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Inspired by Cornwall
As organiser for our local Art Society Summer Art Exhibition I have had a busy few weeks putting together a rather grand show in our local Town Hall. I thought that I should also find time to prepare some work to show there with all my fellow members, not an easy task...
New work submitted to Cork Street
Over the past month I have developed several paintings from the stock of photos I took whilst on a painting holiday last year at Borrowdale in theLake District. The Cork Street Gallery in London invites submissions to the their Open Exhibition this month, and I...
Paintings on show at the new Gallery – Art at 88
I am pleased to announce that 4 paintings have been accepted for display in a new gallery in Berkhamsted called Art at 88. This is an exciting new venture run by two enthusiastic gallery owners who want to promote good locally produced visual art and craft based...
Success at Hertford
Having been to the Hertford Open last year and seen the standard of entries, I thought that I would really like to see if I could come up to that standard and get one or two accepted this year. The acceptance rate is only 40% so I was going to have to aim high. It...
Entry for Hertford Open Exhibition
Currently working on a painting to be submitted to the Open Painting Exhibition in Hertford. This is a prestigious long standing exhibition open to all artists, but is subject to rigorous selection by the organizers so my I can only hope it meets their standards.
Sale of a painting for Home-start
I rarely do commissions, but I had a request that I did not want to refuse as it would benefit the great charity my wife runs here in St Albans. I was asked to offer a painting for auction at the Mayor's Charity Ball to be held in a local hotel. If the painting...
Realising a painting from the description of another
This might seem a strange starting point for a painting, but it was one that was given to me recently to explore. I found the challenge of translating a given description of another person's painting into one of my own without seeing the said painting, a...
This is my Blog
The body of work I have established up to the end of 2010 has been the result of largly self taught practice and experiments with different media together with some part time tuition. This tuition has greatly helped me to explore different painitng techniques and has...
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