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Visiting friends’ studios
Last weekend I went to see my friend Iain Herdman’s studio over in Woolwich as Second Floor Studios where he is based were having Open Days. I hadn’t seen any of his new work and it was fascinating how the change of locale has brought in a difference in colour and subject matter. His new [...]
Storing Up Studies
What with summer holidays, portrait commissions and now half-term it has been difficult in the last few months to find time to work on the still lifes. What I have been doing however is storing up ideas and making studies. I find doing studies is invaluable for experimenting with colour and fine-tuning the composition. Here [...]
Only the Crumbliest Flakiest Chocolate..
Lake District Poppies When I tell people at my son’s school that I’m an artist I’m sure they think that I waft about painting watercolours in a field full of poppies while eating Cadbury’s Flakes (you have to be a certain age to remember that commercial). Not only do I not have the figure to [...]
How Long Has This Been Going On?
Well, since May! That’s the last time I blogged and when I started work on this linocut. It then got put to one side due to portrait commissions, summer holidays, preparing for an exhibition and having the builders in my studio for a month. It’s only taken six months but now it is finally finished [...]
Falling in love again…
…with a technique I haven’t used since I was a student. I have just started experimenting with linocuts for the first time in years. I think it’s the sheer graphic quality of them I like, and the challenge of reducing an image down to the bare essentials. I started with a familiar motif, love hearts, [...]