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A window can have so many secrets....if you look through one.

This picture is painted in acrylic paint. It was inspired after reading Virginia Woolfs book The lighthouse. She often uses windows in her writing as a symbolic device, characters can observe and reflect on the inside and outside world. She uses the window to look in on to the domestic setting. My painting looks into a room with a vase of dahlias on its windowsill. Dahlias were some of Virginia Woolf's favourite flowers.

Digital sketch, completed on a Samsung tablet.

This is a window I painted in my sketch book in Aigues Mortes , (South of France) using ink pen and watercolour. Aigues Mortes is a medieval walled city where there are shops , restaurants and houses and dates back to the 12 th Century

I was inspired by the contrast between the angular shapes of the window panes and the curving shapes of the ceramic. Windows are fascinating as the source of (natural) light in any situation. Thus creating the atmosphere in the room.

This is a photo of a window of a ruin in Ortigia Sicily. 

I was inspired to paint this picture while in Newquay as the hotel had this view over looking Fistral beach from the dining room. We could sit and watch the people enjoying the beach and surfing.

Our group was working on the project 'Light through the Window', and I was struck by the strong contrasts created by the sunlight.

Chelsea oil on canvas 50x40. Looking at the houses by the Thames, one can imagine a calm and cozy family life. Yet, just like the river’s swift current, life constantly changes. This painting reminds us that everything moves fast — so we must cherish the moments while we can.

This window is in St Alban‘s Museum in Hertfordshire and I was struck by the contrast between the plain, white walls inside the museum, and the colourful bricks and the busyness of the buildings outside the window. Painted in watercolour.

‘Window’ this theme made me stop and think , and the idea I can up with was: Eyes are regarded as the Window to the soul. : so here is my take on that .

This is a mixed print media piece based on images taken on a visit to America.

Watercolour and pen. 

A pen and watercolour image of an old metal-framed window, made slightly more 'cheerful' by addition of the vase of flowers.

Window shopping and dreaming there was a time.