Monthly Archives: March 2012

Painting and Cake making

Painting and cooking have quite a lot in common – you put in all the right ingredients and something good happens. If you don’t follow your own way/path / star whatever you like to call it, things go wrong.  I … Continue reading

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Free and Easy

Didn’t Picasso say something like  ‘you spend a lot of time learning how to draw and then a lot more time forgetting what you’ve been taught ‘ ? That’s what I’m interested in right now – forgetting what you think … Continue reading

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Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition

  The RWS Spring Exhibition starts on Thursday 22 March, and continues until 21 April. The PV is on Thursday 6-8pm. The Hanging team ( including me) placed all the paintings yesterday it took several hours. The team who physically … Continue reading

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Cat on a red chair

A very small painting – bit out of focus!

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Angels and flowers

Visiting the National Gallery last week I spent a little while in the Sackler Wing looking at the lovely early paintings and the gorgeous, rich colours. The Wilton Diptych is one of the best known – and it made me … Continue reading

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End of week

Busy week with RBA show at the Mall, went to David Hockney at the RA again to take a friend ( very crowded, but if you’re an RA friend the queue is short). Saw Zach Braff play in St Martin’s … Continue reading

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The Royal Society of British Artists

The RBA Annual Exhibition is now on at the Mall Galleries, London and continues until the 10th 0f March. My six paintings are nicely framing Ken Howard’s large painting!

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