I was recently asked to produce an oil painting of The Market Porter pub in Southwark’s Borough Market. Borough Market Borough Market sits at the south side of London Bridge. Records tell us that a market has been on this site since the 12th Century. However, there must have been (read more…)
Painting of St Martins Lane London (read more…)
I often get packed-off all over the place to paint a scene, but here I was only asked to take a very short walk down Bread Street to our local church here in Pilton, Somerset. The Church of St John the Baptist. I have painted the church before but this (read more…)
painting Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, featuring Le Cochonnet restaurant and Avalon Flowers. (read more…)
When I used to commute through London, I would often see an allotment from the train window. It was quite a modest affair jammed between the track and a row of Victorian terraces pushing from behind. You can buy a limited edition print of the painting here I love allotments. (read more…)
Many of my clients do a great deal of travelling to all sorts of exotic places around the world. OK, much of it is work related, but all in all, it seems pretty exciting. I often ask if they do any painting. They almost always say no. To me it (read more…)
A client saw a quick watercolour I did of Electric Avenue in Brixton on Twitter and requested a full version. As I trundled down the Victoria Line to begin work, it occurred to me that I have seen Electric Avenue in so many guises over the years that in an (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter, and you can enter the free draw to win this original painting worth £190 of Browing’s Pool, Little Venice, London This watercolour preperation study of Little Venice in London is 30cm x 17cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on (read more…)
I wanted to do a painting of a gardener in the middle in his allotment at the end of a growing season, poised with his shovel prior to digging up his bounty. You can buy a limited edition print of the allotment digger painting here I had an allotment myself, (read more…)
I was recently commissioned by KW Wealth, an independent wealth management firm, to help illustrate their rebrand. The background to the story… Recognising that the financial industry is fragmented and can often seem unapproachable, my brief was to capture the human face of KW Wealth. Almost all their clients are (read more…)
A previous client contacted me and asked me to do a house portrait of his new family home in West Sussex, UK. Although it appears to be a Georgian house, it is in reality, newly built. So new in fact that when I arrived to work on my initial watercolour (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter, and you can enter the free draw to win this original painting worth £110 of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, London. This watercolour preperation study of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is 26cm x 15cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out (read more…)
Two of my clients were looking for two paintings of Lymington for their home. They were not totally sure of the views they wanted, they had, however, a few favourites they would like to explore. After a brief chat, we decided to walk around the harbour area to discuss a (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original painting worth £130 of Quay Hill, Lymington, Hampshire, UK. This watercolour study of Quay Hill in Lymington is 23cm x 20cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on (read more…)
Earlier this year, we took a trip with friends down to Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence in France. I have not been to this part of France for many years and was really looking forward to it. Naturally, I took my paints, and managed to get a few scenes in as I (read more…)
A while back, whilst on my travels through London I noticed demolition work going on around Denmark Street. It appeared that developers had already knocked down a fair bit on Earmshaw Street, and behind the buildings on Denmark Street too. Even though ‘development’ is becoming ever more commonplace I have (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter, and you can enter the free draw to win this original painting worth £130 of The Vieux Moulin Hotel, Pont du Gard in Southern France. This watercolour study of The Vieux Moulin Hotel is 26cm x 17cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The (read more…)
I often get sent all over the place to do my commissions and I have found it near impossible to guess where I may be working next. Again, I never would have guessed that it would be Portsmouth in the South of England. I say this as Portsmouth is my (read more…)
I was commissioned to do an illustration ofThe Voodoo Doughnut bar in Portland Oregon for the FT Weekend Magazine. I’d love to say I was shipped over there business class to sit outside to paint the place on site with a few beers thrown in. Nope, it was painted here (read more…)
This print of Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London is 33cm x 40m, signed and numbered. The newsletter will be sent out on the 26th April 2018. I look forward to your sign up in the box on this page. I give away free paintings, drawings, exhibition tickets and prints with my newsletters. (read more…)
I posted a few paintings on Twitter recently of the work I did in Greenwich, London. These were picked up by The Greenwich Visitor Magazine who asked to do a feature on them. Naturally I accepted. Very decent of them. You can read the full article below And you can see (read more…)
In my last video, I painted in the sky of the Tate & Lyle Sugar Factory to give me a basis of the tonal values and mood I needed to work with. In this video, I will be working up the lines of terraced buildings in the foreground. See my current (read more…)
I was recently contacted by a client who has been going to The Glastonbury Festival for many years. The festival is vast, however, they explained that their favourite view of the festival was at The William Green Field and felt that they would like a permanent memory of it in (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original painting worth £180 of the Thali Café in Montpelier, Bristol, UK. This watercolour study of the Thali Café is 26cm x 17cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent (read more…)
In a great effort to stay with the times, and to deliver a clearer idea of what I do, I am putting more effort into video blogs. ‘Vlogs’ I am supposed to call them. I did a few last year, and I rather enjoyed it all so here we go. See (read more…)
