Lucy inn the sky with delight
I caught up with my old mate Lucy Felthouse last week for a much awaited catch up chat after a short flurry of arranging and… Read More »Lucy inn the sky with delight
Jackie Adshead
I've been an artist all of my life, and my paintings now hang on walls in Europe, USA and Canada. I'm working on getting them on the other continents! My wide range of artwork has been exhibited nearer to home in the East Midlands, with the Guild of Erotic Artists at Beaumont Hall Studios in Hertfordshire, and at "Erotica", Olympia, London. I have also been featured alongside my work in the Guild of Erotic Artists book (volume 2). I love to create dramatic interest in my pictures, whether it’s to paint an unusual landscape, or just to utilise dramatic lighting in my figure drawings or strong colour in my animal portraits. Delighting in the spontaneous tendencies of watercolour adds an interesting and distinctive look to my paintings, some of which are purposefully ambiguous, enabling the viewer to use their own interpretation of my artwork. I also love to hide images, and humour within my paintings, whether it’s a secret message, or an erotic couple hidden within a landscape, or even an erotic landscape where the couple are camouflaged as the features of the land itself. I am equally happy painting in oils, acrylics or watercolours and love to draw with pencil or ink. I have also developed the very effective method of drawing using white pencil on black card which creates dramatic pictures by just picking out where the light catches the body and leaving the rest of the image to the imagination, in darkness. I can also utilise many different styles, whether it is realistic, abstract, surrealistic, erotic, fantasy or camouflage art where something is hidden within the painting. I'm just passionate about my art, whatever I paint! But, it doesn't matter how many landscapes or pet portraits I paint, its always the erotic stuff that people are interested in! I started blogging to share some of the strange conversations I have with the people I meet. But its evolved into far more than that now.
A brush with time
I love painting, infact I am never happier than when I’m painting. But you can have too much of a good thing, even when its… Read More »A brush with time
Put me on hold til then
With a flourish, the artist signed her name, content in the fact that the painting, infact this most difficult of difficult paintings, was completed. She… Read More »Put me on hold til then
Snow stopped play
I love twilight, its my favourite time of the day, when the golden afternoon light goes hazy and starts to turn to the purple night. But, with… Read More »Snow stopped play
Would you like to come up and see my etchings ?
Its an old English joke – or at least it used to be when I was a teenager, that if you said to someone “Would… Read More »Would you like to come up and see my etchings ?
Hello come on in and take your clothes off
He contacted me a few weeks ago with regard to me drawing him and his wife, in the nude (them, not me!). They wanted a… Read More »Hello come on in and take your clothes off
That was the word I was looking for
Having spent a lot of Friday drawing out the last part of the working drawing for the “obscure as it is obvious” picture, I was… Read More »That was the word I was looking for
Obscurely emerging and starting to breathe fire
The “obscure as it is obvious” picture that I wrote about a couple of posts ago is slowly coming together. I now have the concept,… Read More »Obscurely emerging and starting to breathe fire
Why do I feel like I’ve let the world down?
Yesterday when it was so gloriously sunny I went for a walk. A muddy walking boots over rolling fields sort of walk, as its always a… Read More »Why do I feel like I’ve let the world down?
Dropping the spade to reach back to the stars
Someone told me a few years ago that if you’re digging a hole for yourself, then stop the digging. But, others advise that if you… Read More »Dropping the spade to reach back to the stars
Sweet and very eagerly anticipated
Some pictures are more special than others, and this is one of them! 🙂 Ever since I painted this sexy picture last year I knew how… Read More »Sweet and very eagerly anticipated
As obscure as it is obvious
I’ve done some tricky pictures in the past, but I think this one may be the trickiest so far….. The client wants me to paint… Read More »As obscure as it is obvious
Glowing interiors composed to perfection
It was nice to actually get to the workshop this time, the last one was cancelled due to a heavy fall of snow and concerns… Read More »Glowing interiors composed to perfection
Sell or return empty handed
Some months ago I came to an arrangement with a business, that I would put some pictures on their wall. Its an arrangement that I’ve… Read More »Sell or return empty handed
Abstracting the secret code
One of my blog posts from a few weeks ago has sparked off an interesting conversation, which has led to a meeting this week to discuss… Read More »Abstracting the secret code