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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve got a lovely new commission to do this week…. Totally different to the one I finished last week.. Its in acrylics on board…. And is of a dog… And acrylics is the perfect medium to paint the dog in.. getting all those fine hairs of light over dark, dark over light that makes up […]
Yesterday a guy came to see me from Northamptonshire, a two hour journey to Kent, and I hadn’t met him before. He brought with him a good friend of mine, Jo, who is a mutual friend of ours. It was nice to meet him face to face, we had spoken on the phone a couple […]
The acrylic painting I did a few weeks ago ‘Realm of the fire bellied water baboon’ has been collected today… the woman who bought it loves my artwork and I love the conversations we have about art. We both share a love of art and find that our creativity bounces off each other with ideas. […]
This week I have received a wonderfully heartwarming email from someone called Craig….here are the main parts of the email he sent to me…. I would like to start by thanking you for the ‘blogs’ you have on your website, and what a profound affect these snippets of your existence have had on me; and […]
Stuart Haywood mentioned to me a few weeks ago that he wanted to see if the Guardian newspaper would be interested in his experience for their article for changes in life after 60…because he had become a naturist, and that was all down to me! Stuart had never been naked infront of anyone other than […]
Over Christmas I was delighted to see one of my favourite films… and even though I must have seen it at least four times over the years I thought I’d watch it again….and found that I was totally enthralled with it all over again. The film was ‘Oliver Twist’ – the 1948 black and white […]
Ooohh…. I’ve just been asked to do another interesting commission, a totally different one to the one I finished last week. This one will be a painting in acrylics, of two people. How exciting. Can’t wait to get started on it…
I’m always happy to get a commission to do for a client for Christmas. The conversation via email started yesterday, when someone asked me if it was possible to do a pen and ink drawing of a house in Shropshire for someone elses Christmas present. I replied it was possible, and fortunately I was given […]
I’ve finished the commission I was asked to do for clients a few weeks ago…and I’ve finished the autumnal gardening jobs that have to be done at this time of year when the weather is mild and sunny enough, and before the winter rains come. That took two weeks or so to do… So now […]
