I have become increasingly keen on architecture through photography. I enjoy many of the older architectural styles and especially rustic subject matter and this has inspired me to make this a real area of passion in my artwork. I explore this area through an increasing desire to make something intregingly creative and elegant for the wall. I enjoy commission work as much as my own ideas. I enjoy being able to create a portrait of your house to a study of your business premises. An impressive talking point in your foyer or boardroom. Currently I am exploring all aspect of buildings, from the material source through to individual details and grand frontage studies. In architecture I especially admire the skill of stone masonry. It is incredibly skilled and is three dimensional artwork adorning a building, showing real detail and lasting for hundreds of years. Sadly stone carving is a dying skill and it is unusual to see modern carvings of the same skill as those on many historic buildings. I hope in my work, to express my admiration for trades such as stone masonry which are now less apparent. |
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Stable Door, Bakewell A study of an old building entrance and window on Holme Lane Colour pencil and pencil - 42 x 42 cm |
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Five Arrows Hotel, Waddesdon This Elizabethan styled chimney sits amongst four on the roof of this delightful hotel situated in the village of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire and was built by the Rothchild's Waddesdon Manor estate Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 42 cm |
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Barn Gable 1 Three Shires Heads 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Hay Loft Door 1 Long Rake 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Barn
Door 1 Long Rake 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Cottage
Window 2 Youlgreave 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Church
Archway 2
Ashbourne 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm Original for sale at 'Jarva Gallery, Whaley Bridge' 200 limited edition print |
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Corner
1 Winster 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Corner
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Wirksworth 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Corner
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Wirksworth 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Cottage Door 1
Over Haddon 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Cottage Door 2 Wirksworth 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Chimney
2 Tideswell 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm Original for sale at 'Jarva Gallery, Whaley Bridge' 200 limited edition print |
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Chimney
3 Taddington 'Details from Derbyshire' collection Colour pencil and pencil - 24 x 24 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Osmaston Cottage A study of one of the finest cottages in the village of Osmaston, Derbyshire Colour pencil and pencil - 45 x 29.5 cm 200 limited edition print |
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Holmfirth Railway Station Built for Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Mid Victorian Gothic Style Opened 1st July, 1850 Extension work 1897 by J. Chadwick & Son Commissioned by Chartered Surveyor Stephen Hoy, this is one of his favourite local buildings Colour pencil and pencil - 70 x 50 cm Open edition print |
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Huddersfield Railway Station Built for Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Original Grand Frontage by Joseph Kaye Opened August 1847 Significant structural modifications from 1884 A second commission for Chartered Surveyor Stephen Hoy Original colour pencil and pencil measures - 102 x 62 cm 100 limited edition print  |
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Robert Holland Funeral Director A commission of Robert Holland's business premises in Grantham Colour pencil and pencil - 102 x 36 cm |
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Portuguese
Balcony A Manueline balcony in the town Moura, a town in the Alentejo (Portugal), which means Moorish girl Commissioned by a friend and taken from her photograph Watercolour - 32 x 45 cm 250 limted edition print |
Portuguese
Doorway The first of the two paintings in this series the door is a fine example of Manueline architecture which developed out of gothic and reached its peak in 1492 - 1512 Watercolour - 40 x 45 cm 250 limted edition print |
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Haddon
Hall This picture is to describe the detail of all the unusual chaotic medieval structure from the tower to the flagstones in the corner of this famous courtyard Colour pencil and pencil - 43 x 62 cm Open edition print |
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The
Cottage A more unusal commission as a birthday present of an owners property and all the animals, people, buildings and vehicles Colour pencil and pencil - 43 x 44 cm |
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