Its always poignant to look back on any year, we always start a year full of hope and at the end of it there will always be highlights… and here are mine for the last year. It seems to have been a year of two halves regarding artwork, I was pleased to exhibit my artwork […]
At this time of year I always think of my friends and family spread far and wide and love to receive their cards hearing news and their good wishes for a Happy Christmas. I love that communication of connection. Its always a delight to know that someone is thinking of you and wondering how you […]
The mystery painting has gone off to the client all wrapped up and looking festive as requested. So my Christmas deadline artwork has been done, and you’d think that now I could relax and start to wind down for Christmas itself…. But no… I can now do the artwork that I was actually paid for […]
I did a bit of framing a couple of weeks ago for the pupil who comes to me most weeks for private painting classes. The watercolour that she was coming to collect was a gift for a family member and she has put many hours of hard work into that painting over the three months or […]
I’ve done a lot of artwork for Derbyshire writer Stuart Haywood since I met him in 2008 and become friends with him and his wife as well. He had at that age of 72 never been naked infront of anyone other than his wife of almost 50 years when we met and because I made the experience of […]
The black and white and red acrylic painting that I finished last week has dried nicely over the weekend so I could screw the hanging fixings on the back today. As I tied the hanging cord on the back and sealed it off I turned the painting over and felt the texture within the paint and […]
Since the client has decided to let me be the judge of when this painting is finished, without seeing the finished painting in its entirety, and since I am fully aware of what their wishes are, I knew yesterday that I had virtually finished it other than adding textures in the poignant parts of the acrylic […]
I’ve got on well with the painting I’m currently working on for the client commission for Christmas… I’ve got to the fun part of hiding the images within the painting and am now working on the predominately white part, and as any artist knows white is never boring… it has so many fine details and […]
