Michael Pockley, painter: Archive, since Aug 2020

Astrid and Holger's upstairs kitchen view
Oil on wood, approx. 100 x 20 cm
Private collection, Long Barn House, Westgreußen

Astrid and Holger's balcony view
Oil on wood, 73 x 52 cm
Private collection, Long Barn House, Westgreußen

2021
Oil on plank salvaged plank during Covid, approx. 35 x 20 cm
Private collection, Aachen

Boat
Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm
Private collection, Dublin

Mother and foal
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen, or Clingen, or Greußen - not sure which horsey girl got it!

Babice, sunrise
Oil on wood, 15 x 10 cm plus simple frame
Private collection, Greußen, I think, but not sure

Dorfstraße, Westgreußen
Oil on wood, A4
(with frame and mount approx. 35 x 27 cm)
Private collection, Westgreußen

Sunlight through skirt
Oil on softwood panel, 20 x 15 cm
Private collection, the manor house, Westgreußen

Lincolnshire
Oil on canvas, 50 x 20 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen, because my "agent" wants to keep it!

Hallowe'en 2024
Oil on wood, 56 x 44 cm
The size includes the frame, a modest yet sturdy antique lump of wood.
Private collection, Westgreußen (Hadu)

Kitten in Prague
Oil on softwood panel, 40 x 9 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen (Andreas)

11th May 2024
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
Private collection, Barrandov

Valentina
Charcoal and graphite on 200 gsm paper, 24 x 32 cm
Private commission, upon her first birthday, Westgreußen, sister of Matilda (below)

Matilda
Charcoal and graphite on 200 gsm paper, 24 x 32 cm
Private commission, upon her third birthday, Westgreußen, sister of Valentina (above)

New Forest Ponies
Oil on wood, A4, framed
Private collection, Westgreußen

New Forest
Oil on wood, A3
Private collection, Westgreußen

Luis
Charcoal and graphite on paper, A4
Private commission, Nordrhein

Sam (left) and Vincent (right)
Charcoal and graphite on 300 gsm paper, each A4
Private commissions, Nordrhein and Westgreußen

18 July 2022
Oil on pine panel, 20 x 20 cm
Private collection, Cologne

Little girl
Oil on softwood panel, 20 x 15 cm
Private collection, Cologne

18 October 2021 (deer)
Oil on softwood panel, 15 x 90 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen (Weihnachtsmarkt)

10 Fenruary 2024
Oil on panel, some kind of softwood, 30 x 15 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen

New Forest III
Oil on wood, A4, plus frame
Private collection, Westgreußen

Westgreußen Curch, midsummer sunset
Oil on wood, A3
Private collection, the manor house, Westgreußen

Giggleswick
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen

19 June 2024
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen

15 June 2024
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
Private collection, Westgreußen

Kitten Saluting the Dawn
Oil on softwood panel, 10 x 15 cm (i.e. postcard size)
Private collection, Nordrhein, Germany

Cologne, sunset behind cathedral
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
Corporate collection, Cologne, Germany

Poppies
Oil on softwood panel, 90 x 20 cm
Private collection, Neschen, Nordrhein, Germany

Cologne, sunset centre
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
Corporate collection, Cologne, Germany

Cologne, sunset further left
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
Corporate collection, Cologne, Germany

Near Bechen
Oil on wood, 15 x 10 cm plus simple frame
Private collection, Nordrhein, Germany

14th May 2024
Oil on panel, one of the series painted on whatever I could find during Covid.
Private collection, Nordrhein, Germany

Patricia Kopatchinskaja
2017, no. 38
Ink and graphite on 300 gsm paper, 21 x 30 cm
Somebody has it but who and where, I really don't know!

Simone Dinnerstein playing Bach
2017, no. 26
Ink on 300 gsm paper, 28 x 21 cm
Somebody has it but who and where, I really don't know!

Lady in Hat
Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Private collection, Klatovy

11 June 2024
Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Private collection, Klatovy

Dvořák, 1882
2017, no. 30
Ink on 300 gsm paper, approx. 29 x 42 cm
Somebody bought this. No idea who! Was it you?

