Post exhibition block?

Don’t seem to be able to paint since the exhibition – horrible feeling. Good news that one of my paintings – the one that was on the flier and which didn’t sell – has been accepted into a competition at the Marsden. I have to take it along next week. Now I have a couple … Read more

Post-exhibition …

Well what now? I have the 50 paintings I sold to deliver or send or to arrange to have collected – fairly time consuming. And then later this afternoon I am taking six paintings to my local coffee shop – the Coffee Plant in Portobello Road. They are going to hang them on the wall … Read more

End of exhibition

I can’t believe that the exhibition which has taken up so much of my thought space for so long is finally over. It went really well – the Tabernacle is a great place to have  a show. Extremely friendly and nice staff – and a very good cafe and restaurant – so people coming to … Read more

Exhibition

Still time to come to my exhibition at the Tabernacle, 34-35 Powis Square, W11 2AY. I should be there from 10 until about 8pm today – Thursday 14th – and from 10 until 6pm Friday 15th and from 10 until 4pm on Saturday 16th when I shall be taking it down – and maybe selling … Read more

Christmas card

I was asked to paint a Christmas card (see below) in aid of the Westminster Lourdes pilgrimage. The cards, which are A5 size will be available in packs of 10 for £5.50. My friend Paul Stewart had an exhibition at the Tabernacle last week. He sold over 50 paintings – a triumph.

National Gallery

At the moment I am spending Tuesdays drawing in the National Gallery – a course run by the Princes Drawing School. Last Tuesday I sat in front of paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling and a painting attributed to Durer. This is my rendition of Rogier van der Weyden’s The Magdalen Reading – … Read more

Exhibition news

I have done the flier for my exhibition – suddenly the whole thing seems very soon. I’m waiting for cards from the printer …   The next thing to do is to photograph all the pictures that are going in the exhibition and post them onto Flickr.

Exhibition News

I’ve finally done the flier for my exhibition – I still need to do a few more paintings – but I am going to try and blog every day now in the lead up to November 11th …   Flyer 2013