Collecting Artist Prints

Collecting Artist Prints

by | Dec 29, 2016 | art, art as language, Lifestyle

I have been a collector most of my life.  At ten I was collecting matchbox toys. At 12 it was British and Commonwealth postage stamps. At 16 it was Cypriot wine bottle labels. In art college, I began looking at collecting the work of other artists, starting with work...
Aftershocks

Aftershocks

by | Dec 1, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting

Slowly, slowly I am getting back to working in the studio. I am generally an optimist, some have called me a gambler, a risk taker, but that has been my life, and has enabled me to advance both in art and design, and to succeed, fail, succeed again in business. Cancer...
What do you paint?

What do you paint?

by | Nov 10, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, painting

Classic question, isn’t it? Everyone’s response when you say you paint, occasionally bitten off halfway through when the questioner realises the foolishness of asking.  “I do flower paintings” is my standard riposte to this question. An answer as misleading as the...
Shock to the System

Shock to the System

by | Oct 18, 2016 | art, Lifestyle, painting

It’s just on three months since I had the nephrostomy. Three months with a catheter into my kidney draining wastes into a bag strapped to my leg.  Three months of this sploshing as a half full bag of piss moves against my leg as I walk. Three months of this warm damp...
Art Flowering

Art Flowering

by | Oct 11, 2016 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, painting, photography

Eighteen months is a long time, in any world not just, as they say, in politics. In the Seaford art world it is bringing changes as the Crypt Gallery becomes a trust, the gallery being leased by the council to a charitable trust formed by the Friends. Eighteen months...