The second Embassy Court picture is finished! I’m really loving that colour. Painting bricks and mortar doesn’t give me the opportunity to use green very often so it made a nice change.  Hopefully they will be nice enough to hang at the Art and Soul exhibition but we’ll have to wait and see which paintings Sue Barnes wants.
This morning I received the super-swanky invitations for the Brighton and Palace Art Fairs! They’re gorgeous and will, no doubt, entice you along to the shows in September and October like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn. Okay, that maybe an overstatement but they do look very nice. If you’d like to get one in the post, email me your details and I’ll send them asap. But be warned, you’ll have to be quick as they’ll get snapped up. I also have Free Friday and 2 for 1 tickets should you be unavailable on the Private View nights. I’ll bring some along to Art and Soul so you can always get some there x

The first part of my new Embassy Court paintings that I’m doing for Art and Soul, is ready and the second half is well under way. I’m hoping to get a couple more new works finished before then but you’ll just have to come along and see which ones get chosen for the hang.
Very much looking forward to exhibiting in Falmer again, not least because when you help out with the preparations, we get to go for egg and chips at the pub. Delicious.
On a practical note, I’m updating my mailing list so if you would like to be on it, email me with your preferred email and also your postal address so I can send you some super sexy stuff in the post, once in a while. I won’t bombard you or give out your details, so fear not.

So,  August has arrived a lot sooner than anticipated. How does the year manage to go so quickly?

It’s been non-stop here but without as much painting as I’d like so I’m going to be doing my best to get down to it this week.  I’ve got a couple of great Embassy Court images lined up. For those that don’t know, it’s a fab 1930’s Art Deco building on Brighton seafront. I’m doing something a little bit abstract with it. Dark night-time windows and low lit corridors, that kind of thing.

I’ve also been trying out some oil painting which is new to me and so different, not only on the technical side but I opted to try out some nudes for a change so I’ve been getting to grips with flesh, if you’ll excuse the double entendre. It’s fun but so challenging. I hope you’ll like it.

So last weekend was the Bristol Affordable Art Fair and it was a blast.
Patsy Dixon and her husband Clive who run The Liberty Gallery, did all the hard work, organising and hanging the stand, while I just rocked up at the last minute and lounged around talking to visitors and taking long lunches. It was great to get the time to have a proper look around the show, something that’s virtually impossible when you have to organise and man an art fair stand by yourself. I hadn’t attended the event before and can thoroughly recommend it. The atmosphere was really friendly and relaxed, not unlike the city itself.
The new work was very well received which was a bit of a relief as I hadn’t had the time to really evaluate it myself and getting to hang next to Ben Allen was rather nice too. But the best bit of the whole experience for me was being across from Kirsty Wither on the Cameron Contemporary Art stand who attended the event with Tiger, the best behaved dog of all time. Getting to lie on the floor and get some R&R with a fluffy puppy during the quiet moments was heavenly.
I had such a good time, it was almost like taking the weekend off.
Almost.

Welcome to my new website.

Orlando at Out of Nowhere Design has worked miracles to get it ready and it looks even better than I could have imagined. Hopefully this version will be easier to navigate, clearer in terms of which work is available to buy and which you’ve missed out on, and will have more up to date news and events.

I’ll be periodically posting photos of ongoing work and writing some stuff on this page about painting and my process. If you’d like to know anything about what I do and how I do it, email me a question and I’ll try and answer it here.

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’til next time x