I was part of a local art exhibition at Ticknall Village Hall in South Derbyshire over the weekend. It was the usual concentrated job to get the artwork ready, set it up, sort out the admin for it all (title cards filled out, hanging fees paid) and then go and hang them all, and catch […]
My good friend Lucy Felthouse came around last night, and as always was a joy and delight to be with. I know it is technically a business meeting, and most of the night was actually discussing business, although anyone else listening to the subject matter would find an awful lot to be titillated over, for […]
There is something I have in the past struggled to paint, a subject that should be easy, and is certainly one that a lot of people enjoy painting. It is a subject that is probably as far away from figure painting that you can get. Which is probably why I have struggled on some occasions […]
Here it is, painted in acrylics, on board 20 x 16 inches, the latest Queynte to join the illustrious group of very feminine portraits that I have painted -otherwise known as the “Fantasy Fannies” . Its the twenty first one I’ve done, so it’s called “Queynte 21” quite naturally. I love the mixture of strong colours against […]
Sometimes you wonder if its all worthwhile. All the false starts, perplexing information, opposing information from two unconnected sides, and me stuck in the middle. All I’m trying to do is knit two sides together, with two simple actions, that should be the easiest thing in the world to do. And I wouldn’t mind, but I did it all four years ago […]
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In the last two days I’ve had two similar conversations each with a man I don’t know, and they in turn don’t know me, particularly. They don’t know my name. They don’t know what I do. They don’t know that I am an artist. And whilst I was having these two conversations, 26 hours, and four miles apart, […]
I’m doing a lot of pedaling at the moment, and have a lot of balls of different shapes sizes and colours in the air, so much so that I feel like a circus performer (and you can never find one of those when you want one! ha ha). I’m in the process of updating my website, […]
I had a really long chat with my good American friend from across the seas last night. Well, nowhere near the sea as far as he is concerned, and nor me either come to think of it! And although there were many miles between us (and a lot of ocean!) he could have just been in […]
I’ve just been featured in the May edition of Jade magazine! YAY! It’s regarding the talk I did at Burton Library in March, and they’ve printed all that I wrote and featured here the other week, so I don’t need to print it all out again since the link is here. But, its good to […]
I had visitors over the weekend. Well, technically, they weren’t really coming to see me as such, as in a social visit to see how I was. They were actually coming to see themselves. In paint. David and Martyn came all the way from Bath to view the painting I’d done of them. They had made […]