About a year ago Alan Kinsey, a professional artist living in France and a life-long cyclist, decided to combine the two passions - painting and cycling - to produce paintings with a cycling theme.

With this in mind he started a modest blog, Bikes and Paint, to chat about his rides and bikes, but also to showcase his work.

Alan loves all aspects of cycling and is enthusiastic about any kind of bike, from the latest carbon framed racers to the lowliest shopping bike. As you can see from the work shown on his blog, he likes to depict the speed and excitement of massed sprints but also neglected, rusty machines. As he says "...there's something sad and poetic about a bike, or any machine come to that, which has outlived it's usefulness and has been abandoned by it's owner in a shed or a corner of a garden"

Alan can produce rider portraits, bike portraits or racing scenes on commission and anyone interested in contacting him can do so through the contact page of his site www.alankinsey.com.

All the best to Alan with his excellent work!