The council estate we grew up on in Bradford was quite rough but the good thing about it was that it was on the edge of a large woodland...

This is the 12th In my 'Strange and Troubled Past' series. 'Black Handkerchief' Acrylic On Canvas 40 by 40cm Between the ages of fifteen...

This is probably the most embarrassing blog post in this series I've had to write yet. I'm forty six years old so I shouldn't really get...

Charlie Chester I acrylic on canvas board 40 by 30cm No 12 in the 'Strange and Troubled Past' series (trigger warning: if you are easily...

This painting is from a very particular moment in time, things were not going well for my other half Bella and I. 2021 was a very hard...

When I was young I'd say I was generally liked by other children although I never felt like I connected with them and always felt like an...

80's Primary School Teacher, Acrylic on canvas, 40 by 40cm This small event changed my life, I'm not sure if it was for better or worse....

Recurring Nightmare 71 by 51cm Acrylic on canvas. Unfinished I don't really like this painting at all Even if I finished it, I can tell I...

'Thrown Out' Acrylic on canvas board 30 by 40cm There's not much of a story behind this painting, it's just a funny memory from a point...

My Dad was an alcoholic, I can't remember ever seeing him sober, he wasn't there that much when we were kids, though my memories when he...

'Stick To Road Lads' Acrylic on canvas board 16 by 16" The first part of my life in the late seventies, early eighties was spent growing...

'Dad Gets His Throat Cut' Acrylic on canvas board 20 by 30cm It's funny but when I started this series of paintings from odd memories, I...

'We Were Quite Poor' Acrylic on canvas board 20 by 30cm Have you ever heard the Monty Python sketch where the northern men are talking...

This is quite a tragic painting. It's the second in my new series based on my strange and troubled life. These days my life is great and...

This is the first in a new series I'm working on titled 'Broken Man', acrylic on board 20 by 30cm. It's a picture painted from memory of...

I wanted to do some work purely for myself, some art to hang on my walls that would bring joy into my rooms. Laughter is great medicine...

It's nice when you get a commission that's a bit unusual. The brief for this one was to do a portrait of the client in the style of Frida...