The word ‘original’ for an artistic or musical work means that it’s created and produced for the very first time: it is totally new and has never been seen or heard before. A works existence depends on a degree of thought, skill, effort and labour used by its creator but, Continue Reading
Paula Rego
April Blog (2) Changing Times
Although not my favourite occupation, we have just completed a marathon household makeover to our hall, stairs and landing which has consisted of replacing doors, much cleaning down, plastering, painting and decorating. This exercise has even embraced the use of a few of my smaller art paintbrushes to tackle some Continue Reading
September 2017 Blog
All artists dread running out of ideas and staring at blank canvases. I’m no exception and although I’ve had the excuse for not painting because my priorities are my family, my wife in particular, there have been some limited opportunities to paint which I haven’t taken because there has been Continue Reading
April 2017 Blog An encounter with Paula Rego, Portraits and Storytelling
I’ve lost confidence in the last few weeks about my ability to achieve consistently good likenesses with my portrait painting. My success rate at the moment in the last three attempts is not good – Dame Judi Dench poor, Syd Barrett poor, Dame Paula Rego reasonable. Some artists are able Continue Reading