Andrew Simpson: A new painting and a discovery

Andrew Simpson: A new painting and a discovery: I have often wondered what the proud owners of numbers 2- 18 Wilbraham Road would have made of what happened to their homes sometime around ...

Andrew Simpson: Penny Readings, a Reading Room, and two libraries,...

Andrew Simpson: Penny Readings, a Reading Room, and two libraries,...: In the age of the internet who would want to go to a library? For a start you have to go there, and mix with a lot of strangers who are al...

Andrew Simpson: Chorlton’s Lych Gate .......... a collaboration be...

Andrew Simpson: Chorlton’s Lych Gate .......... a collaboration be...: Yesterday I announced the collaboration between Peter Topping the artist and me the writer. We decided to tell the stories behind some of h...

Andrew Simpson: Horse & Jockey stories and a painting

Andrew Simpson: Horse & Jockey stories and a painting: I doubt that any of the twelve men who assembled in the Horse & Jockey in early May of 1847 had any doubt about who was guilty of the murde...

Andrew Simpson: The Royal Oak .... the painting and its history

Andrew Simpson: The Royal Oak .... the painting and its history: Now the collaboration between local artist Peter Topping and me is well under way. He paints pictures of Chorlton and I tell the story behi...

Paintings on White MDF

Now creating Paintings on 7mm MDF. All subjects including animals, people, buildings etc. See Paintings from Pictures on facebook

New Techniques

Just an update to show you some of the new techniques I have been using to achive Watercolour and Oil paintings