"First Vienna Defends", acrylic on canvas 60 x 50 cm

The oldest football club in Austria, founded in 1894, fight a rearguard action against London side Queens Park Rangers at the long since demolished White City Stadium.  Vienna were formed by English and Austrian Gardeners in the employ of Baron Von Rothchild who gifted them land to play on and the yellow-blue shirts of his jockey stable.  They now play in the third tier of Austrian football in the Hohe Warte Stadium, built in 1921..  No shirt numbers here - they were first worn experimentally in England in 1928 but not universally adapted until the 1954 World Cup Finals.

"Sindelar Scores," oil on canvas 58 x 57.5 cm

Matthias Sinderlar, "the Paper Boy," scores for FAK Austria Wien in the Wiener derby against rivals Rapid on September 6th 1931.  The Praterstadion, now the Ernst Happel Stadium, was erected a few years earlier.  Sinderlar's amazing life, career and death are documented elsewhere on this blog.

Former Airfield, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2011
A painting I did a few years ago, but never showed.  Please look in the Lost  Property section for more details.

Losterreich - My latest Austrian paintings……..

My latest paintings, this time portraying Viennese and Viennese based people who were either doomed (Harry Lime was a racketeer in classic British noir “The Third Man” which was filmed in Vienna),  forced to leave the city (Sigmund Freud fled the Nazi regime and many of his family members were murdered) or who left of their own accord (Fritz Lang in the pose of the scientist Rotwang in the 1927 futuristic masterpiece “Metropolis", who later left Germany for the USA.”)

Mural done over one a half days at Fir Vale College .  It was great to be back where I used to work with one of my colleagues.  The mural was done with help from students from Slovakia, Eritrea and the Czech Republic

Sheffield showcase January 2015

During January 2015 and again in September many of my paintings and prints were on show in one of the Showcase windows on the Moor in Sheffield.  They looked something like this....

Town Hall

Two paintings I have on show currently in a conference room in the Sheffield Town Hall....."Abbeydale Cinema" and "Tinsley Towers"