Gas Gallery/Oriel Nwy, Aberystwyth , October 2014

Three pics sent to me by a visitor to the Open Drawing Competition exhibition last week.
Two paintings to be exhibited at BEEP, Painting Biennial
As from October 10th, two paintings that were selected for the National Open Competition can be seen at Swansea’s Elysium Contemporary Art Gallery. The theme of the exhibition is ‘The Artist As…’ My paintings are entitled The Artist As Border Patroller’ [see PAINTINGS on Homepage].
Nelson [2]
![Nelson [2] Nelson [2]](https://davidreesdavies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IMG_4914-150x150.jpg)
Nelson, arguably the cutest, friendliest,most exquisite comical dog in the world, who could make a fortune on tv ads… and visitor to the Bow Runner pub [2nd drawing] from sketchbook
Nelson [1]
![Nelson [1] Nelson [1]](https://davidreesdavies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IMG_4915-150x150.jpg)
Nelson, arguably the cutest, friendliest, most exquisite comical dog in the world, who could make a fortune on tv ads… and visitor to the Bow Runner pub [ist drawing] from sketchbook
Ostriches in South Africa

Ostriches running in front of my car. South Africa, 1998. Gouache on paper
Namibian wildfowl

In Namibia recently, A hastily painted water fowl within an hour of finding it by the side of the [presumably it had been hit by a truck]. The poor bird was stinking to high heaven and I finished the watercolour/acrylic within an hour before burying it. What was extraordinary was its legs were literally like […]
Book launch

At last the book of poems by David Greenslade and accompanying pictures by thirty artists from around the world (including three drawings by yours truly) is being launched. The cover is by no other than the Naked Ape man Desmond Morris, zoologist and surrealist. Rarely Pretty Reasonable, Dark Windows Press, ISBN 978-1-909769-01-4, retail price: […]