it’s all about watercolours
In a genuinely unexpected turn of events my watercolour painting;, ‘Take me to the river’ is one of only fifty paintings – in all media – selected for the 2023 British Art Prize! News of this success came as such a surprise because I’d totally forgotten that I’d entered for this opportunity! I do recall …
Continuing with last week’s theme and my enduring enthusiasm for bars, this week’s effort sees me revisit one of my favourite bars in Barcelona, Sol de Nit: We first came across this bar when exploring Barcelona around Easter time in 2017. My affection for this bar is largely based on memories and associations. I remember …
Picking up where I left off last week – here’s the ‘work in progress’ painting that I’d started. The pencil lines of the initial sketch still visible through the first wash. I procrastinated for quite a while before I did anything else with this. This was mainly because I wasn’t sure how best to tackle …
We have an annual Halloween tradition that involves visiting a pumpkin field in Poynings, East Sussex, to choose our pumpkins. The weather these past few weeks has been pretty atrocious, so our visit kept being postponed until it couldn’t be put off any longer! This meant that by the time we did visit, the field …
It’s been another tricky week for painting! The combination of putting my back out again (fortunately not as badly as a few years ago), along with it being my daughters’ 12th birthday (and everything that entails) has put painting way down the agenda. As I’m sure many followers of my painting progress will know, I’m …
I found myself floundering a little for inspiration so decided to try to make the best use of my time with some focussed back to watercolour school study time! As many of you will know, I’m a great admirer of Paul Talbot-Greaves and a few years ago did a course that he ran on ‘greens …
Opportunities for painting have been thin on the ground of late as I’ve had to make a few strictly ‘non-painting’ trips away! Here though are a few little diversions that I’ve enjoyed of late! After all the various paintings of trees that I’ve been working on recently, I knew that I was keen for a …
I recently finished a commission that I’d started work on some time ago. I was contacted by someone who had come across my work online, really liked it, and was keen to commission a painting for his wife following the birth of their son. There followed lots of to-ing and fro-ing while we established which …
I’m delighted to report that the Danny House exhibition was a great success! It was a busy weekend, with lots of visitors and, I’m pleased to share, quite a few sales too! Here’s how my display looked once I’d finished setting up: Because of the ‘tree’ theme, and the range of works I had available, …
It’s proving to be all go go go at the moment! I had to collect my works from the recent Atelier Open Exhibition, take delivery of the painting that was recently exhibited in the TALP Open exhibition as part of the Patchings Festival – which was really handy as I was able to use all …
