A collection of short stories and paintings about me growing up in the 1950s in a railway town, Shildon

Traditional old scene from 18th century

Looking down across Robin Hoods Bay

Abstract flower in watercolours

A traditional watercolour landscape, showing how to paint a river scene.

The little stream running down the side of Ambleside'

The Angel of the North painted with limited colours.

The beautiful Annecy in the French Alps painted in watercolours.

Watercolour of Lake District

This is the footpath towards Prebends Bridge in Durham, in watercolours.

Two versions of this scene on different papers. The darker on is Fabriano smooth and the lighter one is Arches Rough. To finish off with pastels and pencils.

Two Autumn scenes in watercolour

A Paris cafe on an autumn evening.

A Lancaster bomber and it's crew returning from a mission.

Watercolour of Bamurgh early morning.

Trying out watercolours on new artboard proved frustrating as colours just floated on the top of the surface. Have another board still so will try something else.

Snow on the Northumberland Coast.

This is a street scene in Barcelona. Learn how to do loose washes and quick figures.

Watercolour

Winter in Bibury, the Cotswolds

Watercolour of trees in the park.

The Blue Peter Inn at Polperro.

Watercolour

A small boat in Croatia resting on the clear waters, painted in Impressionist style.

Boats on beach with reflections

Watercolour of Bourton on the Water in The Cotswolds

This is a loose watercolour showing you how to paint a street scene.

Watercolour painting of Bruge and it's narrow waterways.

Busking in the streets at night

Pen and Ink drawing with watercolour wash.

Large abstract watercolour of Camillias

Canal boat being pulled by a horse.

This busy market is a mixture of pastels and watercolours to achieve the bright colours of the costumes.

A traditional Cotswold watercolour

Watercolour in Chinese style

Blossom and birds in Chinese style

Sheep on winter's night at Christmas

This is in three sections

Three Christmas Card Designs including Butter Market, Park Gates, and a bonus sheep.

Watercolour for Christmas card

Skaters outside the chapel in Bishop Auckland Castle grounds.

Children playing in snow

Central Park, New York at Christmas

Great watercolour of Cley Mill on the Norfolk Broads.

The magnificent cliffs of Ireland'a West coast

Corbiere on Jersey in watercolours.

An old boat in the harbour at Corfu Town

This is a watercolour of a cafe in Corfu Town.

Corfu Town Cafes overlooking harbour

Customers sheltering from the strong sunshine in Corfu.

Cafes on the sea in Corfu Town.

Nestling above Corfu Town these delightful pots decorate the cafe steps.

A delightful corner restaurant on the steps in Corfu Town.

Loose watercolour of Corfu Town street.

A traditional watercolour of an English water mill. How to paint trees.

Croxdale Bridge in Durham as a Watercolour

Country Lane in County Durham

A Dales farm in winter showing how to paint snow. Tip, you don't need to, just leave the paper.

Watercolour

Winter's evening looking toward Dean and Chapter pit.

Dinan in Brittany painted in watercolour then coloured pencils and ink used for detail.

Watercolour washes over pen and ink drawing

Watercolour of Maya, finished off in coloured pencils

Children drinking from fountain.

Choristers playing on the snow in front of Durham Cathedral.

Proud Durham Miners carrying their banners through Durham

Watercolour of Eileen Dolan Castle

Traditional watercolour of Eileen Donan Castle. This lesson is taken from my studio workshop so there will be additional background sounds.

Portrait of Elvis in watercolours.

Eze is a small village in the hills behind Menton in the south of France. This is a loose watercolour at the top of the steps.

Little boy feeding ducks

Rough seas on North Yorkshire coast

Watercolour of Flamborough Head on the North Yorkshire coast.

A mixed media painting.

Constable's Flatford Mill in Watercolours

A loose watercolour of flowers

Flower arrangement.

Flying Scotsman in landscape

4 watercolours

Testing the new Italian paints from Halo

Looking out through the garden gate in watercolours

Traditional Geisha Art

Watercolour with coloured pencils and ink.

Gondoliers in Venice jam

Boy and Grandad on a fishing trip

Busker in Watercolours

Nelson's flagship HMS. Victory on patrol off French waters.