20 June 2024
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
private collection, Darmstadt, Germany

25 June 2024
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm
Private collection, Pilsen

Glenn Gould playing Bach, BWV 1052
2017, no. 21
Ink on 300 gsm paper, 28 x 21 cm
Private collection, Pilsen

17 February 2024
Oil on softwood panel, 120 x 60 cm
Private collection, Neschen, Nordrhein

5 September 2021 (larger)
Oil on wood (almost certainly pine), approx. 100 x 30 cm
private collection, Germany

Oil on distressed softwood panel salvaged during Covid, 60 x 50 cm
Private collection, Doubek, central Bohemia

Kitten by the River
Oil on softwood panel, 30 x 20cm
Sold at The Waiting Room show

Pointillist Prague

Oil on softwood panel, 30 x 15cm

private collection, Collecchio

Norddeutsches Tiefland

Oil on softwood panel, 10 x 15 cm (i.e. postcard size)

I saw a lot of this when I took the train from Prague to Cologne, via Berlin.

Private collection, Berlin

9 September 2023

Oil on softwood panel, 30 x 20 cm

Private collection, Pilsen

18 October 2021 (girl)

Oil on softwood panel, 20 x 30 cm

As usual, there's more crimson in the clouds than comes across on my computer screen.

Private collection, Kürten, Germany

29 June 2021

Oil on panel, some kind of softwood, 30 x 15 cm

Private collection. Doubek

Hexagonal Trevi

This is the view from our guest room at dawn in winter.

In summer the sun rises further to the left.

Oil on panel, 14 cm diameter including frame

Private collection, Umbria

Dodecagonal Trevi

This is the view from our guest room at dawn in winter.

In summer the sun rises further to the left.

Oil on panel, 20 cm diameter including frame

Private collection, Yorkshire

Trevi (large)

Oil on panel, 30 x 40 cm, plus a slim gold frame

Private collection, Spello

Trevi (tiny)

This is the view from our guest room at dawn in winter.

In summer the sun rises further to the left.

Oil on panel, 11 x 10 cm including frame - postacard size!

Private collection, Spello

30 March 2023

Oil on panel, 18 x 24 cm

Private collection, Collecchio (GG)

10 January / 10 March 2023

Oil on panel, 18 x 24 cm, modestly framed

Private collection, Dublin (KK)

More poppies!

Oil on canvas, 35 x 25 cm plus a slim frame

private collection, Borgo Trevi

20 March 2023

Oil on canvas, 60 x 30 cm

Corporate collection, Foligno

Midwinter sunset, 2022

This is the view from my west-facing window.

Oil on canvas, 15 x 10 cm (i.e. a small picture!) plus a lavish if somewhat "distressed" frame

Private collection, Trevi (Leonardo)

Sofi, 17 July 2022

Graphite and charcoal on paper, approx. A4

Private collection, Prague

10 June 2021

Oil on panel, probably pine, Approx. 8.5 x 20 cm

Private collection, Prague (Sarah T.)

20 August 2021

Oil on panel, some kind of softwood, 90 x 60 cm

(The lighter tone bottom right is an illusion - my flat is not a great place for photography!)

Corporate collection, Prague (Locus)

June 2022

Oil on softwood panel, 120 x 60 cm

Corporate collection, Prague (Locus)

April 2022

Oil on softwood panel, 43 x 30 cm

Private collection, Prague (Sofi)

The next few paintings are by the children at a Prague school at which I recently taught.

I helped them produce these works for a charity auction.

They sold for a total of CZK 59,000, which went to Dobrý Anděl.

After original works by Banksy, Van Gogh and Pockley.

Class 1, girls on the left, boys on the right

The price reached at auction for the whale made it my costliest ever sale, which just goes to show that the key determinant of price is the market, not the work of art!

Class 2, girls on the left, boys on the right

Class 3, girls on the left, boys on the right

Class 4, girls on the left, boys ono the right

Class 5 girls

Class 5 boys

Charles Bridge, 5 May 2021

The chappie with the halo is St. John of Nepomuk (c. 1345 -1393), allegedly martyred in the river beneath this statue because he refused to reveal the Queen of Bohemia's secrets which she had shared in her confessional.

