I began to experiment with acrylic paints while still at school, wanting to try something other than the school block paints. These first two have been painted using a palette knife.
Path by the Lake at Royden park, Greasby, Wirral
Above: The path round the lake at Royden Park, Greasby on the Wirral.

Below: The waterfall here can be seen just above the footbridge over the stream which flows down from Llyn Idwal, North Wales. It was painted on canvas (18″ X 24″) using a limited palette of ultramarine, burnt umber and white.
Mountain stream, Llyn Idwal, North Wales
In the paintings of Marple canal below stippling has been used for the foilage using a flat nylon brush which has been splayed through much use, and patting with a filbert brush has been used for grass.
Marple canal Marple Canal
The painting below is of the River Lune at Kirkby Lonsdale, however I have omitted Devils Bridge because I wanted to show the river receeding into the distance. I don’t know if that is good or bad, but I like the result.
Approx size is 18″ x 20″.

Below: The board on which this painting is on used to have a really gloomy print on it. I gessoed over the board and painted this landscape based on a view I had photographed at Grosmont, North Yorkshire.
Below: a very early painting of Worsley Packet House, done in acrylics, size about 10″ x 8″. And below that an acrylic painting from a soft toy, Winnie the Pooh!