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A Room With A View : My Week in View
This weekend and next I am showing work in a beautiful late Georgian London house with large, light rooms. Most people still acquire artworks for their immediate surroundings and it is always good to see paintings hanging in a great domestic space. The quality of...
Dulwich Festival : Artist Open House
Hosted by : Margi Woolford 204 Peckham Rye SE22 0LU Internationally acclaimed artist David Cottingham will show his much sort after landscape-inspired Abstract paintings together with his stunning Dance work. The ever-popular Dance Drawings will also be available in a...
The Eyes Have It : My Week in View
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...
The Sun is God : My Week in View
“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...
1914-2014 : A Century in View
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 generation's...
The Hands of Time : My Week in View
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,...