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Highlights of my Art Exhibition. Meeting the Mayor and Mayoress of Harrogate 2021 and discussing art and getting to know them. Having an opportunity to sit down and sketch them both for studies for a later painting I hope to present to them. Showing some of my portraits and local landscape paintings whilst continuing withContinue reading “My Great Yorkshire Show Exhibition 2021”

June July August and September My Methods of working towards a collection of local landscape paintings. Brimham Rocks in the Yorkshire Dales. Sketching, taking photos, walking, talking and drawing and painting plein air at Brimham Rocks

Changed my Bio slightly for Weetons Food Hall. My paintings are still on the walls and have now been there for all of June July and August. I feel very privileged to have had such a great opportunity to show my work there.

I don’t like my art materials and work half finished put away in a cupboard like this. I feel like it is putting it all out of reach creatively. Non creative people do not understand all of this is a source of inspiration. I long for the day I can have a studio of myContinue reading “Art Cupboard”

Yet again I am on the move. It used to be in my personal life I moved counties, countries, homes and now its studios. I understand loss! and I don’t like change because I have had so much of it in my past. But I have been evicted out of my home studio at homeContinue reading “Studio Eviction”

Buying new art equipment is so exciting. I bought some new coloursoft and inktense pencils to use in my sketchbook. I wanted something that was cleaner to use than pastels so I could sketch on the train or whilst on a walk etc. Now having so much fun jotting down my ideas. Not sure ifContinue reading “New Pencils for my sketch books”

Set off early this morning to pick up one of my large paintings from Weetons. I felt that the final exhibition needed it. It’s an example of how I jumped from one idea to another.

The build up for my small solo exhibition at The Great Yorkshire Show Stand 433 at Wandahome. The marque is now being put up approximately 6m sq. The lads have been great pulling together at short notice after the other firm we booked cancelled due to COVID. So I am very lucky. Also the bigContinue reading “The Great Yorkshire Show”

Got my frames delivered and packed some of my drawings ready to hang !

Deciding where the marque is going on our Wandahome stand No 433 . We had to decide where the motorhomes would go and where the doors of the marque were going to be and where my paintings would hang and where the kitchen would be. Made a Waitrose food order to arrive Monday morning soContinue reading “The Great Yorkshire Show”