Tag Archives: colour

April Showers

We have a hose pipe ban in London and other areas of the UK. Since this was brought in earlier this month it has rained almost every day. This is good for the garden and everything looks really green and … Continue reading

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Chelsea Art Fair

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These paintings will be on The Russell Gallery stand at the Chelsea Art Fair 20 – 22 April Chelsea Old Town Hall,London, SW3 5EE 11-8pm Friday / Sat & Sun 11-7pm

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Garden Open Today

   Another open day over – we made around £1000.00 for the various charities the National Garden Scheme supports – same time next year! Thank you to everyone who supported us.

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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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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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ACEOs

ACEO stands for Art Cards, Editions and Originals. An ACEO must be 3.5 x 2.5″ and were originally created to trade between artists. Another size is 6 x 4″, and I have recently made three as a start.        … Continue reading

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