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This train

Posted on January 25, 2017 by

Buying a new sketch book skews the work I am producing at the moment…to put it another way I have a new toy and I want to take it out for a little run.   I bought this new sketch … Continue reading →

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Summer Son

Posted on April 19, 2014 by

I have no idea where this came from…I just sat down this afternoon and started to draw – before I knew where I was she had appeared on the page.  Exactly what the painting is about is as much a … Continue reading →

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The addiction of Pinterest

Posted on April 14, 2014 by

If you haven’t discovered Pinterest then perhaps you should.  It is a great way of storing images that you find on the Internet in one place to use as a resource.  There have been one or two copyright concerns and … Continue reading →

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Something strange happened the other day

Posted on March 6, 2014 by

  I started a new short course at my local art centre the other week and something strange seems to have happened – I’m moving away from figurative to the more abstract…I wonder where that came from?    

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A new Idea

Posted on October 3, 2013 by

I went for a rather agreeable lunch today at my favourite National Trust property, Calke Abbey.  As I was doing this a germ of an idea for a new project was planted in my brain   ‘…How about making a … Continue reading →

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Seems I’m a bit of a pornographer

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

WARNING:  This blog contains images that some people might find offensive.  If you are one of these people then do not look any further….you have been warned. It seems that me and Larry Flynt are the same.  We pedel pornographic … Continue reading →

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Iron Age, Art and Photography

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

It’s been a bit of a bizarre few days. My new car arrived and I have spent quite bait of time driving around in it. Yesterday, for the first time in my motoring career the windscreen was cracked by a flying object on the motorway – this is real fr… Continue reading →

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Trying to make sense of all these isms

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

The more galleries and art I see the more my head has been befuddled by the different groups, styles and titles, Cubism or post expressionism or pointillism etc ( as you can see I have been looking at at lot of late 19th and early 20th century art… Continue reading →

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The eyes have it

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

This art bug is really starting to bite. I have just tried to make my first painting. Of course being me I decided to use Photoshop for a number of reasons. So how did I do? Well better than I would have thought. However, as with every new adventu… Continue reading →

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