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The year ahead 2025 – new thinking!
Looking back to the last blog posting which was July 2024 I realise that I haven’t kept up to date with any progress that I may have made in the intervening months. At that time of writing, I had announced that ‘ I have decided to make a complete change of approach to...
New thinking about painting
New thinking about painting Although I am now halfway through this painting year I have decided to make a complete change of approach to my work and have been tentatively working in a more abstract way to generate paintings that don’t explicitly describe a...
Recently I was contacted by a gallery in Thame expressing an interest in my paintings.
A gallery owner rarely approaches an artist to see if they would be interested in showing work in their gallery! I was delighted to speak to Susannah of Fitch & Fellows recently who wanted me to send some images of my recent work. This was an offer that I had long...
New painting accepted for the Royal Watercolour Society exhibtion – 2023
I have submitted a selection of four new paintings - full-size viewing on my New Work page. I will know if any have been accepted for the show on the 30th of January and these will be showing at the Bankside Gallery - London on 3rd - 19th March 2023.
Progress in March
I am happy to say that all the features designed to update the website are now fully functioning. I hope if you have got this far in viewing the site, you will have enjoyed the changes made. All the work of uploading the changes on the site left very little time to...
New Items and changes on this website for 2022!
Hello to all visitors, thanks for viewing this update! This blog set out to be a monthly discourse about my working practice and the various art subjects of interest but has sadly been neglected for some time. Never mind! At the start of this year, I will try to be...
Filling the GAP!!
As you will see reading this blog, it hasn't been very active for a long time. Now with this upgrade of the entire website, I think that it deserves an upgrade too! So here is a short review of events so far this year. A brief catch up for 2020. That was the...
The months in between!
Yes, a good few months have been and gone since my last post, and so much has happened. Apart from several submissions to local art shows in Hertford, Ayot St Lawrence and St Albans there wasn't a lot of time to prepare work for any of the London Open Submissions this...
New challenges for the New Year
Leading up to Christmas is always a difficult time to devote time to paint, but this year I managed to develop some pastel sketches into acrylic paintings. The original pastels were done very quickly during my stay in Suffolk earlier in the year and I thought had an...
Painting accepted for the Linden Hall Studio – Winter Show!
So pleased to hear today (14th Nov.) that I have had one of the two paintings that I submitted to the Linden Hall Studio for their annual Winter exhibition accepted for showing. I did my submission painting after a week stay by Derwentwater in the Lake District...
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