by admin | May 6, 2014 | Dance Paintings, Drawings, News
I love to photograph and draw the eyes. The power of eye contact is in our DNA, they are truly the gateway to the soul. When you first learn to draw portraits you are always taught not to begin with the eyes, for good reason, they have a direct power which should not...
by admin | Apr 25, 2014 | News
“the Sun is God” are said to be the moving last words uttered by Joseph Mallord William Turner, in my opinion the greatest painter these islands have ever produced. It was his birthday this week, which amazingly he shares with Shakespeare and St Georges Day. Quite a...
by admin | Apr 20, 2014 | Abstract Paintings, Dance Paintings, Drawings, News
We are currently surrounded by a stream of media memories of the outbreak of the first World War. My own father, born in 1901, was just too young to serve in that war but he was to serve with honour in the Desert Campaign of the next. Through him and his...
by admin | Apr 10, 2014 | Dance Paintings, Drawings
Art is never still, always moving. I often work on a piece over several weeks, changing and overpainting. The work evolves until it speaks directly. Progress is an uncertain thing, evolution is a better word. Art of course has evolved, every age has its contemporary,...
by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | Abstract Paintings
In a week of troubled and darker skies I have finished painting a sunrise. The sun is our constant source of light and life. It never fails us and inspires awe in its power and grandeur. John Donne wrote wonderfully about our Suns eternal source in his poem...
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