Highland cow in winter

Holy Island off North East Coast

Watercolour

Watercolours of Honfleur at a special price.

Two delightful cafes drawn with Pen and Ink then finished using watercolours

Honfleur Cafe on the edge of the harbour in Honfleur, showing how to paint figures.

Two delightful Cafes drawn in Pen and Ink then finished with watercolours

A full watercolour of Iona.

Watercolour of Irises in a vase 

A cafe in Tuscany

Mixed Media

This is Jimmy busking outside our gallery last Saturday. This quick watercolour was to catch the movement and feel of the music that day.

The River Wear with Bishop Auckland palace behind.

Keswick lakeside in watercolours

A wintry scene at Castlerigg above Keswick.

This beautiful Kingfisher diving down to the water.

Part One of this watercolour of Lake Windermere.

Lake District's Langdale Pikes in Winter

Little boy fishing in watercolours.

Paris Cafe Series

Watercolour of Lillies using Coloured pencils to detail.

A painting done in a cartoony way.

Photo by our gallery friend Peter Haygarth. Pen and Ink then finish with watercolours.

Loose watercolour of street scene in Lisbon.

Two video lessons of Lisbon at a special price.

A loose watercolour of a Lisbon Tram Part One

A traditional watercolour of Loch Shiel in Scotland

Learn how to paint watercolours in a loose style.

Watercolour of Lorton Valley

Low Force falls in Teesdale.

Watercolour painting of Low Force Teesdale.

Two loose watercolours at a special price

A loose watercolour featuring the Jacaranda trees in Madeira

Loose watercolour of a tram passing through Soler.

Famous racehorse in delicate watercolours

Winter's evening in a back street pit village.

A moody watercolour of Brooklyn

A loose watercolour of Menton on the French Riviera.

A pen and ink of Menton roof tops finished in watercolours

Nearly 170 pages of watercolour demonstrations and articles on materials, this book will help you in your paintings and lift your work to a higher level.

New York Cabs waiting in the rain.

Painting rainy streets in NY. With bonus Winter Trees,

Watercolour with Gouache

Evening on the quayside

First part of the Nice watercolours

A loose watercolour of the Old Town area in Nice.

A free hand pen and ink drawing of a square in the old Nice town, finished off with watercolour washes.

Watercolour of Norfolk Cottage

2 watercolours to demonstrate new range of granular pigments.

six watercolour skies

This full course shows how to draw a Nyala head in pen and ink, then finish with watercolours. It is over 4 hours long.

Two delightful cafes drawn in pen and ink then finished with watercolours

Pen and ink of a Paris Cafe in 3 videos Parts one and two are the drawing with part 3 being the painting.

Creating reflections with limited palette.

Watercolour and Pastel

A colliery back street scene

Wet streets painting of High Petergate, York. How to paint reflections.

Pen and ink washes at special price

Christmas at Notre Dame

This video course will show you how to complete this watercolour in 20 individual  stages.

An Impressionist style of a Paris winter

Penguins on the march.

Waters melting in spring sunshine.

Watercolour and coloured pencil study.

Playing Pétanque in St. Paul De Vence

Watercolour

Snow scene with Pheasants on the ground.

Early morning ploughing

This watercolour is broken into 5 videos with over 9 hours of lessons.

Watercolour wash with a pen and ink drawing.

Isle of Skye

Positano on The Amalfi Coast, Italy

A very loose watercolour of Prague

Watercolour

A charming watercolour of lavender farm in Provence.

Watercolour

A quirky pen and ink with loose watercolours

A quirky pen and ink with loose watercolour

A pen and ink wash

A quirky pen and ink drawing of Venice with watercolour washes.

Watercolour of deer at Ray Castle

Watercolour of Racing Yachts

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In this course we will cover 8 famous artists and their famous paintings, from Van Gogh to Degas. Each week we will create one of their famous paintings using their style and materials. At the end of the course we will have a session where you can display your paintings.

Remembering The Fallen

Tommy from Seaham for Remembrance Day.

A new range of colours from Winsor and Newton called The Revival Collection.

View across to Dunstanburgh Castle

A subdued watercolour of Robin Hood's Bay.

Sunny morning walking down to the sea. Loose watercolour to create a sense of light.

