My Dad's Art

I went down south to Dorset to see my old man last week for a couple of days.

Always good to see him and hang out down there.

Anyway when I was down there I thought I would take some pictures of some of his artwork.

My Dad is a very talented artist in his own right.

(Here is a picture of him.......)

He is self-taught from a young age. Having never really got much of the way of art training in school, he decided to instead practice himself by doing copies of photographs and from doing studies from paintings by the old masters.

He worked most of his life at British Telecom as an engineer and then a sales manager. However when he had spare time he would draw and paint.

When I was growing up he started to get into doing Murals (wall paintings). These were always very impressive and he did back drop paintings for our school play productions … a large jungle scene for the school dining room, and a underwater themed design for Northampton Hospital’s children waiting room …  to name a few.

I will get him to send some pictures of them so I can scan them in and put them up in another post.

However, in the mean time here are some photos of some of his other works and some pictures of his new art studio he has set up at his house.

Most of these are water colour paintings. A medium he enjoys working in and is very skillful in. He also has done work in pastels and charcoal and pencil etc.

Unfortunately the quality of these images isn’t that great as the paintings were in frames and I had to take photos of them from my phone camera. They obviously look a lot better when you view them in real life.

These ones are of a mural he has done of a bookshelf theme for his hallway at home.

He always likes to add little points of interest in his murals such as the mouse and funny titles for the books in order to keep the viewer entertained.