About Me

Since February 2022 I have been occupied following the Invasion of Ukraine. It has stopped me from painting but now I am back painting and I continue to support Ukraine.

I have been to Ukraine several times and I have a love of the city of Kiev. It’s a proud city with roots evident in the buildings of many styles. It has been fought over so many times before but Ukraine is in trouble and as of December 2023 the “sane” world must double down with military and financial aid for Ukraine.

My wife Tanya and some of her Friends set up a charity in Scotland called Sunflower Scotland registered in both the UK (Scotland) and also in Ukraine. They collectively have been from the first days of the war providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Please have a look at their website and help if you can. Even just share their page.

https://www.instagram.com/aninatanya/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

Art and Heart

Health and chronic pain changed my life course however I have the steering wheel again. I don’t have all the answers, healthcare is a daily balance and some days I win others I don’t.

I paint primarily in Oils, Watercolour and Acrylic and I love to create large canvases with amazing landscapes and medium-sized still life but with no less interest.

My painting reflects the colour in my mind, from the calm cool to the warm, transparent to the opaque mixing in ways that I never thought possible until I started painting.

Soon thereafter I was able to see the varied details in nature that make painting a joy or an addiction, just waiting for a paintbrush. I like to create my paintings and through that, I hope that I offer people in a similar situation who suffer from chronic but not life-threatening illness that still alters a person’s destiny.  

Painting gives a chance to see that the reflection of the world is not just pain and a muted grey world, but life comes with multiple varieties of shapes, colours, moods and emotions regardless of physical and mental pain. 

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