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New show and new paint
At last, a few signs of Spring in the weather and some bright days slotted in between those dull and rainy ones! When landscape subjects are not inspiring me in this dull weather I tend to go off on a tangent and consider other subjects, and so this month I have been...
A good start to the New Year
I did submit three more paintings to the RWS Open again this year and none of them were selected. As the Open encourages the use of water based paintings in an new and contemporary way, I thought that these showed just that type of approach. Perhaps they we not...
November & December – months for new experiences
I had thought that these last two months of the year would be quiet times, being indoors and with every opportunity to paint more in the studio, but I was wrong! During these two months I got to know the Mall galleries fairly well as I became a frequent visitor,...
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters has accepted a painting!!!!
Yes, at last I have some success with the ROI and had a small, but perfectly formed painting accepted by them! As I mentioned last month, I posted 3 works on line and had them pre-selected which of course got my hopes up, and low and behold they chose one to show in...
The busy season!
The busy season is nearly over now and I am looking forward to putting some ideas collected over the summer into new paintings. I have collected a lot of images and enjoyed the stimulus of seeing great locations from various visits and holidays in Greece and Cornwall....
The busy Summer months!
Regular viewers may have missed the texts that I haven’t written for the last few months, but I will now make amends this month and bring you up to date with my art world. In my last blog I said that I was pleased to be showing at the new St Albans gallery – called...
Missed a few months!
If anyone follows this blog regularly ( and I hope there a few ), you will have noticed that there has been an absence of text during April & May. My apologies, but several things have kept me from this task and I am glad to re-appear again for June to continue...
New ideas evolving
February has been a good month for work. The photos, sketches and ideas I gathered whilst in Suffolk last month, were an ideal subject to concentrate and develop a new painting method. My images were often multiple views of the same view showing different...
A fresh start to 2015
The family visit to Southwold in January was a time to reflect and gather some inspiration for forthcoming work and to focus on some changes I want to make to my paintings. I feel that I need to concentrate more on the work of ‘picture making’ instead of letting the...
Closing the year 2014
The last gallery show of the year was at the Espacio Gallery during the first week of December and proved to be an interesting move away from the standard gallery format of precisely hung paintings. The objective was to display paintings together with the working...
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