A robin in watercolours and coloured pencils

Children playing below Robin Hood's Bay Cliffs

A watercolour of The Big 0

Runswick Bay on the North Yorkshire Coast as evening falls.

The beautiful town of Rye in East Sussex.

Streetcars at night

Sandsend on Yorkshire coast

A pen and ink drawing of this cafe finished in watercolours.

Walking near Sunderland Bridge in early autumn.

Seville Cafes in the sun.

Tha main square in Seville

Shields ferry on the River Tyne.

Have you ever looked at photographs from your childhood and thought, 'they don't create the emotions I felt at the time'. Well so did I, apart from the fact lots of those photos vanished over time, I wanted to tell my story to hand to my children and grandchildren to see my life as it was when I was young. So I set about painting quick sketches from my memories putting it all down on paper, just as I remembered t...

Lovely watercolour of Skipton

Isle of Skye with boats

The Isle of Skye

Loose watercolours of Scottish Isles.

Daytime and evening views of a winter landscape

A loose style watercolour of Soler in Majorca

Painting of Solar, Majorca in a loose style using watercolours.

Souter Lighthouse Sunderland

Watercolour Photo by Jonathan Ridley

A loose watercolour of narrow streets in Split, Croatia.

The Singer Sewing machine works in St. Petersburgh, now a cafe.

Cornish watercolour

The White House on St. Ouens Bay Jersey

St. Paul de Vence shadows

Loose watercolour of this French village above Nice.

A busy corner in St. Paul De Venice, Southern France

A watercolour with coloured pencils and ink. From a photo by Bryan Walker.

A loose watercolour featuring Staithes beach.

Early morning at Staithes

A quirky pen and ink with vibrant colours

A loose watercolour demonstration down our gallery.

The main railway viaduct across Durham

Steam engine passing through Bishop Auckland

Watercolour of Stockholm side street.

Watercolour

A loose watercolour of a sunflower

Three watercolour sunsets

Watercolour

Evening Sail

A loose watercolour of Tallinn in Estonia using strong washes.

Two full length video lessons on painting Tallinn in watercolours.

watercolours of Teesdale

Paint this snow scene in watercolours from an original video lesson from my art classes.

Watercolour

Loose watercolour of barges and their reflections

Thames barges approaching the Tower Bridge.

Thames Barges

Dusk on the River Thames early 1900s.

Traditional watercolour of a thatched cottage.

A loose sketch of street artist in Venice

The Bailey and Owengate

3 young blue tits peering out.

Pub mentioned in Tayler Swift album

A cafe in Ghent.

Spennymoor Chip Van

A loose watercolour on the streets of New York.

A lone cowboy surveys the landscape

Tango Dancers

A loose watercolour painting light.

Marching to London for justice.

Watercolour of these famous statues.

A quick sketch to commemorate Her Majesty's Jubilee

This watercolour shows how to paint children.

A Christmas card featuring the Sycamore tree in Northumberland

A traditional watercolour

Evening on the Tees Estuary.

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The Theatre Royal Newcastle on a rainy night.

From a photo taken by Peter Haygarth.

The late great Tina Turner in watercolours.

Traveller's Campsite

Stone steps leading up to Tuscany house.

Ullswater watercolour

Upper Teesdale in Winter

Start with watercolours then detail with pencils

A detailed watercolour of Venice.

Evening across Venice

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This delightful watercolour is of a small courtyard.

Gondolas at rest in Venice

Loose Watercolour of Venice

Light on the water.

Two watercolours of Venice at a special price.

Busker on the violin.

Watercolour

Traditional Watercolour

This photo is just a guide for the actual painting.

Watercolour of one of the old narrow yards on the harbour, Whitby

Evening in Whitby at low tide.

A loose pen n ink with quick washes

Watercolour of Whitby's 199 steps.

Dusty window with glass jar and old book.

Winter watercolour

Watercolour painting of snow

Loose watercolour of a wintry scene.

Setting sun over frosty landscape

Evening watercolour.

There are two paintings of winter trees in watercolour and pastel, I suggest you paint both at the same time swapping around as one painting dries.

Along the old railway line from Bishop Auckland to Byers Green.

Watercolour

Painting on Japanese Yupo paper with watercolour.