Out the Back Print

This is the alleyway at the back of the warehouse that my studio is in. One day it struck me that there was a poetry in the rough and worn structures, the house with moss growing down the side, the door with damp stains. The light was fading and the glow of the sky was reflecting off the puddles of water on the floor. For me it was a typical London scene, the kind of view that many would be familiar with. I set out to capture the mood of this in oils, applying rough impasto strokes combined with subtle glazes, to recreate the aged surfaces and diffuse glow of the late sunlight.