Oak with window cleaners London Wall
Oil on canvas
24×34″
2025
£1600
(street view)
(Time Lapse)
I really enjoyed painting this. There are some details which I’ve found satisfying: In the bottom left corner a few white vans, there’s nothing white about them; The building is mostly clouds and sky but the detail of the office lights really adds to the picture for me; the burly little Oak poking up out of the street. Are there many Oaks in London? A true living tree space.
A few other things I really enjoyed, the shady side of the building that looks like a castle made of grey slabs and glass and lights and the window cleaners braving it out in their high vis. what a job, looking out across the city must be amazing.
Plane tree and workers on Old Bailey London
Oil on canvas
24×34
2025
£1600
(street view)
(Instagram reel)
(Instagram timelapse work in progress)
Brightly coloured cladding of a modern building barely visible in the shade at the end of the day. Square glass windows reflect the sky and a glowing golden hour tree. Older buildings jaggedly cut a line of masonry against the blue and pink sky. Gradations of colour from a sandy dirty yellow through to a purple/blue/grey. One of the windows reflects the rest of the scene somehow, sunlight, tree, buildings, all in one flash.
One of three more detailed paintings I worked on this year (2025). I painted this over a long time, again changing studio lights trying different set ups around my studio. Being able to look into the dark areas of a painting is really important to see subtle tones and variations.
Alder, Shelton St/West St/Monmouth St, Upper st Martin’s Lane.
Oil on canvas
62x88cm
2024
£1600
Shelton Street (street view)
I always felt that my paintings were a reflection of my perception of life (feeling>life>image>art/painting). This new tree painting splurge has become something else, a theme, and although I’m trying to pull as much as possible out of my theme it is also an unchanging issue; buildings, trees, trees, climate, health, political control, community, society, privacy. It may seem mundane but trees are irreplaceable within our current time and situation. They are a short-term solution for inevitable change and are only really a solution during that time if we take seriously climate on a personal and a global level. The list that pops up under this theme becomes expansive and we have to slow down to even notice. It’s a lightbulb popping moment. When we are aware, we’re in awe. Because what’s happening is something continuous, we’re unaware of it. I’m not painting a lobster, but maybe I should.
Bow Lane Plane
Oil on canvas
24×36”
2024
Bow Lane (street view)
£1600
Ducking down an alleyway and finding an immersive glowing tree scene, reflections, people and end of the day/evening business’ happening.
The Single Tree, isolated against the city backdrop – handsome, illuminated, enclosed, irreplaceable, magnificent glory.
A moment in a place. A mad equation. Time (over)/space.
A peak moment.
Time + place = moment
Nature enclosed, reaching for the light.
Space + Tree = place
Every inch is worth X and built on and sold. In many ways it doesn’t make sense.
A single tree, is not a forest but it can take you there.
Woo Lot Ginkgo
Oil on canvas
24×36”
2024
Lea Bridge Road (street view)
£1600
I find myself cycling back home past the Woo Lot Ginkgo often.
At night its neon signs glow green and light up the street. The same neon flavour as the food I imagine, neon all the way to a different place.
Neon, not an unfamiliar thing in Walthamstow, have you ever been to gods own junkyard? It’s a neon haven, sickly acid colours add to the flavours of street food and microbrewery’s at Ravenswood, it’s all local and ever changing.
In the daytime Woo Lot is like a gate house to Walthamstow, but looking more like an American diner and the Ginkgo holds the fort standing in as a palm tree. Another surprising pop of ‘other place’ on the Lea Bridge Road trip.
Triptych
Oil on canvas
24×36”
2023
Sumner St (street view)
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Think as Gaudi might: trees, water, structures, power, shape. As we try to live together with nature these small windows on to the earth show us where forests might have stood.
Cherry, Lime, Highrise
Percival Street (street view)
Oil on Canvas
24×38″
£1200
Branching out to some different ideas. How might colour and psychology work inside an image without literally changing anything? Altering the flavour but not the image.
Here, nothing is green and the visual elements might work together to form a new emotional geology.
Walking the streets nr Jimmy and the Bee on Goswell Road, the juxtaposition of these flats and this row of trees I felt like I was walking through the past. A kind of sentimental jarring sensation, somewhere between the 1960’s architecture, the bike hire scheme and the road. The lower down blood of the situation and the higher up ephemeral nature.
M25 Motorway Bridge
M1 flyover (street view)
Oil on Canvas
24×38″
£1200
I’m interested in the idea of bridges and how they cross otherwise inaccessible places, rarely are they for nature to thrive and although there are land bridges they’re rare.
