A DREAM IN BLUE I started this piece with a promotional still of the actress Margaret Sullavan. Here she is recast as a Lynchian torch singer, a woman of mystery that may or may not have the answer to your quest. Or just fade back into a dream. Oil on canvas 71.5x51cm #painting price on request

Just a reminder for #filmnoir fans that there's a full size Laura painting 30x23" (76x61cm) hanging in my studio looking for a home. #noiralley #laura

Very proud of this one! And the drawing is ok too... Isaac, my son, modelled for me last year and finally got round to finishing the drawing, he's smashed a first in History since I started it! Isaac, 2026 Graphite and charcoal on paper 43x33cm #drawing #portrait

Getting longlisted for this exhibition in London is nice, I was in this last year and it was a lovely show.

Doom Towns The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing Andy Kirk & Kristian Purcell youtu.be/yfcEOQFlgQw?...

This 1919 school trip to excavate buried effigies looks absolutely like the beginning of an MR James story.

Drawing again.

Satin progress. #painting #wip

Rather pleased to be included in this! Showing in Hoxton in July/ August

Marilyn. Graphite on paper #drawing

…and painting on panel of that performance in L’Histoire d’Adele H #painting

I drew this a couple of years ago after watching the intense Possession, 1981. Isabelle Adjani is particularly deranged in this, and lots of current actresses have name checked this performance, though I prefer the more subtle madness she exudes in L’Histoire d’Adele H, 1975. #drawing

Sketchbook Hayez and Redgrave. #artist

A pen sketch of Vanessa Redgrave from the Devils 1971, #drawing

A bit of progress on another new one #painting #studio

This was a completely self-indulgent project, painting Gene Tierney as Laura. Available to buy. #filmnoir #filmsky @filmnoir.bsky.social @filmnoiruk.bsky.social @lukecinemawest.bsky.social Oil on canvas, 76x61cm

Work in progress, back in with the glazes of blues.

Pick a Bond From Photos you already have in your phone.

There’s still plenty of room for the picture to develop once the paint starts going on. I really must just do a set of large scale drawings like this, that stay like this.

Every time I start a new picture I intend to just draw a few lines and give space for something more experimental but at the moment I’m just really loving drawing at this scale so I get immersed in the process of measuring and and just ing, detail and tone. #drawing #portrait #workinprogress

Immediately made me think of this photo from 1954.

In progress. #painting

Close up. #painting #filmsky #genetierney

I’ve finished my version of the iconic ‘Laura’ painting, surely there’s a #filmnoir fan out there with a bit of a wall space. #cinema