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Off to pastures new...

Swapping the Yorkshire Dales for Welsh coast and countryside.

It is time to bid farewell to Yorkshire, I have loved painting the barns, people, animals and heritage of this gorgeous county, but it is time to start afresh in Wales. I will post more when I have more news. I am delighted to say my Yorkshire Dales' work will still be available from @chapelgalleryhawes and my Richmond work...

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The Owd Lasses have got too big...

Lockdown 2 has prompted a change of home for the Owd Lasses

The Owd Lasses have flown the nest on Instagram and taken up residence at https://www.instagram.com/owdlasses/  there was frankly too much moaning about having to share with boring landscape paintings 'once you've seen one view, you've seen them all' cried, well most of them actually. I suppose they are townies at heart,...

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Donny Osmond declared his love...

Asked recently what inspired my Owd Lasses...

In 1972 Donny Osmond released Puppy Love and I was sure he had written it for me. A few years later still swooning about him, my Grandma announced that Grandad had met Donny at 'the club' and he had in fact said he loved me and was sending a specially signed autograph as proof.  I was ecstatic and bragged at school so...

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A new addition to our little...

I have a new companion who is taking a little time to settle into his role as studio dog. We rescued him recently via the fantastic Kelpie Welfare UK . He is a nervous but fun loving chap and is never still, so tricky to photograph. As with Ruby our kelpie who we lost in October he finds it odd that I should sit in a shed all day, often at a...

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Commission your very own 'Owd...

...immortalised on canvas they can't talk back !!

I have been asked if I do commissions of my 'Owd Lasses many times for retirement presents, birthdays  etc and have finally relented. I think customers get that these aren't portraits but more a wrestling onto canvas of the spirit of our treasured older folk, warts and all. So if you have an Elsie (or an...

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