Tag: Painting
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We Are The Champions……………3
1.5.12 Day 2 The journey to school took an hour thanks to a traffic jam on the Parkway, I arrived at 9.25 and my first job of the day was to complete the drawing in of the design. An hour later this had been achieved and I began mixing two contrasting grey tones using the…
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We Are The Champions……………1
My mission, if I chose to accept it, was a mural, an invitation from Iain Erskine, Head of Fulbridge School, Peterborough. The theme – ‘Champions of Humanity’. The catch – that it would be painted in a corridor during a normal school day, with staff and children watching its progress as they went about their…
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The Boys are Back in Town
‘Is it worth going all the way to London to visit just one exhibition?’ My stamina levels since my prolonged stay in hospital had been at an all time low. Whether I could walk the required distances and last a full day out was also a big question to ask myself. Nevertheless it was a…
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Whatever Sincerely
The end of a busy freelance artworking week at Southern United in deepest, darkest, dirtiest Portslade. Spending over 40 hours sitting in the Drawing Office hot seat staring at a computer screen wasn’t the most relaxing 5 days but the company is always welcoming and entertaining. The Friday night reward this time around however was…
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Knowing Me, Knowing You
Visiting Vienna, a change of routine and a change of temperature. Saturday morning, and a meeting with Frida Kahlo. My first encounter was in 1977 and it was accidental. At that time I was actively involved with mural painting and researching the work of the Mexican Mural Renaissance, my immediate interest being the work of…