This exhibition will document the progress of ex students of T.B.G.S. who have been taught by F G Davis in the past. These art students have agreed to contribute to a joint exhibition to be held at The Ariel Centre in Totnes Devon, during the Devon Open Studios in September 20014. The ex students are…
Watercolour on Paper. 22x23cm. 2014. One of a recent series of watercolours I have been working on. Hope you like it. G
Women have always struggled to get their voice heard in a situation where men were in the majority in decision making. In the case of the latest struggle for justice and equality the test began with the Jimmy Savile case. This clearly highlighted the need for more to be done to legitimise the truth of accusations of sexual…
I visited the Tate Modern to see the Paul Klee exhibition at the this year. He was my significant and primary introduction to abstract art in the 1960s and has influenced my work ever since. For me he bridges the gap between free expressionism in abstraction and a considered and scientific analysis of composition. He…
This piece used a box which came with a cup I bought from the Cavern Club in Liverpool in 2011. The work evokes the typical northern skyline, the dark satanic mills of Lancashire, indelibly etched on my childhood memories; a legacy of the industrial north of England with its mills, shipyards and factories which have…
Inescapable. Life is inescapable, we live, we die, we love, we try to find the ways we can fulfil our promise as the days pass by. To find the person that we are, to reach that bright illusive star, to make the most of what we have before this mortal toil has passed. We make…
This is a painting using business cards from Maze, Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant in London. My youngest son worked there as a chef under Jason Atherton. He now works for Sat Bains in Nottingham, to be featured on tonight’s masterchef the professionals on BBC 1. Though his skills in cooking have been due in a large…
SOME WANT LESS. In this world we strive, I guess, and some want more and some want less, and some want what they think they’ve earned and some want more than just returns, and some want all they think is theirs and some want more than they can hope, and some want nothing but a…
This is the third dressing table I have completed featuring my patchwork fabric designs. It is an original 1930s, two drawer, three mirrored piece, with original Deco handles and wonderful turned front feet. Glam rock meets Retro. Soon to be on sale in Teignmouth at: http://www.thebloodychicofit.co.uk/
FACEBOOK FRIENDS. We have so many face book friends, tell of their daily trials to live a normal life, and make amends for all the things they should have done before real life got in the way. They pour out all the problems that they face every day, from what to eat for breakfast to…
