Sometimes you just have to accept that no matter what your best efforts are, there is something that you cannot get around. Some things are unstoppable. And no matter how much I am enjoying painting my latest painting, no matter how much I want to get it done, no matter how I am aching to […]
Whilst watching one of my favourite programmes the other night, my fella said omminously that he couldn’t understand at all why I enjoyed it, or the one that I had watched previous to it, also one of my favourites. “You’re an intelligent person” he said “But you’re caught up with it, and you don’t seem […]
At what point do you say a picture is complete? At the first thought, when its just a concept? At the first working drawings when its just an idea you’re working on? At the end of working on the working drawings when you can’t wait to get it painted cos you’ve thought all the ideas […]
Artists never start at the point at which you meet them. Who ever the artist is, when you find them and wow over the work they’ve done and how much you admire their talent, and love their use of colour, or tone, or subject matter, that, usually, isn’t where they started. Ok, they might always […]
After seven months, he finally arrived on my doorstep. I welcomed him in with a smile and a “At last, we meet!” comment which he smiled at and agreed. Its not often that a commission takes so long to arrange, but he’s been really busy with work commitments, and I’ve been busy with art commitments […]
A week ago it was summer, this week its winter. A shock to the system as the greyness of the soddenly wet day lashes against the window. But, even if its dark at 4pm, how did that happen? And even though a day after 5th November and Bonfire Night it officially became Christmas in Tesco (don’t […]
When he first rang to arrange a life drawing sitting with me we discussed his ideas and he said he would ring me after Easter to book it. He was free when he rang again, during May but I wasn’t as I had other commitments I had to work to. We agreed that he would contact […]
