I have sold more work in these categories (Places on this website) than any others during my life and I’ve just been looking back that those pictures, which I hope are reasonably well painted, in my stock that remain unsold. I’ve shown below four of those which have been publicly Continue Reading
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Very Busy Spell! – March blog
I’ve been very much occupied with a very special commission which has needed careful planning, many changes, discretion and a fair amount of patient work , and prevented me from writing a blog during February! I recorded various stages of the progress and this is the first stage completed with Continue Reading
January 2021 New Year Aspirations
I have spent the early days of 2021 discovering some exciting portrait painters on www.thecbpp.org website who have been something of a revelation as many of them are unconventional in their approach to such painting and quite different from the traditional portrait painting found, for example, in the members of Continue Reading
November/December 2020 -Help for the NHS
The period building up to Christmas has had many highs, lows, confusion, frustrations and difficulties for most people and they’ve affected us too even though we’ve not suffered badly like so many we see or hear of in the media. As always, the blame game continues and it is difficult Continue Reading
October Blog
I’m starting to write this blog on World Mental Health Day when it is so evident that mental health problems can affect any one of us as the current uncertain coronavirus situation is causing so much concern and disruption. Art, music, theatre, entertainment and so many other dependent occupations rely Continue Reading
September Blog – Painting and Decorating!
Much as we would like a proper holiday, it just isn’t possible at the moment so, somewhat reluctantly, we have decided to re-decorate the second smallest room in the house which partly serves as a studio, storeroom and cd/dvd and art library. Here are some before, during and after photos Continue Reading
August Blog Land and Sea
In the last few weeks Christine has asked me to go back to producing a few traditional landscapes and seascapes in a fairly orthodox style so here are my efforts on her behalf. The source of the painting is a photo taken by Christine when we stayed in Geneva for Continue Reading
July Blog – Art and Music A Joy for Life
I have always found art and music totally absorbing. Some of my earliest childhood memories relate to them. I clamoured for pencils and paper when I was young so that I could draw – anything and everything. Some songs on the radio made me emotional at a very tender age. Continue Reading
June Blog Mixed Emotions, More Uncertainty and Protest.
The virus has embarked on a new phase provoking more controversy and lively debate as countries learn more about the nature of Covid 19 and its symptoms. We now know that in many cases people have had it and displayed no signs of the virus whatsoever so may have transmitted Continue Reading
May Blog – A Strange New World
Life has become quite tough for all of us just now, no matter what age, gender or status you have. We are dealing with an unknown virus which has yet to show us how damaging it may be to the entire world population and economy. Most of us in the Continue Reading