Elderly Tom Courtenay

New sketchbook page. Elderly Tom Courtenay. Indian ink, acrylic wash and pencil on paper.

Two Engineers

New Painting. Two Engineers. Indian ink, acrylic paint, pencil and marker on paper.

Arthur Lowe

New sketchbook page. Arthur Lowe. Indian ink, pencil, marker and acrylic wash on paper.

Sunday Painter

Painting on a Sunday afternoon. Sketchbook in progress.

Francis Bacon

New sketchbook page. Francis Bacon, artist. Indian ink, pencil and acrylic wash on paper.

WH Auden

New sketchbook page. WH Auden. Indian ink, pencil and acrylic wash on paper.

Oskar Homolka

Small sketchbook page. Oskar Homolka (star of William Castle's film Mister Sardonicus.) Indian ink, marker, pencil and acrylic wash.

Leonard Rossiter

New sketchbook page. Leonard Rossiter. Indian ink, marker and acrylic wash on paper.

Philip Larkin

New sketchbook page. Philip Larkin. Indian ink, marker and acrylic wash on paper.

Terry Scott

New sketchbook page. Terry Scott. Indian ink and acrylic wash on paper.

Thora Hird

New sketchbook page. Thora Hird. Indian ink, marker and acrylic wash on paper.

Beryl Reid

New Sketchbook page. Beryl Reid. Indian inks, marker and acrylic wash on paper.

John Le Mesurier

New sketchbook page. John Le Mesurier. Indian ink and acrylic wash on paper.

Alec Guinness

New sketchbook page. Alec Guinness. Indian ink and acrylic wash on paper.

Elderly Dirk Bogarde

Sketchbook page. Elderly Dirk Bogarde. Indian ink and acrylic wash on paper.

George Melly

New sketchbook page. George Melly. Indian ink and acrylic wash on paper.

De Chirico in his Studio. Sketchbook page, February 2013. Ink, marker and wash on paper.

Kenneth More as Father Brown. Sketchbook page. Ink and acrylic wash on paper.

Cardinal opens School, 1970.

Cardinal opens School, 1970. Sketchbook page, December 2012. Indian ink, wash and marker.

Parish Group, 1964

Parish Group, 1964. Sketchbook page, December 2012. Indian Ink, wash and marker.

Mother Angelica

Mother Angelica and Bishop Thomas Toolen, 1961. Sketchbook page, November 2012. Indian ink, wash and marker.

Taste the Fruit

Taste the Fruit. Sketchbook Page, September 2012. Indian ink and marker on paper.

New Painting. 'Technical College' June 2012. Acrylic and Indian Ink on paper.

New painting. Acrylic paint, ink and marker on paper.

Detail

Detail

Two small paintings. Ink and acrylic on paper, 2012.

Summer afternoon in Bayswater

Kentish Town

Evening Sky over Church Street

The Surrey Canal, Camberwell (1935)

Birmingham with the Hall of Memory (1929)

The uncanny paintings of Algernon Newton (1880-1968). Perhaps the welcome rehabilitation of formerly unfashionable 20th Century British painters has already included the re-discovery of the work of Algernon Newton? If so, I hadn't come across this Royal Academician until recently.

On first sighting Newton's accomplished work looks extremely traditional. In technique and measured, tranquil composition they hark back to Canaletto. But take a look at the subject-matter. Newton was drawn to the shabbier side of London's and Birmingham's suburbs and canal-sides. So yes, these are urban landscapes but there's not a hint of human identification with the people of these areas. In fact people are generally absent and the viewer is presented with silent, deserted and brooding streets suffused with eerie nostalgia and uncanny atmosphere.

Above, a selection of Algernon Newton's urban landscapes. Apologies for lack of dates on certain pictures.

Two new ink and wash drawings.

The Neo-Romantic art of Keith Vaughan (1912-77). It's great to see more attention being paid to British painters of the 40s and 50s. The Pallant House Gallery will be showing a retrospective of Keith Vaughan's paintings next month. The exhibition will include some of his semi-abstract figure work of the 60s and the 70s. But its the mysterious and musty rural works of the late 40s which I've long been a fan of. Here's a small helping.

Three recent drawings based on Hebrew Scripture.

Two recent sketchbook pages, both of 'popular' singers, Johnnie Ray and Donny Osmond.

Sketchbook at Palazzola, outside Rome.

I'm currently in Italy and have begun drawing again...

Without drawing materials. I'm temporarily without drawing materials at the moment so before anything new is drawn here is a sketchbook page.

Change of Address Comic. Apologies for lack of posts recently. I have been busy moving to a new address. To celebrate/announce the new pad I produced this little comic.