A Black Eyed Susan plant, alongside Mr Bailey the cat, keeps me company in my home studio/conservatory. It’s been doing well in the conservatory environment and I finally got around to painting it yesterday after being encouraged to by my wife for several months. The Black Eyed Susan is a delicate thing – the merest…
Month: Sep 2014
The Satisfaction in the Completion of an Old Painting
Sometimes I feel like I’m going round in circles with a painting – applying layer after layer of paint and never getting any closer to finishing. Occasionally under such circumstances I’ll leave a painting indefinitely. This is one such painting, which I started and left sometime last year. I was searching for something, but I…
Moh-Mariko
It’s been taking me increasingly long to complete paintings, a good example of which is a 20” x 30” painting of some water lilies which took me around 6 months from start to finish between February and August this year. As an antidote to this sloth-like working pace, I set myself a challenge this week…
Four Ducks in Search of Adventure
Over the last four years I have donated work to two ‘Stars on Canvas’ art auctions in aid of the Willow Foundation, a national charity raising money to facilitate special days for seriously ill young adults. More on the foundation can be read here: http://www.willowfoundation.org.uk. Participating artists are asked to complete a work of art…
Three Sunflowers in a Glass Vase
I started running painting workshops from our home in the Wirral recently. To date the structure of each workshop has followed a similar basic pattern, with students attempting a copy of an ‘old master’ painting in the morning, followed by the painting of a new work from life (or photographs) utilising the same approach during…
Drawing Upon Life 