Last Saturday saw the July meet up of the Brighton Painting Group. The location was Brighton’s iconic Palace Pier which, apparently, is the UK’s most popular tourist attraction outside of London. The idea of trying to paint such a well known and recognisable landmark – most likely surrounded by tourists – fare filled me with …
The Brighton Painting Group’s April meet up found us in Blakers Park, in a delightful and predominantly residetnal area of Brighton called Fiveways (due to the five main arterial roads that converge in the area). I’m slightly ashamed to confess that although I’ve driven past the park on many occasions, this was my first ever …
Brighton Painting Group – April 2023, Blakers Park Read More »
First up this week is a new city scene watercolour painting from my home town of Brighton! Considering how long I’ve lived in Brighton, which on and off is probably around 25 or 26 years out of the past 38 years, it’s inspired very few of my paintings. I think this could be to do …
I’m finding it far too hot for watercolour painting, and even too hot to sit here and write about watercolour painting! I’ll try to keep this as light and breezy as possible in the hope it helps to cool things down a bit! Brighton Painting Group August meet up This Saturday will see the next …
Too hot to paint in Watercolour, too hot to even write about painting in watercolour! Read More »
I recently had to get to Brighton train station early in the morning to get a train up to London. Aside from the disruption of an unusually early start to the day, it was great to be in Brighton’s wonderful train station before the morning rush hour started. I arrived in time to get a …
Watercolour painting of Brighton train station before the rush hour Read More »
Some weeks ago I posted about there being nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. The deadline in question was a new Open Exhibition call for entries. It’s being organised by Atelier by the Sea, a relatively new gallery space with a superb location on Brighton’s busy seafront. The venture has a strong pedigree. …
And the moral is: always check your spam folder! Read More »
A summary of how I planned the hang for my temporary exhibition at Starling Studios along with some tips and techniques to make it as quick and easy as possible.
Hola! I’m afraid this will be an intentionally brief post as, after much trepidation over flight cancellations etc – we did actually make it to Barcelona! I can’t begin to tell you how good it feels to be somewhere different! My eyes feel like they’re desperately trying to drink in everything I can see in …
The other week I was trimming all the bent edges off my paintings that are left by the Ken Bromley paper stretchers I use. This wasn’t in preparation for mounting them as I haven’t really done any paintings that I’m especially proud of recently. It was more a case of just having a tidy up …
I don’t mind confessing that I’m finding my painting a bit of a struggle at the moment. This isn’t something new. In fact it’s pretty much an annual occurrence at this time of year. I know that a significant factor is my work, which is almost all-consuming at the moment. I’m also craving a break …
