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

9th July

A few paintings were added to the galleries yesterday. Two of the three works uploaded to the “People” gallery – “This House is Empty Now” and “The Other Woman”- are from songs where the main female figures sit on beds staring at the viewer, with landscapes, a portrait, still life Continue Reading