Colchester, 15 September 2015 The house and office move mentioned in the Preface to my first book was completed relatively painlessly as these things go, although the unpacking and decluttering took longer than I had…
Colchester, 2 Jun 2015 As prefigured in a previous post, the Battle of Britain Day ‘big picture’ I was working on in February has duly appeared across two full pages in the Official Royal Air Force Memorial…
High Wycombe, 12 May 2015 I am delighted to present my first book drawn from my growing collection of Flight Artworks: 32 pages, available now in printed and e-book versions. It contains captions, commentary and…
High Wycombe, 10 May 2015 Apart from all that spring stuff the month of May brought with it issue 16 of History Revealed magazine – whose cover features one of my Flight Artworks aircraft. The Spitfire was…
Just a quick update that follows on from the picture I wrote about in January. It was commissioned by Kev Ruane to take to the unveiling of a memorial in a small town in Austria,…
High Wycombe, 16 Feb 2015 My latest picture portrays some 128 separate aircraft on what we now know was a decisive day: 15 September 1940. The picture, which I have been working on for much of…
High Wycombe, 30 Jan 2015 There is an interesting story around all the pictures I get asked to make, but it is usually about the original circumstances that are being portrayed. In the case of this…
High Wycombe, 2 Dec 2014 I was standing next to a World War Two Spitfire while one of the few modern pilots lucky enough to have flown it recounted how the engine had emptied of oil…
High Wycombe, 6 Nov 2014 Ever jump to conclusions? What do you make of the picture above: Spitfires escorting Lancasters? (available via this link). A typical first response from people who see it is “Cool picture…
High Wycombe, 24 Apr 2014 When I am making pictures I need to know what various details of an aircraft look like in order to portray it correctly, and for that nothing beats being able to…
High Wycombe, 31 Jan 2014 These pictures began life at an airshow. I did not set out with the idea of making a ‘Phoney War’ picture, let alone two – in fact I knew little about…
High Wycombe, 6 Jan 2014 A Happy New Year. I wonder what 2014 will bring? Well, for one thing, the 70th anniversary on 6 June of D-Day. I have been concentrating in recent months on…
Ah, the magic of flight High Wycombe, 27 Sep 2013 Most – though not all (as we shall see) – are taken from on board aircraft. Yes fellow passengers, I am that sad soul who craves…
High Wycombe, 13 May 2013 It ranks in certain quarters as possibly the most daring and audacious operation the RAF carried out during World War II. But when I asked American and German friends ……
High Wycombe, 4 Apr 2013 You can imagine my delight at selling no fewer than three pictures in one go to a single buyer. This was only heightened when, shortly afterwards, someone wrote on my Facebook…
High Wycombe, 12 Feb 2013 Someone saw this picture on Facebook and asked what the yellow diamond shape was on the port wing. A gas detector patch. His further comment prompted me to write this…
High Wycombe, 1 Feb 2013 Seeing this picture in my Dambusters series several people queried – or challenged – the fact that I have the lights pointing off to the right of the aircraft. So I thought…
High Wycombe, 11 Jan 2013 I have been remiss in updating the blog but that is partly because I’ve spent time getting a Flight Artworks page on Facebook off the ground. It has accrued some 200…
High Wycombe, 27 Sep 2012 Alongside my regular photography, taking in trips to the North East, the sailing Olympics in Weymouth and the Edinburgh Fringe, I’ve recently been putting a lot of effort into my…
High Wycombe, 18 February 2012 What does a spinning aircraft propeller look like? You’re thinking I’m daft. Anyone who’s ever seen even an office fan knows what a spinning prop looks like. Right. It’s just…