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About Guthlac

An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can

In praise of Nicholas Sparks

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Guthlac

… the scenes of a group of teenage and 20-something women sharing a featureless suburban house in Florida, watched over by an apparently amiable, eerily blank young talent agent who is a combination of concierge and pimp, are authentic and … Continue reading →

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Star Wars….a new hope

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Guthlac

This morning I finally caught the new Star Wars movie and it was everything a long term Star Wars fan would want.   There is one significant plot twist but apart from that it really was as if the prequels … Continue reading →

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Mr Grey sky please tell us why?

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Guthlac

  Dad daa dad da da daaa As a very famous song goes.  I blame the continual grey weather for yesterday’s rant about how 2016 was already shaping up to being a bit of a shit.  All very gloomy and … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Guthlac

So here we go again. A New Year and yet the same old story is being peddled to death – Corbyn is crap and dangerous and now is going to purge all the sane minded members of his shadow cabinet … Continue reading →

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Sanguine, Debbie and Back to the Future

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Guthlac

Tis the season to make outlandish resolute statements of good intent only for them not to be fulfilled.  So here goes!   I’m going make a lot more drawings and sketches using Conte sanguine – there I said it and … Continue reading →

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Carrying on a mythos theme

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Guthlac

Water nymph and wood sprite.  Of course as these are supernatural creatures there is no way of knowing just what they look like.

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MIxed Cultures

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Guthlac

Lililu and Gaia – exploring my prehistoric instincts.  

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What is going on?

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Guthlac

  Some of the sketches and paintings I made over the Christmas period.

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Introducing the Saul Family

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Guthlac

Tomas Saul Sally Saul Susannah Saul Caroline Saul I haven’t the first clue who the Saul family are nor what they do.  I have no idea where this will go but these drawings seemed to make sense as a family.  Let’s … Continue reading →

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It’s a very very mad world

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Guthlac
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