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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...
Autumn shows
Many galleries find Autumn a good time to sell work, hence many of the major London shows use this key period to exhibit in the Mall Galleries. As I mentioned in the last blog post I had to 'escape' from the Suffolk trip to take my marine paintings to the Mall for...
‘Escape to the country’
What a start to the summer! My wife and I went to 2 lovely Greek Islands during the last 2 weeks of June only to find that the temperature back in England was much the same as Greece, so the only difference was the relaxed lifestyle and beatiful beaches. Painting has...
My first time exhibiting at the Ayot St Lawrence Art Fair
Some months ago I received an invitation to exhibit at the Ayot St Lawrence Art Fair. This wonderful enterprise has been going for 44 years and has a large patonage from dedicated followers from all over Hertfordshire and beyond. The paintings are displayed in a large...
Childwickbury Arts Fair – 2018
I will be showing and demonstrating again at the Childwickbury Arts Fair at the fantastic Childwickbury Estate on the Harpenden Road, near St Albans AL3 6JU Friday 6th - Sunday 8th July 2018 Please come and visit, have a chat and see some amazing art, view...
Open Studios in St Albans – September 2018
A warm welcome to any website viewers to visit my studio during these following weekends in September at 50 Salisbury Avenue, St Albans. AL1 4TU 8th & 9th 15th & 16th 22nd & 23rd
2018 – Starting the New Year
After much deliberation over the Christmas period about submitting works for the Royal Watercolour Society open exhibition and the Royal Institute of Watercolour open show, both to be submitted in January, I decided to go for it! I had some of my plein air sketches...
Keep going in December!
Drifting to the close of year, the snow has finally fallen and keeping warm enough to continue artwork is an envidious choice. Although the light in my studio is excellent due to the extensive glazing, there feels a chill even when heated, and the cool light is not...
New inspiration from the Lake District
This October I joined 11 other artists at the rather luxurious lakeside hotel call the Ladore Falls hotel just 8 miles from Keswick on Derwentwater. I arrived with a friend from London at the hotel a day before hurricane Brian decided to make its presence felt...
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