriteartistsmodel

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Walking to the Beach - figures beside Folkestone railway bridge #watercolour #figurativeart #portraits #beach #watecolorpainting #lightandshade #summer @folkestone.bsky.social #artistsonbluesky #peoplewatching

Portrait of Annie (when much younger) #watercolour #portraiture #figurativeart #watercolorpainting #girlhood #stillastar

Jack Smith’s parting letter. One for the history books. Utterly shameful Americans have returned this man to office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Train cancellations (trees on the line in Kent) means I've had to miss the Van Gogh exhibition @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social Very disappointed. It's raining too! Here's a detail from a #watercolour created last summer. #sunshine #portraits #watercolorpainting #CoventGarden #figurativeart #London

Conte sketch still life - 'Ingredients for Christmas' #drawnfromlife #sketch #Christmas #Christmasfood #artistonbluesky #drawing #stilllife #contecrayon #charcoaldrawing

Memories of summer. A detail from 'Calm Sea with Figures' #watercolour #seaside #landscape #water #artistonbluesky #watercolorpainting #seascape #figuresinshadow #coast #Kent #Broadstairs #sand&sky

Here's my Christmas card for this year (though I send fewer and fewer each Christmas). Loved painting the sprouts! #watercolourpainting #christmascard #brusselsprouts #watercolor #stilllife #christmasfood #artistonbluesky #figurativeart #stilllifepainting #vegetable #ChristmasLunch

Archive posts - from the sketchbook. Scenes in cafes & an airport lounge, drawn in pencil or charcoal #drawingfromlife #sketch #charcoal #conte #portraitdrawing #portraiture #artistsonbluesky #cafesociety #peoplewatching #drawing

From the archive - detail from 'On the Benches: Broadstairs' which sold at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour exhibition 2019 #watercolour #figurativeart #portraits #Kent #greyscale #watercolorpainting #artistsonbluesky #peoplewatching #light&shade #figures