My wife and I have been enjoying a new series on BBC iPlayer – Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel – in which interior designer Banjo Beale and his husband Ro turn a derelict building on the Isle of Ulva, off the coast of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, into a boutique…
Category: Acrylics
Elf In Search of a Shelf
Here’s a seasonal painting, depicting (I think) a toy Christmas elf on the shelf. Made as a demonstration piece for an online painting class a few years ago, it was painted in acrylics on canvas-texture paper, and measures around A5 (14.85 x 10.5 cm). From the looks of the actual elf who modelled for the…
Health benefits of fresh air and egrets
Feeling a bit under the weather lately (oh, poor me), I determined to take some air and partake of a brief constitutional along the Meols/Hoylake promenade on the Wirral coast, along which perambulation I passed this painting, which I made about 4 years ago. It’s one of several paintings made by Wirral artists – mainly…
Potter Joy
Dedicated Harry Potter fans both, my boys couldn’t wait to get their hands on a couple of Kinder Joys recently, to enjoy the yummy chocolate, and to (probably more importantly) discover the Potter figure secreted inside. Emerging from their chocolate egg encasement were 3.5 cm figures of Dumbledore himself and Severus Snape. I wanted to…
Finding Comfort in Painting
This painting, which I made in acrylics on A4 paper last year, depicts a comforter belonging to one of my children. I find recording in paint this stuff of childhood, comforting. Painting itself – which I don’t get much time for these days what with the more important demands of parenting, and a ‘proper job’…
Drawing Upon Life 