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

August 2016 Blog Art and Music – Painting Sound

This is the last blog for the time being about art and its musical connections. I recently starting watching a television series about the history of recorded music and one of the episodes was entitled “painting sound”. This is exactly what has captivated me in recent years. Is it possible Continue Reading