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An extra reason to be cheerful!

Of course it’s always good to sell a painting, but it’s very nice when you also meet the buyer. This was painted in 2012 for the RWS Jubilee Exhibition and it’s the view from my window in Islington.

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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Have just received a review from WordPress – almost worse than a school report…. must resolve to do a bit better in 2014!! Start tomorrow – Happy … Continue reading

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Royal Watercolour Society’s Mini Picture Show for Christmas

Phew! – at last I seem to have sorted most things off my list although there’s always things to do. Now it’s time to do some Robins for the RWS Mini Picture Show – here are some from previous years. … Continue reading

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Watercolour Secrets

I’ve been working on a book – see title above. I know about book production / design / etc but you always forget how time consuming a book is – I guess it’ll be worth it in the end. Amazon … Continue reading

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Royal Watercolour Society Autumn Supper

Here we are at the RWS Autumn Supper on Sunday 3 November – it’s a wonderful society to belong to – we have 75  full members and at the moment about 6  Associates – we need more!! If you work … Continue reading

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New Talent / Old Talent

In the Camden Review today, there’s an interview with Jonathan Miller who is going to have a show of his art works at The Cross Street Gallery N1 2BA starting November 8. He says ‘ Of course you have to … Continue reading

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Hanging the RWS Autumn Exhibition

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First put all the paintings on the floor Then start trying to place them I’ve got a mountain peak and Denis has a pork pie The paintings slowly get positioned Eventually – five hours later – they have all found … Continue reading

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Hastings and the Jerwood Gallery

Here I am with Elaine Partington at Hastings. We met when we both worked at Thomas Nelson Publishers in London. We had delicious fish & chips at Maggies on the beach and went to the Jerwood Gallery. Very impressed by … Continue reading

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Getting Started

At Last! It’s nearly 6pm and I have finally managed to actually put something out there – just a beginning but I am hopeful ……….. how do we start a new work whether it’s writing, painting, making? Do you write … Continue reading

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Shepherd Market

Quite fun being in a gallery for a few days – you see people going past and some notice pictures and some don’t – if you have to get their attention to even get them in to a gallery to … Continue reading

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