I was asked by a client a few weeks ago if he could buy my ‘Tree goddess’ painting, I laughed and said it wasn’t for sale as I’d painted it for me, but I would happily sell him a print of it. No, he said, he didn’t want a print, he wanted an original of […]
I had a chat a couple of weeks ago with my neighbour who mentioned he wanted me to do some artwork for him. He invited me to call around his house last weekend for him to show me what he was talking about. I was intrigued what he was referring to, but when he showed […]
I was delighted to have a message over the weekend from the woman who was given the painting I did of ‘Wooster’ a few weeks ago by the client of mine who had commissioned it as a gift for her, but hadn’t told her he was doing it until he gave her the finished painting. […]
I was asked recently to sell my ‘Tree goddess’ painting, that I finished in March this year, and told the client that delighted as I was to hear that he wanted to buy it, it wasn’t for sale, as I had painted it for myself…but I was more than happy to sell him a print […]
The commission I was asked to do a few weeks ago was of two female French Bulldogs and fortunately I was given a great photo to work from which I’ll show here so you can see what I was working to create. The painting was to be in acrylics on board so the first thing […]
A week last Thursday, about 9.30 in the morning, the phone rang with a surprising comment from Stuart Haywood… Who told me that the BBC wanted to ring me, more specifically the production team from the TV show ‘Have I got news for you’ regarding the photo I’d taken of him in the nude… as […]
Yesterday the guy who commissioned me to paint ‘Wooster’ came to collect it. He brought with him a friend of mine, who is also a friend of his, its through her that he knows of me. I greeted them when they arrived and we had cups of tea in the kitchen as we discussed various […]
That was certainly a first when the BBC rang me this morning wanting permission to use one of my images on ‘Have I got new for you’….. It was only a few minutes before that Stuart Haywood had rung me to inform me that a photo I had taken a few years ago (of him) […]
Between the rain showers yesterday I went for my usual walk along the road, and on the way back a woman I know well enough to stand and chat to called me over to her to say that she had been to see a local art exhibition in the next village (about three miles away […]
This week I was delighted to sell a small watercolour painting I painted last year in celebration of the joyful village in France of Gerberoy. I love old French villages, I especially love them when they are full of flowers, and in summer sunshine, which was the case on the day I went, with my […]
When I finished the last realm painting it was suggested to me that there should be a third one, to accompany the other two, so that the three of them could be hung together. Not a small request at all to achieve! I had a think about it and decided that for me the best […]
At the weekend I saw the young woman who bought a painting from me a couple of months ago… ”Realm of the fire bellied water baboon’ She had seen that I had finished the latest painting of that ilk ‘Underwater realm of the fire vicuna’. She told me that she felt that the two pictures […]
I knew when I finished the other quirky fire and water mystical creatures painting the other month that I would want to paint another…so now that I have finished commissions for the moment I got on and painted this one….I love the fact that other people will see things in it that I haven’t planned…. […]
Its the blogs birthday today… 16 years I’ve been writing a blog… I still enjoy writing it, and its always lovely when people tell me that they read it, it makes it all worthwhile. Happy Birthday Blog!
I found a gold frame that I’ve always liked and decided that I would paint a picture for a one particular place in my lounge that it would fit perfectly.. the frame had a blue mount and glass, so all I had to do was think of the right picture for it. The space was […]