My claim to fame: I taught at the university he attended!

Oil on pine panel, approx. 15 x 20 cm

Private collection, Prague / Ohio / Italy (Ariel)

20 March 2021 (Prague Old Town and Charles Bridge)

Oil on salvaged oak, approx. 45 x 14 cm

private collection, Prague (the friendly Germans downstairs)

20 March 2021

Oil on salvaged oak, approx. 45 x 16 cm

private collection, Prague (MS)

13 June 2021

Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm

private collection, Prague (Fabio)

5 October 2021 (cow)

Oil on softwood panel, 30 x 20 cm

Sold at the Locus show, January 2022

5 December 2021

Oil on softwood panel

Approx. 9 x 13cm

Private collection, Prague, at least until Louise goes home

10 June 2021

Oil on rough-cut plank, found in the basement during lockdown.

Approx. 39 x 13cm

Sold at the Locus show, autumn 2021

21 January 2021

Oil on canvas 10.5 x 15 cm (i.e. postcard size), framed.

Private collection, Prague (MV @ Locus)

19 November 2020 (Babice)

Oil on canvas 10.5 x 15 cm (i.e. postcard size), framed.

Private collection, Prague (MV @ Locus)

2015, no 21

(Cover art on You)

Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm

Private collection, Prague (GB)

5 August 2021

Oil on panel, some kind of softwood, 69 x 30 cm

Private collection, Doubek

1 June 2021

Oil on rough, softwood plank, approx. 24 x 31 cm

Close up, you can see the grain of the wood swirling in the sky - either you like that, or you don't!

Private collection, Kent (Southampton Football Club)

25 April 2021

Oil on pine panel, 15 x 20 cm

Private collection, Kent (Southampton Football Club)

22 April 2021

Oil on pine panel, 20 x 20 cm

Private collection, Kent (Southampton Football Club)

5 April2021

Oil and naked pine on pine panel, approx. 25 x 14 cm

Private collection, Kent (Southampton Football Club)

Prague, Charles Bridge and Old Town, 30 May 2021

Oil on pine panel, approx. 30 x 5 cm

Private collection, Moravia (via EZ)

Emma Watson

Ink, graphite and pastel on 300 gsm paper, 20 x 25 cm

Privat collection, Brno, Moravia (FP)

10 January 2021

Oil on panel, probably pine, 15 x 22 cm

NB Wherever you hang this picture, the mood and tones completely change!

(What you see is a photo taken by a window on an overcast day)

Private collection, Prague (Kristýna)

5 May 2021

Oil on pine panel, 20 x 20 cm

Private collection, Prague (KB)

19 April 2021

Oil on pine panel, approx. 20 x 40 cm (forgot to measure it!)

Private collection, Hampshire (PK)

12 April 2021

Oil on pine panel, 20 x 20 cm

Being on a very thin pine panel, you'll need to frame this one to counter its natural warping.

However, it being a standard size, you can get a ready-made frame for almost nothing.

Private collection, Oxford (NS)

15 March 2021

Oil on panel, probably pine, 30 x 20 cm

Private collection, Prague (KB)

27 March 2021 (Prague Old Town, viewed from Charles Bridge)

Oil on cork, approx. 27.5 x 18 cm

Private collection. Doubek, Bohemia

23 October 2020

Oil on pine panel, 60 x 70 cm

Private collection, Doubek, Bohemia

3 February 2021

Oil on wood (almost certainly pine), approx. 17 x 11.3 cm

Very approx. - indeed, not quite rectangular!

Private collection, Hampshire (PK)

22 January 2021

Oil on fine-grained panel (maybe even a hardwood?) 15 x 22.5 cm

Private collection, Suffolk

Autumn/winter 2020
Oil on canvas, approx. 10 x 15 cm

Private collection, Dijon (C Ch.-S)

16 February 2021 (Pockley Moor)

Oil on some kind of softwood, approx. 42 x 24 cm

In places the surface is a little textured as it's just a plank, primed and sanded mostly smooth.

Private collection, Dijon (C Ch.-S)

17 January 2021

Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 cm

Private collection, Cumbria (MB)