The virus has embarked on a new phase provoking more controversy and lively debate as countries learn more about the nature of Covid 19 and its symptoms. We now know that in many cases people have had it and displayed no signs of the virus whatsoever so may have transmitted Continue Reading
Goya
April 2017 Blog An encounter with Paula Rego, Portraits and Storytelling
I’ve lost confidence in the last few weeks about my ability to achieve consistently good likenesses with my portrait painting. My success rate at the moment in the last three attempts is not good – Dame Judi Dench poor, Syd Barrett poor, Dame Paula Rego reasonable. Some artists are able Continue Reading
January 2017 A brighter, better year perhaps?.
By general consent 2016 was not a good year and I’m not going to mention many of the grim world issues or celebrity deaths or trivia that have preoccupied the media, social included, during the last twelve months. Suffice it to say that the words “peace”, “hope”, “equality”, “justice”, “freedom”, Continue Reading
December Blog – Goya and his portraits
I had always thought my knowledge of Goya was fairly substantial as, not only had I seen many of his works in the Prado, Madrid, but I had also studied the “Disasters of War” series of his etchings at the British Museum, sketched a few of his works and read Continue Reading
October 2015 Blog
September came and went so quickly that I didn’t have time to do many of the things I had planned for that month, except that we did book and spend what turned out to be a wonderful holiday in Italy and France. There was little room to consume any art Continue Reading
May 2015 Blog
I’m unable to paint at the moment due to house redecoration duties which must take priority! I have had a little time, however, to look back over some old work and the period when I tried some life drawing and painting. For me this subject has always been a challenging Continue Reading