Category Archives: Exhibitions

Strictly Come Dancing and Me

I have just realised I am the Ferne Britton of painting – exactly what Bruno, Craig, Len and Darcy say to her every week applies to me. Nice, competent, decent performance but lacks excitement. Bruno told her to stop dusting … Continue reading

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Royal College of Art last night

  Someone with impeccable taste and discernment bought this at a Charity do last night – in aid of Chase Shooting Stars Children’s Hospice

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The talented Mr Winthrop

My brother has always drawn, but he is also a musician. Today he said something really interesting, every piece of paper IS a bit different, and every Rotring (pen) nib IS also different – just as every saxophone reed IS … Continue reading

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Keeping at it!

These will be at a Charity Exhibition at the RCA in London next week.

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Royal Watercolour Society Autumn Exhibition

Spent yesterday helping to layout RWS Member’s paintings for the opening tomorrow.We lay the paintings out flat on the floor, and then start placing them. This time we were trying to hang the member’s work together – this is a … Continue reading

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Royal Watercolour Society Autumn Exhibition

Private View at the Bankside Gallery ( between Tate Modern & Blackfriars Station, South Entrance ). Thursday 4 October 6-8pm Do come along RWS Autumn PV card 2012 FINAL

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Tidying Up the Studio

Spent all day tidying and getting rid of stuff – then I painted my table and now I have SURFACES darling ‘ as Edwina said in AbFab’.

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Photographing paintings

Here I am demonstrating new camera! On behalf of the RWS off we went this morning to take some pictures of paintings. We all agreed painting is hard enough – then there’s the framing / taking good enough digital images … Continue reading

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Painting

If I put these two paintings here it might stop me tinkering about with them and overdoing them so that they end up painted to death. I’m not trying to reproduce reality – paintings should have their own life.

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ACEO Gallery at Brighton Art Fair

These works are in an online gallery – http://www.aceogallery.co.uk They will be on show at the Brighton Art Fair in September

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