pastel – Artwork in Progress

Pastel Pier

With lockdown continuing on beyond what was the initial three weeks, as laid out by the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, attention moved to other past-times, including watching content from the streaming platform, Netflix. One of the recent additions to Netflix was the great musical film, La La Land, featuring Ryan Gosling and Emma StoneContinue reading “Pastel Pier”

South Parade Pier, Southsea

This chalk pastel piece was completed as Clarence Esplanade was one of my favourite places to go for a walk when I lived in Portsmouth. The seafront in Portsmouth isn’t like most coastal towns and cities. Portsmouth doesn’t have the traditional b&bs and seaside attractions that you often see in places like Bognor Regis, Bournemouth,Continue reading “South Parade Pier, Southsea”

Worker Bee Keeping the World Moving

This creation was done when we were about a month into the first lockdown. The lockdown that the UK public optimistically thought would only last three weeks lasted for three months. This piece was done to mark that although the human world had come to a standstill and had been stopped in its tracks dueContinue reading “Worker Bee Keeping the World Moving”

Sunset on a tropical island

This was the first piece that I created with chalk pastels after ordering a pack of pastels from Amazon. The piece is done on an A4 sheet of printer paper and is based on the tropical part of the globe that you were not able to travel to due to restrictions. The coronavirus pandemic sawContinue reading “Sunset on a tropical island”