Cannon Street Bridge
From upper Thames Street (street view)
Oil on Canvas
24×38
£1200
I’m interested in the idea of bridges and how they cross otherwise inaccessible places, rarely are they for nature to thrive and although there are land bridges they’re rare.
London Plane/London Bus
King Edwards St, Ldn (street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×16”
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Again, last year 2020 I went out in October around London Town finding trees.
There is a peak time of day, and year, where the sun is at its most golden. I’ve got a feeling that at some point I’ll catch the perfect moment and tree.
Lime
St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate.(street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×18″
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I’d been working on a detailed drawing for some time and then painting on and off for a year or so, this has really made me want to loosen up my painting, I’m also looking forward to painting slightly larger works.
Cherry, Lime, Highrise
Percival Street(street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×18
£300
Walking the streets nr Jimmy and the Bee café on Goswell Road, the juxtaposition of these flats and this row of trees I felt like I was walking through the past. A kind of sentimental jarring sensation, somewhere between the 1960’s architecture, the bike hire scheme and the road. Later, much later, I discovered that this block of flats was a style of architecture called Brutalist, although having now looked at quite a lot of brutalist architecture I’m not sure that this is brutalist at all. At the time I was just interested in it as a backdrop, warped and retro in colour with a salad of trees with fruity names lining the paths. Future and past collisions.
Clerkenwell Alder
Clerkenwell Close(street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×18
£300
Some of the pictures I take turn into collage, amalgamations, then prints, then paintings. I can only recommend going to find some lovely street trees.
Old Street Alder
Nile Street (street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×18
£300
The Alder, the Plane, the Lime, all great choices. To me they seem irreplicable, In terms of time, in terms of life, in terms of location.
Three Brothers
Ambresbury Banks (street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×18
£300
Ambresbury Banks, an Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest.
Wet autumnal felled Beech trees, so wet they’re reflecting the sky. I seem to visit these banks a few times a year. Thinking about which direction to take these tree paintings, with or without the juxtaposition of man and buildings. Here I seemed to find fallen trees and long twisting life made paths. These three, cut down and cut up. It didn’t make sense at the time when I was photographing but getting home and looking at the photos it totally made sense. The title comes from my two brothers. I take it personally.
Forest Path
Ambresbury Banks (street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×18
£300
Ambresbury Banks, an Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest.
Thinking about which direction to take these tree paintings, with or without the juxtaposition of man and buildings. Here I seemed to find fallen trees and long twisting life made paths.
Walthamstow Ash
Nr The Castle pub (street view)
Oil on Canvas
12×18
£300
There is a sense of community surrounding trees.
It would be great to hear your thoughts on that statement.
Plane
Nr Seven Dials (street view)Acrylic on Canvas30x45cmSold
Last year I wanted to pick up on a project I’d had at the back of my mind for years and never got started. I’d made sketches but not managed to take them into painting. As Autumn 2019 approached I felt my time, plein air painting, was running out. So I spent some time going out and photographing subjects which I thought might work. The plan was to paint indoors during the winter months from the photographs, this never happened!! THEN….lockdown!
I started painting. The results were not great, the photographs were not great, I learned a lot about setting up a painting studio. I’m continuing to think about this, the more technical side of painting. So, it’s quite an exercise for me, going through this process and still attempting meaningful work, It’s a combination of passion & skills.
London PlaneNear The Chandos (street view)
Acrylic on canvas
‘30x45cm
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An end of the day meeting place for rebels.
This tree isn’t going to last long in relative terms. It needs to be replaced by another. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago! To really own this situation we need to pay close attention to what’s happening to our London trees and to our woodland in the UK
Like the others – it grows up from the pavement, between the pipes and wires and drainage, between the road and building, above the rattle of The Tube but below the rooftops, occasionally catching the sun.
AlderNr William IV Street (street view)
Acrylic on canvas.
‘30x45cm
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I like the tree, I like the marks, I like the idea of the interior, looking through a tree, structural.
I like the individuality.
One tree. Some individual trees. I like what the tree stands for.
Anything next to, near or in a tree only adds to the beauty and symbolism of a tree.
A bird in a tree has no juxtaposition. A tree in front of a building is better, like a grid.
Walthamstow Lime TreeBeulah Road E17 (street view)Oil on board
8×10″
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This Lime is massive, it’s probably the size of four trees! It has about 3 trunks, it’s pulling up the pavement and is working on the fence. I would love to have one of these outside my window! imagine the wildlife and the wonderful shade during Summer.
Walthamstow Village Acacia
Orford Road E17 (street view)Oil on board
8×10″
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Where we were married in 2017. Our photos were taken on The Village Square and one of our neighbours designed the square! I love the Acacia Tree, so soft looking in colour and shape but with massive thorns! What a beautiful centre piece.
Tom Stallard 