(This is the article in the Burton Mail that Stuart Haywood had today, to promote naturism, and the exhibition he is holding of my artwork of him in May. ) I became a naturist at 72 and ‘you’re never too old to be naked’ Stuart Haywood says no-one should be ashamed of their body Naturist […]
I had a lovely email from the Derbyshire writer Stuart Haywood the other day that made me smile,…. “I walked down to Sainsburys this morning and on the way I recollected my first visit to you and discussing ideas.I was nervous as I did not […]
I like working with local historian writer Stuart Haywood as much as he likes working with me in the nine years since we met. He knows he can ask for any piece of artwork he wants and I will do it for him. And I know that sometimes he will get diverse responses from some […]
I’ve done quite a few drawings of local writer Stuart Haywood over the nine years since I first met him in 2008. And I love the fact that he was incredibly nervous when he first walked through my door with the intention of being drawn naked for the first time in his life, but I […]
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 […]
I found out yesterday that I am mentioned in Chat magazine in their “Very best of Chat” coming out in December 2016, in issue 12 of their passion series! On page 42 under the heading “A nude lease of life” by Rhona Haywood, who is the wife of Stuart Haywood who I have done many nude […]
Whilst supermarket shopping last week,before heading off to peruse the fresh vegetables I nipped around to the magazine section and picked up a particular magazine. I’m not a massive buyer of magazines unless its arty ones, but knew these were exceptional circumstances. I flicked through the pages and yep, there it was, the article I was looking for. I […]
About three weeks ago my friend Stuart Haywood (for whom I have done a number of drawings and a watercolour painting of him naked, and who hadn’t stripped off before and wasn’t a naturist before this experience) emailed to say that he and his wife were to be featured in an article about them renewing their marriage vows. They have been happily married more […]
Stuart wasn’t a naturist until he met me. He lived a quiet life with his wife, wrote factual historical articles of local interest for the nearby paper and was a keen gardner. But there was obviously something in him that wanted to expand into expressing himself in a more exciting way. And that was done via […]
What do you write about on the extra day of the year, the one that you don’t normally get? Do you write about things you’d normally write about, or something different? MMMmmmm……… Well the first thing I’ll write about is a phone call from a happy customer – Stuart Haywood – who wanted me to […]
Some pictures are simple to paint, others more difficult. Not difficult to paint them you understand, just more complex ideas to pull together and get right in the painting. And the one I’ve just finished for Stuart Haywood is one of them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining, not at all, infact I love it, […]
I love the beginning of a painting, when the sheet of paper has been stretched on a board, flat, crisp, even. Blank, and waiting. And then I start drawing, pencil in hand, knowing where the lines are going to be, where the focal point is, and the other lines leading to it. The more I draw the more excited I […]
Stuart is 75 and likes being naked around me. The fact that he’d never been naked infront of anyone other than his wife of 50 years shows the depth of trust he has in me, and the way I’ve opened up a new facet of his exuberant character. Since that first day he contacted me not […]
I had a bit of a clue in the week that I would be featured in the paper, from the journalist who wrote the article, but wasn’t sure which day it would actually be. But fortunately others saw it, before I had had chance to find out, and kept a copy behind for me, so thanks for […]
The paraphernalia of old potting sheds is something of a delight to a gardener. The sight of old clay pots stacked up high awaiting this years seeds, the well remembered spades and forks for digging, the old machinery taking the toil away from back-breaking labours, and over the whole pervades an earthiness of compost and old soil, of damp hessian, and the faint […]