What initially brought me to Maida Vale was a painting commission, though while there, I thought I would take the opportunity to learn a bit more about the area and to maybe do a painting or two. Of course if you are touring any area of London the first ‘stop’ (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original painting worth £150 of Lymington, Hampshire, UK. This watercolour study of the harbour in Lymington is 25cm x 15cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on the 22nd February (read more…)
One of the great advantages of my job is that I never know where I may be sent to work next. To some this may create feelings of anxiety though to me, it delivers a genuine sense of adventure. It is not as though all the places I get sent (read more…)
This painting of Charing Cross Road is available to buy here. In my painting, I have chosen the view of the junction of Charing Cross Road (left to right) and Old Compton Street (ahead). At the far left is Cambridge Circus with the Junction of Shaftsbury Avenue. This road running north (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original painting worth £150 of A caravan tea shop in St Ives, Cornwall. This watercolour study of a caravan at St Ives is 28cm x 10cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original preparatory painting worth £180 of The Chrysler building, New York. This watercolour study of The Chrysler building is 21 cm x 16cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on (read more…)
Hampstead is or was a village that sits high up on a hill overlooking London to the south. And to the North, which is up the road in my Heath Street painting, you will come across Hampstead Heath. A preserved heath land that remained remarkably unmolested by the developers. Aside (read more…)
This painting of Denmark Street is available to buy here I first noticed this scene of Denmark street whilst dipping through an alley way from the direction of Covent Garden. I paused outside the church of St Giles just by the Resurrection gate and saw the painting right in front (read more…)
I am having an exhibition of my paintings, prints and drawings in my home village of Pilton, Somerset as part of ‘Somerset Art Works’. It is located in a lovely barn, and overlooks the Glastonbury Festival Pyramid stage which is a bit of a change from the big city. Do (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original preparatory painting worth £180 of Cromer Pier, Norfolk. This watercolour study of Cromer Pier is 26.5cm x 15cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on the 15th September (read more…)
Earlier in the year, I was commissioned to paint both ends of Maunsel Street, a London Westminster street. I am fortunate in that I have a job that sends me where ever the client chooses. So just when I think I know an area pretty well, I get a commission (read more…)
I have been painting London’s architecture for many years now. I have always enjoyed running about the metropolis, noting its eclectic and often eccentric buildings, so I was most intrigued when a client called me up to commission a very large mural of London buildings for her apartment. I have never done (read more…)
BBC Countryfile Magazine contacted me again to produce another illustration based on using SmartPhones to track down, and conserve wildlife. Can technology bring us closer to nature? As a species, for the first time in our history, we have become networked. We carry phones. We check our status updates. We share (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original preparatory painting worth £100 of Shoreditch, London. This watercolour study of Shoreditch is 14cm x 16cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on the 18th August 2017. I look (read more…)
The online London tourist site ‘The Londonist’ contacted me and asked if they could do a feature on some of my London paintings. They were particularly keen on my London street market scenes. Naturally, I was happy to oblige. Once the article was done, they decided to do a (read more…)
Those nice people at LONDONIST, the very popular events guide to London decided to a feature on my paintings of London’s many and varied markets. “Artist Liam O’Farrell has traversed London’s biggest markets, immortalising them in his wonderful watercolours. Here, we see the markets through Liam’s eyes — some bustling, some deathly silent (read more…)
Since 2012 I am fortunate to live in the Somerset village of Pilton. Not only a beautiful place to live but also home to one of the worlds largest music and performing arts festivals. Thankfully I don’t have to do any camping out these days though I started going to (read more…)
I was pleased to be invited to contribute an illustration to July’s issue of the BBC Countryfile Magazine. “If you love the great British countryside and the great outdoors, you’ll love BBC Countryfile Magazine. Based on the long-running BBC One TV series, this monthly magazine is packed with the latest (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original preparatory painting worth £120 of Mousehole, Cornwall, UK This watercolour study is 15cm x 18cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on the 30 June 2017. I look forward (read more…)
My painting of 80 Camberwell Road, a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse, is being exhibited as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2017. More about The London Festival of Architecture The London Festival of Architecture was founded in 2004, and is now firmly established as Europe’s biggest annual architecture festival. (read more…)
A few months back, Paint & Draw Magazine did a article on me and my work. Since that time they contacted me again and asked if I would put together a tutorial about my work processes. I was delighted to do so. This painting is available to buy here You (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter, and you can enter the free draw to win this original preparatory painting worth £190 of Denmark Street (Tin Pan Alley), London. This watercolour study is 15cm x 20cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on the 25 May (read more…)
I was commissioned to paint this junction of Shoreditch High Street. My client spent many years living in an apartment on this junction, and wanted a memory of it. Today, it is party central with a bar, club, coffee shop or nightclub on every corner. Oh mustn’t forget the arty (read more…)
This month I am launching my YouTube channel. It is something I have been wanted to do for a long time and am most pleased that I have finally got around to it. I will be doing videos regularly so please do subscribe, and add the odd ‘like’ too if (read more…)
Sign up to my newsletter and you can enter the free draw to win this original preparatory painting worth £160 of Dalston Lane, Hackney, London. This watercolour study is 23cm x 13cm, signed and mounted on acid-free card. The newsletter will be sent out on the 27 April 2017. I (read more…)