A Waiting Game

A Waiting Game

by | May 11, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, oil, painting, pastels, Remembrance

The exhibition is over, the work either delivered to patrons or stacked in the garage. In the 12 days it was on 400 people came to see the show, and I sold a dozen pieces, including one of the large drawings. Biggest surprise of all was when my partner demanded that...
Cut and Run

Cut and Run

by | Mar 8, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, oil, painting, pastels

I’ve been playing with cutting up and collaging imagery. I have been using an Albers-like square to explore colour in plants from the garden. Sometimes I have been mixing the mark with imagery directly, not in the sense of filling colour into the image but treating...
Hanging About

Hanging About

by | Mar 3, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, pastels

I rarely drive across a drawbridge. Especially one where the door have to be held back, their ancient bolt heads securing the planks barely an inch either side of the car. All the while martial music played through the loudspeakers. The rutted cobbles made the...
It’s all a Performance

It’s all a Performance

by | Feb 17, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting

The British NHS is a bit like flypaper. Once it wraps itself around you there is no escape. Don’t get me wrong – the Health Service saved my life as a child in the 1950’s with an early application of antibiotics, despite my apparently being at death’s door. It...