Profile updated on site on 11 October 2008

Alan was born in Battersea, London in 1955 and moved to Walton on Thames in 1984.

He is a self taught artist and has a great love of nature, the countryside and the coast. He loves the way that light affects the same view in endless different ways and many of his paintings are of water especially the sea and the local River Thames. He also has a great affinity to Cornwall, where there are family connections, and he spends a great deal of his leisure time there, sketching and walking the coastal path.

Alan works mainly at home in the studio, although the start of his paintings take root from his observations outdoors, whether it be from a sketch, photograph, or just a feeling of being there. The painting then becomes a living body in its own right and is a response to the painter’s feelings and emotions of that time.

His work embraces a range of materials and techniques including mixed media, watercolour, acrylics and oils. He paints in a way in which subject, design and texture are combined to result in a painting that is stimulating and evocative.

He has achieved great success at the Club’s Annual Exhibitions which has seen him winning the Montague Webb Trophy two years running and he was recently elected Chairman of the Club.



Alan, as Chairman, aims to get more members taking part in the outdoor painting sessions (that were a huge success last summer) and to take the Club forward with more exhibitions thus raising the profile not only of the Club but also the talented artists within it.

Please click on any of Alan's work shown above to see a slightly larger view.

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