Category Archives: watercolour

Watercolour 2013

Exciting news for artists – your chance to have your work on display at the Bankside Gallery – adjacent to Tate Modern. Open painting competition organised by the RWS to celebrate WATERCOLOUR as a vibrant medium, encourage INNOVATION in the … Continue reading

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Last night walking from London Bridge to Bankside

How gorgeous is this view – City / Lights / River / so lucky to live in London

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North One Artists Paintings and Prints

Last night 10 artists ( North One Artists or NOA ) had a very successful Private View at The Gallery, Alan Baxter & Associates, 75 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL. Jim Churcher Joan Dannatt Mick Davies Shelby Dawbarn Wendy Jacob … Continue reading

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Royal Watercolour Society’s Autumn Dinner

Last Sunday evening, 29 RWS Members and their guests assembled at the Bankside Gallery for the annual Autumn Dinner. Sixty four people sitting at eight tables had a delicious candle lit supper provided by the latest up and coming restaurant … Continue reading

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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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Dot / Dash / Doodle / Splash

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It’s much harder than it looks to produce an interesting array of splashes, and spoldges. It took me all afternoon and I haven’t got very far – did enjoy it though.

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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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The Blues

Blues – hard to get the right one. So many different colour blues and phrases: The Blues, Blue eyed boy, Blue moon, Blue lady, Deep blue sea, Sky blue, Blues in the night, Little Boy Blue ……….

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