This series comes from many years of commuting from Sussex into London. Many times I was pressed against the window of a busy bus, in non-moving traffic, but when I began to see the beauty in the scene around me, a whole body of work opened up. Using my phone, I would capture the blur of lights reflected on the wet road, and passersby hurrying in the rain under colourful umbrellas, to paint from back in the studio. It’s not so much about capturing a likeness but capturing an atmosphere, a moment, in my paintings.

Postcard Art Exhibit inspired

The first painting was made for the Postcard Art Exhibit, formally Twitter Art Exhibit in 2015 in Norway, in which artists were invited to submit postcard-sized pieces in any medium for a charity auction. From then on, I’ve grown the collection, and also donated others to the Twitter Art Exhibit, New York, and Cheltenham.

All of the paintings are named by the place and time of the reference photo. As I look for more reference images, I’m drawn to the bright and colourful, looking for colours to offset the grey hues of the tarmac and pavement.

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The postcard series

Most of this series were painted on primed artists watercolour postcard