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.
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 […]
Pavel Makov’s business card [circa 2009]
![Pavel Makov’s business card [circa 2009]](https://davidreesdavies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P1010218-150x150.jpg "Pavel Makov’s business card [circa 2009]")
I don’t know if my friend Pavel still uses this card….he now has a superb new website and an iPhone [which he tells me has changed his life enormously]. Back in Kiev three ago last Easter he gave me this…..but was keen to point out that under his Cyrillic initials PM reads …..’please note: I […]
Frank Evans
A portrait of the late Frank Evans (tutor on Foundation at Norwich School of Art circa 1980) drawn directly from life. He sadly died not long after sitting for me and was very keen to own a proof. He was a close neighbour of fellow colleague Chris Mullen. Chris was much amused by Frank’s curmudgeonly personality. […]
