Arts - Enjoy Guy’s coastal scenes at Frescoes

His coastal scenes merge his Bedford roots with the locations they show – right down to the fact that they have been created using a mixture of local watercolours and coastal oils.

Guy is a PE teacher at Bedford School, who studied art along with English and PE as a student.

When he moved back to Bedford in the 1970s he started painting again, and as well as selling widely in the local area his creations have published by a leading greetings card company.

His paintings are currently on sale at Frescoes, and a donation from the proceeds of every painting sold will be made to the Primrose Unit at Bedford Hospital.

Guy said: “Having travelled, often on sports tours, to destinations such as the Caribbean, the Antipodes and various Pacific islands, I felt it would be rewarding to capture the intense brightness and atmosphere of these places on big canvases. Other oils exhibited here are of British coastal scenes.

“I was never a great trainer when I played sport. I enjoyed the run-out on Saturdays and I suspect I exemplified the flip side of the maxim that ‘the less I practised the unluckier I become’.

“Painting is a great contrast to sport. It’s not over-energetic, which I quite enjoy, and you don’t tend to get hurt which is a bonus too.”