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Open Studios in St. Albans
I would welcome any visitors to my website at my open studios in St Albans on the days that I open. Please look at the HVAF website for dates and times of my venue. Sealed bids are invited now for an original artwork, ‘Summer in the City’,...
Local success at St Albans
After some recent disappointments, hearing that my submissions to the Cork Street Open and the Sunday Times watercolour completion were rejected, I started to wonder if my latest work was going in the wrong direction, but having got over the dismay I feel it is right...
The Exhibition Season starts
My adventure with the New Artist Fair at the beginning of March did not bring in the results hoped for, so I am having a go at 2 exhibitions that I have entered before and respect the standard of work submitted. The Hertford Open is one that I always feel I have a...
An inspiring start to April
What a great few days in Newlyn with Mark Spray of the Newlyn School of Art. In all seven artists turned up to experience the Cornish landscape and put it all down on paper and paint. Not the best of weather and the moors can be a trifle cold when it is 5 degrees and...
New horizons
Most of February was taken up with a few experimental details of picture making and has not yet supplied me with any paintings of note, so there are no images to show as yet although I definitely think that some progress is on the way! The other major concern was to...
New Artist Fair
I will be showing 6 paintings in this exciting new show of up and coming artists work at the Candid Gallery at Islington ( just behind Angel underground station) at the begining of next month. Hope you can make a visit over the week end of 2 & 3 March...
Starting out – 2013
Somehow December came and went and I could not think of anything of note that needed to be dwelt upon in that month, so it was a time to purchase some excellent art books that I have wanted (secretly giving myself Christmas presents) and buying some Italian large...
Winter arrives with some disappointments
November has been a slow month and I had hoped to produce a lot of work from my Suffolk images and sketches, but somehow not much has materialized The paintings have be slow to emerge and those I have done have to some degree taken slightly different directions....
October – new directions to close the year!
A wonderful trip to the States again in October and this time we (the family) spent time by the coast in Long Island, a favourite destination for the rich and famous as it is a stone’s through from New York. We stayed in Montauk right at the end of the peninsular and...
September & late holidays
After the heady atmosphere of the Cork Street show in August, this month has been a time for consideration and reflection to see what direction to turn to in the months ahead as the weather deteriorates. Two holidays are scheduled for the end of September and there...
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