April 6th 2021 marks 40 years since the release of the album "Come An Get It" by Whitesnake. Here's the story of how I came to create that iconic album cover artwork. It all started early January 1981 when I got a call from an old music business friend John Ward aka...
This is my latest painting finished 25th march 2021. To me the Phoenix represents a new beginning a rising up out of the ashes of darkness and fear bringing new Light and hope to the World. Although there are many stories to the origins I was inspired by the Egyptian...
Back in 2003 I became fascinated by the emotion in the eyes of different creatures and so created a series of images based on the reflection of life within each creatures eye. The series included images of an elephant, a dolphin, a whale and a racehorse. Through The...
I have always been a big fan of Bob Marley, his music and the man himself. Over the years I've painted a number of images of Bob Marley. The main image of this post has sadly been widely bootlegged and reproduced all around the world. Bob Marley - Rainbow Countryman...
Back in 1983, I got entranced with an episode of the UK TV documentary Horizon called 'The Miracle of Life'. It was at the time of a big breakthrough in micro imagery. Scientists were able to film the growth of new life all the way from sperm to egg and all the stages...
In January 1981 l landed the job to do the cover art work for the Whitesnake album "Come an' get it". I was invited to meet the band where they were recording. This turned out to be Tittenhurst Park, the house where John Lennon used to live and recorded his classic...
A tribute to a great musician and beautiful human being, George Harrison. The garden in the picture is based on the grounds of George’s home in England. Half hidden in the picture is one of the Georges first guitars. The wooden throne seat was where its said that he...
This painting represents the fact that we, the human race, hold the future of the Earth in our hands and that if we don’t get things together we may drown in our own tears. The dolphins represent the spiritual side of our nature. I donated the original of this...
In 1988 I received a newsletter from Greenpeace International in which there was a photograph of a boat that was to sail around the UK to research causes for pollution and the decline in Sea Life. The sailing boat was called The Rubicon. History tells us that Julius...
In 1990 l watched a moving documentary about the plight of indigenous people living in the Raubfirest of the world and how their lives were drastically changed by deforestation. At first it showed these gentle tribes living in a spirit of peace and harmony, in tune...
