What is an Open Exhibition? Society of Graphic Fine Artists Open, Mall Galleries, London. 13 – 18 March 2023Three works: Hawthorn Reverie, Ground Level, Into the Light The Base Festival of Arts and Crafts, Greenham, Newbury. 1-16 April 2023One work: Palisade AppArt, Godalming, Surrey. 1…
Continue reading Open Exhibitions 2023
Multistorey is a drawing of Hartley Mauditt Lane in East Hampshire, from the vantage of a public footpath that runs alongside and above the sunken lane itself. The drawing is in Indian ink on a full Imperial size sheet of handmade Sunn Hemp paper. It…
Continue reading Multistorey
The hawthorn tree is in the top corner of a steeply sloped field, right next to a public footpath and the kissing gate that admits walkers. It’s a venerable tree, and I would guess, from its appearance and poistion, that it was once part of…
Continue reading Hawthorn Reverie – SOLD
Sylva’s run at the New Era theatre has been extended to 04 February 2023, with two more coffee mornings (21 January and 04 February) at the venue, both 10:30 to 12 noon. The Newbury Weekly News published an article about the exhibition this week and…
Continue reading Sylva Extended
I have put together an illustrated list of the works included in Sylva, my solo exhibition at the New Era theatre in Newbury. It includes the exhibition statement and my artist’s statement, as displayed in the exhibition, as well as titles, media and prices. It…
Continue reading SYLVA Exhibition – Illustrated list of works
SOLO EXHIBITION 21 October – 22 December 2022 at NEW ERA theatre, Newbury – EXTENDED to 04 February 2023 The word “sylva” means “the trees in a certain area”. As such, it seemed like the perfect title for an exhibition of my tree drawings, which…
Continue reading SYLVA
This is a fun little series of acrylic paintings on canvas, intended to complement my tree drawings. The first of these little paintings, Three hazelnuts, was made at the behest of The Prince’s Trust, who sell these specially created 20x20cm canvases for a fixed price…
Continue reading Things That Fall Off Trees
Thursday It’s tomorrow! I intend to update this post with photographs etc after the weekend is done. Right now I am a bit nervous, but I know that it will be okay – I will enter what I call the “art fair bubble” and nothing…
Continue reading Surrey Art Fair, Autumn 2022
Southampton 2 July – 10 September I’m really pleased that my painting, the “Cabinet of Culturosities” was accepted for the biennial Southampton City Art Gallery Open. This is a themed exhibition, and the theme is, “What does culture mean to you?” It was difficult to…
Continue reading Open Exhibitions 2022 (part two)
It’s always rather exciting when a piece submitted to an open exhibition is accepted, especially when the exhibition is in central London. (The downside of this is that it is necessary to visit central London.) I was delighted to get Here be Dragons into the…
Continue reading Open Exhibitions 2022 (part one)