Lear’s Luminous Dong Noses
Saturday afternoons have had a special fascination for me since my teens when after a game of football on a flattened out coal tip in the freezing rain I used to catch the Nantymoel and Garw buses back to Bridgend (or from Indian Country to Civilization as they cruelly called it back then). Art student […]
A Dream Come True : …Midsomer Murders
Last Sunday at the end of a long hot and sweaty day in my studio….I collapsed in front of the tv with a glass of chilled wine and was delighted to read in the paper that Midsomer Murders had just started. I have always been fascinated by Soaps, Prisoner Cell Block H a choice de […]
Applying For Art School (Foundation to MA)
Many friends and colleagues have pointed out that I have omitted to tell everyone that I offer private tutorial/portfolio advice. It can be from home or depending on distance I can visit. This can take the form of portfolio advice, drawing classes or helping how to compile one’s statement. Fees for visits are marginally more expensive […]
Nazi Collanders
During the terrible period of the German occupation of Amsterdam circa 1945 due to the shortages of food and scarcity of nearly everything these Nazi helmuts were put to ingenius good use. Photo taken in the Dutch Resitance Museum, Amsterdam.
Cuckmere Marionettes
A watercolour made many years ago. The bandaged figure on the right was inspired by a papier mache figure made by a friend’s young daughter for a school project. It was subsequently used in my photo narrative ‘Invisible Lives’. The floating figure is based on several slip cast bronze sculptures.
Who Said Rape Seed Fields Are An Eyesore?
One of two photos taken for C.P.R.E. (The Campaign For The Protection Of Rural England)
The Drollest Invite
This must be one of the most drollest invites to the opening of a new studio ever. You can easily overlook the reversed English on the right hand side of the image. When I first handed it by one of the team (the same people who designed Pavel Makov’s website) I only acknowledged the graphic […]
Uncle Ellis
Having taught life drawing for so many years (but no longer) I developed a knack for for quickly assessing students'measurement inaccuracies and able to point them out. Not so easy with one's own work.: maybe this the way forward? Something fascinating in seeing the first attempt at the subject being painted sitting alongside their portrait. […]
Sgt Pepper
Rose and Dan’s superb cockerel. He struts his stuff around the beautiful Broadland home of Wheatfen, south east of Norwich.Wheatfen is the former home of Ted and Phyllis Ellis…now adjoined to to Ted Ellis Trust. When I saw him last month, lord of his manor, huge and all alpha male and strikingly handsome, his harem […]
