Tag: Landscape painting
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Gladiator Mural (Parts 1&2) at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester 20.2 – 5.5.17 Hard on the heels of the ‘Once Upon A Time‘ mural, my brief for this follow-on project was to transform the appearance of a fairly narrow and very busy corridor and create a taste of Tuscany, a landscape filled with grapevines and…
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Seasons Change
Landmarks & Milestones: A Painter’s Progress 5-29 October 2015 • The Castle, Wellingborough NN8 1XA Our lives follow a meandering path, taking us in different and unexpected directions. This retrospective exhibition is an opportunity to reflect upon a painting career that has incorporated a variety of subjects and activities, with dramatic changes in scale. From…
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A Thousand Trees
Epping Forest Corporation of London Christmas Card Commission 2001 & 02 Centuries of leaves In a cathedral of trees Carpeted with breeze * Alone in a crowd Light dim. A face peers out From a crumpled skin * Ticker tape welcome Confetti fluttering like Pennies from Heaven * Rockin’ and Rollin’ Arms raised, Hallelujah’in Tall,…
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Three Little Birds
Caribbean Crete 16 – 22 May 2015 “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right. Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right! “ Rise up this mornin’, Smile with the risin’ sun, Three little birds Pitch by my doorstep Singin’ sweet songs Of…
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Picture This
Image making workshops at Dogsthorpe Junior School – Landscape & Seascape 22 & 23.5.14 A couple of days working with children from year 4 at Dogsthorpe Junior School, Peterborough, to generate some ‘Landscape’ and ‘Seascape’ images following an invitation from Head Teacher Charlotte Krzanicki. The first day was spent using charcoal, the second chalk pastel. I…
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Take Me To The River
The Art of Poetry Two paintings, ‘Blue Salute Sunset. Turner Speaking From Beyond the Horizon’ & ‘Black Nene Willows’, included in a diverse exhibition of art inspired by poetry and accompanied by the poetry that inspired it. The exhibition, at Obsidian Art Gallery in Stoke Mandeville, will be open from Friday 21 March – Wednesday…
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Start Me Up
The Importance Of Being Nobby ‘If you start me upIf you start me up I’ll never stop, never stop, never, never, ever stop………….‘ Many of my paintings have a hidden story and the memory of producing them is often indelible, which is one reason why I find so much difficulty parting with them. This one…
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Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life 9.6.13 An afternoon with George Bellows at the Royal Academy, and an exhibition of contrasts. Gatherings in open spaces, and in claustrophobic cityscapes and interiors. Freezing winters, suffocating summers. Powerful, stark structures of a city metamorphosing into a modern age. The rural idyll of fields and sea. Urchins bathing…
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Black Night
The Oak and the Reed 20 August 2013 An afternoon visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and, as has become habit, after walking up the steps and passing through the swivel door main entrance I immediately made for the first floor galleries. My first priority each time I visit is to find a small painting…