‘Waiting, Wishing, Wanting’ completed. Happy New Year ! 1 Jan 2016

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A very happy new year to you all and thank you for your support as I go along with my great passion, my art. I am very excited about 2016 artwise for me and will tell you more as I go along. This piece, ‘Waiting, Wishing, Wanting’ is now finished and available on the website. I have been making use of glazes to get the depth of tone that I wanted and think I have achieved the right effect. Having the light source coming from one side makes for a more interesting composition and I want to work more along these lines. My next work is going to be a redhead and I am very excited about this. I have wanted to paint a redhead for sometime and had someone in mind to model for me, but in the meantime, Thomas Snow (@snowglobeman) one of my great supporters on Twitter asked whether I would like to use his wife as a model who is….a redhead. As a result, he has sent me some wonderful images of his beautiful wife and I am very excited to be able to start a painting of her as my next work. Watch this space,…

Updated blog for new work week 2, which now has a name! 21 Dec 2015

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I had great feedback on Twitter etc on a name for this work and thank you to all who contributed. In the end I went with Waiting, Wishing, Wanting, which I think sums up perfectly what this young woman is feeling. Thank you to the person who contributed this title, you know who you are! Which brings me to a quote from Edgar Degas : ‘Art is not what you see but what you make others see’. I hope this is how people see my work as a narrative figurative artist and why I moved away from straight portraiture. I am painting a story on which you, the viewer, can put your own interpretation. Art is of course subjective so I shall never please everyone! I am truly delighted to have been accepted onto the online exhibition called New Beginnings with Manhattan Art International. Please have a look at http://www.manhattanarts.com to see more. Sorry I can’t seem to copy the link across for some reason but it is definitely worth a look. I am also now showing my work with Clifton Fine Art in Bristol, so if you are in the area please do go in and have a look.…

New Website and ‘The Result’ completed. 3 December 2015

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I am very pleased and proud to tell you that my website is now live. Please do have a look and sign up for the Newsletter at the top of the Home page. I will be sending out quarterly Newsletters telling what I have been up to. Feel free to give me any feedback too. There will no doubt still be a bit more tweaking before I get it completely right, but I am indebted to my wonderful nephew for completely revamping my site, and yes, it did need it – big time. There are a couple of slight hiccups with iphones and ipads not getting the Line Art images, but we should be there in the next day or two, so please bear with me one more time. Henceforth, you will find my blog on the website as opposed to a separate link, which should be easier for everyone, including myself! So, to ‘The Result’ which is now completed. I have been adding glazes to the background wall to give more shade and bring out the light from underneath the lampshade. Glazes are great for adding depth gradually to a painting and I have done similar on the…