Category Archives: Painting

Royal Watercolour Society / Contemporary Watercolour Competition

Fantastic PV on Thursday at Bankside Gallery. So nice to meet Christie Bird – I love her work – see Jane Lewis- friend, meet Amanda Jefferies,Anne Marlowe,Charlotte Knox,Julie D. Cooper, see Debbie Ayles again,Kate Giles,John Duffin,and Shanti Panchal.Simon Carter wasn’t … Continue reading

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Royal Society of British Artists

Here I am with the talented Danny (Alfred Daniels) who very kindly awarded me a prize! The exhibition is at the Mall Galleries until 15 March, every day 10 – 5pm I will be there on Tuesday 11 March after … Continue reading

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Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition

RWS SPRING EXHIBITION    28 March – 26 April  / PV Thursday 27 March 6-8pm Bankside Gallery | 48 Hopton Street | London SE1 9JH

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Before & After

Things were getting out of hand – no room to do any painting!

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Reasons to be cheerful & trying something different!

  This is Tom & Luna – she looks like a tiny astronaut – maybe that’s serendipity! Trying to do some different work and looking for inspiration from family.

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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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Reasons to be cheerful / number 4

    Walk to St Pauls, across the Millennium Bridge ( very high tide ), then a cup of coffee in Tate Modern.

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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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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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