Image: TV PRESENTER WITH BROWN SHADES. Acrylic on Handmade Paper. 1985. Thought I would stop preaching for a change and give you something to read. Paintings like the one above often give me ideas about the people in them. This is a prose poem I found in an old sketch book, based on an imaginary…
Image: The Three Graces. Mixed Media Collage. 20 x 20 cm. 2010. GRACE. This overpainted collage is a tongue in cheek take on the three graces, a favourite subject of artists and sculptures since the original Greek work of 2C BC. Grace has always been a human attribute that is treasured, accepting with grace the…
Image: Photo, Art shop Melbourne, Australia. 2017. A SENSE OF PROPORTION. Imposed isolation gives us time to ponder on what is important in life. The preservation of art and culture may be something to consider. Quotes come from: (Rian Hughes from the book: CULT-URE ). ‘From a practical standpoint, art if functionally useless, -no-one ever…
Image: Donald ( My phone is bigger than yours ) Trump. Assemblage. 2018 NEWS FLUSH: Trump breaks into the art world.
Image. Guitar Case decorated with African fabrics. 2019. COVER UP. This guitar case was bought at the Totnes Christmas market and I set about brightening it up with fabric scraps, so there’s an idea for you to fill the lockdown time. It doesn’t have a guitar in it though, which reminds me that you can’t…
Image: KITE LADY DANCING. 2014. Watercolour and Gouache on handmade paper. Private Collection Devon. This little painting deserves a poem and so I’ve written one today. As they say in Strictly, ‘KEEP DANCING’. DANCING. The kite lady dances on the stage, without a care she turns and spins, lost in the music that the piper plays,…
Image: View from our front window in Devon. THE COPPER BEECH. This magnificent copper beech wakes us up with a red glow which fills the house as sunlight passes through the leaves. It is at least 150 years old, perhaps older,and the home for so much wildlife. Beech trees provide important food and homes for…
Image: CREAM GREEN DREAM. Mixed Media on Canvas. 26 x 36 cm. 2007 DREAMS It seems to many that we are living in a dream or some strange sci fi film at the moment. Our worlds have been turned upside down with no idea of when we will find our feet. Plenty of budding mind…
Image: Parks and Gardens. Acrylic on Canvas. 120 x 100 cm. 2019. FLOWER POWER. There is no doubt that we need to keep our parks open and the recent announcement to that effect was both welcome and eminently sensible. In this blog I have mentioned before the plight of people cooped up in properties without…
Image: PAINTED POEM 2 and 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2019 PRIDE. They say that pride comes before a fall, which is understandable if it is solely for your own achievements but pride in your children achievements is surely admissible, at least this proud father thinks so. If you have children I am sure you…
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