Image: MOON OVER ANTUGNAC. Mixed Media on Canvas. 60 x 60 x 4 cm. 2016. Private Collection. TRAVEL. Yesterday I had a Zoom interview with Julie Brandon from the Artizan Gallery in Torquay. As one of her longstanding stable of artists, interviews are a lockdown initiative enabling artists to be a feature on the galleries…
Image: TODDLERS RACE. Gouache on Handmade Paper. 1986/7. STAY ALERT, CONTROL THE VIRUS, SAVE SCHOOLS. The race is on to open up our schools before the 1st June, starting with Nurseries, ( so far confined to the children of key workers) and Years 1 and 6 in Primary Schools. Also from June, the Government web…
Image: THOSE WIRELESS KNOBS. Mixed Media on Canvas, 60 x 60 x 4 cm. 2012. Private Collection, Cornwall. THOSE WIRELESS KNOBS. If you associate like me and Van Morrison that wireless belong to the days of rock and roll, think again. As Wikipedia explains: The term wireless has been used twice in communications history, with slightly different…
Image: THE LAND OF THE TORS. Mixed Media on Canvas. 60 x 60 x 4 cm. 2012 FREEDOM TO ROAM. Before I mount my familiar political soapbox, let me describe Dartmoor. The name ‘tor’ refers to a granite outcrop of which there are about 170 on Dartmoor which was designated as a National Park in…
Image: DON’T YOU WISH YOUR DAUGHTER WAS HOT LIKE MINE. Mixed Media Collage. 15 x 15 cm. 2015. LOOKING HOT IN LOCKDOWN. If you are still in lockdown because you can’t work out if the message means you should or should not go to work, and did they mean yesterday or tomorrow, or if can’t…
Image: BIKES TO BE MENDED. Gouache on Paper. ( for Reuben) July 29th 1989. Following Boris’ anticlimactic ‘First Steps’ broadcast yesterday I was reminded of the much more important first steps all those of us who have children treasure. However important the ‘unlocking’ process seems today, nothing can compare with our children’s first steps in…
Image: COB AND THATCH. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2019. STAYING HOME. How often have you said ‘ It’s a small world’? Being in isolation may well have changed your mind. Most of us know family and friends who seem to be a lot further away than they were before, be they in the nearest town…
Image: LITTLE FRENCH INTERIOR. Acrylic on Handmade Paper. 2019. ZOOM has come into a lot of our lives lately as a way new way of connecting with a number of friends and family. Despite it providing a new challenge for the digitally challenged, it has been a lifeline for many experiencing the isolation of lockdown.…
Image: CAR TAX. Watercolour and Gouache on paper. 1982. SORRY WE MISSED YOU. Before the lockdown my wife and I saw a film directed by Ken Loach written by Paul Laverty called ‘Sorry we missed you’. If you haven’t seen it I would recommend you look it up. It’s not an easy watch but it…
Image. Detail of painting: Ancient Archways. 2019/20. THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAIL. As we prepare for an announcement on how to begin to exit the lockdown it is widely felt that locking down will probably have been easier than what is to come. With 30 thousand deaths reported yesterday, the highest total in Europe so…
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