The works selected concentrate mainly on my portraits, and also show some of my still life,  landscape and life-study painting and drawing.

The plan is to gradually include more works, and to add further supplemental material to this website.

Please feel free to add comments or give us feedback if you discover any inconsistencies, or need more information from me.

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George J.D. Bruce, London

We see the world around us in forms, texture and colour.

To best express what we are looking at in terms of say, drawing or painting, we need to see or learn to observe and understand the structures of those forms.

Title/Subject: Admiral Michael Harris
Date: 2001
Medium: Oil
Description/Notes:
Rear Admiral Michael G.T. Harris was a Royal Navy officer who was the captain of HMS Cardiff during the Falklands War. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 May 1963, lieutenant-commander on 1 May 1971, and retired on 3 April 1992. [Source: Wikipedia]

Commissioned by the Clothworkers’ Company.

Title/Subject: The Right Honorable The Lord St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL
Date: 1996
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: Royal Society of Portrait Painters • Not exhibited
Description/Notes:
Norman Anthony Francis St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL (born 18 May 1929), is a British Conservative politician, author, constitutional expert and barrister. His surname was compounded from his father’s (Stevas) and mother’s (St John-O’Connor) surnames.

Title/Subject: Jimmy Shand Esq, MBE
Date: 1995
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: 1996: Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Description/Notes:
Sir James Shand MBE (January 28 1908 — December 23 2000) was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. [Source: Wikipedia]

Described as the “Grand old man of Scottish dance music” and “The famously diffident accordion maestro”, Jimmy Shand was awarded the M.B.E. A trust fund initiated and set up by the earl of Elgin and Kincardine which received worldwide support has paid for the portrait to honour one of Scotland’s greatest musicians. This painting is now part of the Scottish national collection and we are most grateful for the loan by the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland.
[Source: RSPP Catalogue 1996]

Title/Subject: John Pendower Esq., Dean, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, 1989-1993
Date: 1995
Medium: Oil
Exhibited: 1995: Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Description/Notes:

This is a relaxed, comfortable portrait of a highly distinguished medical man. He seems at peace with the world and enjoys being painted. The way the eye is led to the dangling spectacles, which in his relaxation he looks as if he might drop, is masterful. In fact the triangular relation between the two hands and the head forms a perfect structure to complement the softness of the academic dress. The rich red and orange convey the warmth of the occasion, and of the sitter.
[From RSPP Catalogue 1995]

Title/Subject: François Borne
Date: 1995
Medium: Conté drawing
Exhibited: 1997: Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Description/Notes: