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...

A rewarding – October

A rather late entry on the blog this month as October was hectic to say the least! Although our ‘Points of View’ exhibition at the Espacio Gallery wasn’t until the third week of the month, it was a lot of preparation and framing to get the work ready...

Much needed inspiration

    Last month I wrote about the need for more devoted time to painting, and partly that was because there was no desperate need to express my current library of images in paint, but this month my long awaited trip to Tuscany has provided me with a wealth of...

New exhibitions – new work

Things have moved ahead during February and suddenly there seems a lot going on and the intensive painting work that I had planned has been spasmodic at best. However, my application to become an artist member of the Espacio Gallery in London has been accepted and I...

End of Year Review

The year is closing and I am sorry for not posting anything in November, but somehow that month went by with very little time for writing down what I was doing or thinking about. One very important announcement that formulated during November and has been confirmed...