The Rialto Bridge, Venice, with gondolas Baby Onesie

The Rialto Bridge in Venice, with gondolas and people walking across the bridge

I live in Manchester. I am influenced by L.S. Lowry and Arthur Delaney, Northern artists. My mother and sister also paint, and I have included some of their paintings. I started out as a naive-pictorial artist, painting nostalgic trams from the past (there is a gallery of these) and as I have developed, I have become more pictorial, but I still have some naive elements in my work. Recently, I have been concentrating on portraiture, and I look for a facial expression in a subject which is interesting and can demonstrate an aspect of that person's character and psychology, perhaps also their current mood. My artist mentor for this must be Rembrandt and I have studied his paintings, especially the colors he uses for wrinkles and lines around...