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...
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...
Another day, another poppy

Another day, another poppy

by | Sep 6, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art

I am an early riser. I normally wake around 6.30 and wander downstairs in my dressing gown. Usually I pick up a camera and head into the garden to take my morning photograph. The camera is heavy, the back door locked, the cat demanding. The cat is given a thorough...
Remembering the Poppy

Remembering the Poppy

by | Aug 28, 2016 | art, Op Art, painting

I guess this work started four or five years ago, predating moving to Seaford. What a blessing my love gave me when she bought me the studio as a present for Christmas in 2013, six months after we moved in. I remember the giggles as she tied the door shut with a gold...