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…
href=”https://fgdavisblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ampuero-mixed-media-on-canvas-2010-labels-series-62.jpg”> THE SHADOW OF HISTORY. The spirit of a nation is indisputably intertwined with its images. Picasso recognised the power of the image of a Bull as a meaningful symbol of a nation at war, his Guernica empowered and inspired a nation to fight against oppression and injustice. I saw the painting in The Reina…
This work was produced in 2011 and is mixed Media on Card, 15x15cm. It was about regrets, those things we didn’t do but perhaps aught to have done, and today thank the lord we didn’t. We will never know if what we did or didn’t do would change the course of our lives, but the…
TROUBLE IN PARADISE. Labels Series 55. (Bia Bia) Bia Bia. This restaurant is one of the best in Bali, It cooks the sea food for you, fresh, where you sit in virtual heaven served right on the beach palm trees waving while you sit on tables with parasols in the sun overlooking the majestic Indian…
ALL SAINTS. We can’t all be saints however we try, our moments of wickedness tell us that, however we strive to cover our tracks our moments of wickedness keep coming back. But angels see all behind their lace curtains, and tabloids will publish the picture for certain, and people in glass houses will throw stones,…
REACHING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD. Going back to the womb, examining the scan, finding out just who you were before your life began. What became of unborn you before life took its toll? Where now the child that saw the wonder of it all? Now cynical, now clinical, now sadly worldly wise, we can only…
A faded photograph from the 50s and a more recent poem about turning into dad. THE MAN IN GREY. I’m becoming the man that my father was, becoming the man in grey, and all the colours I wore in my youth are slowly fading away. I’m becoming the man that my father was, I once…
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