Next Stop

Next week I have a selection of paintings going to Bloomsbury Art Fair with Artdog London, it is a foundling Art Fair but last year it was a real pleasure to visit as its not too big. Sometimes the vastness of an Art Fair can be so overwhelming because there is too much to take in.

There are some great galleries showing there and hopefully weather permitting it will be a lovely summery event. I have made a couple of little paintings on board.....'Olives Cupboard' and below' Table and Chair'Let the sun shine on us now as I think we all deserve a bit of summer!!!


Bloomsbury Art Fair      6-8 July
Goodenough College       4th July Preview
Mecklenburgh Square      Midsummer Party 5th July
London WC1N 2AB

more info www.bloombury-art-fair.com

Pop Up Shop

I am showing a small collection of paintings this weekend in an exciting new venture with Maud and Mabel in Hampstead. There will be some beautiful things there so it is well worth a visit if you are in the area.

Buttons & Cotton 60x80cm

Maud and Mabel

Oak Studio

8, Perrins Court

Hampstead

NW3 1QS

22nd 23rd 24th June

10-6pm

A Big Week

On Monday last week I attended 'Varnishing Day' at The Royal Academy, steeped in tradition it was a lovely day. A service for artists takes place a St James church after a parade down Piccadilly headed by the priest and then back to the Academy for a bite to eat and a glass of bubbles. The exciting bit is that you have no idea where your painting will be! In previous years I have been hung in The Small Weston Room and have never experienced being hung in any other part of the gallery so I was really happy to find myself hung in Gallery III which  critics have hailed to be the most successful hanging as it seems very rhythmic giving the work room to breathe as apposed to the traditional hanging normally see in previous years in the Small Weston gallery.
I visited again with friends on Friday evening and had a better chance to look at the exhibition and enjoy the feeling of having my work in that beautiful gallery.

Gallery III with my painting in it 

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

I am really proud to announce that my little painting 'She's Leaving Him' has been accepted for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition this year YIPEEEEE. It is a wonderful thing to be a part of such a prestigious event and have my painting hanging in The Royal Academy!!!.The exhibition opens to the public on June 4th-12th August so plenty of time to get to see it.

'She's leaving him'

Affordable Art Fair Bristol

Affordable Art Fair Bristol

'New Found Love'

This year although the Affordable Art Fair Bristol is an event I have taken part in for a few years now I am showing with ARTDOG for the very first time with the lovely Pippa Graber which is really exciting and makes me a little nervous because I want to do well for her!

I am showing a selection of work from a new collection I have been working hard on so fingers crossed it is well received.

I have a few works on board of which the painting 'New Found Love' is one of them. Working on board has a different quality as the working surface is very different to canvas and it has its challenges but ones that I am really enjoying.

Affordable Art Fair Bristol

Brunels Old Station

Temple Meads

Bristol

ArtDog London

Stand D12

'Angels'

This morning was bathed in blue sky and sunshine which was such a relief after the weekends deluge. I wanted to share another street find I had on a rainey morning last week again after my run and again in my street. It's a little bit strange but the picture is made up of old parcel stickers, I have even thought of dismantling it and using it in collage when decorating one of my old cases...not sure yet but It had to come home with me. It does make me wonder how it came to be.

'What happens on grey days'

'Jug from Povence'

This week has had weather ranging from the spectacular to the truly yuk sending any hopes of warm sunshine to a distant dream like state. Being held up in the studio is not a real hardship, I was just really enjoying having the door open and the heater off. I have been painting very happily and new paintings are beginning to emerge. The lovely Catharine Miller is showing a select collection of paintings at 'Decorative Fair' Battersea Park this week and I am showing with ArtDog London at Affordable Art Fair Bristol in a couple of weeks so busy getting this together.


During one of these grey days I had an idea about showing in my blog objects in the house that I have either found or been given...not birthday or christmas presents but unwanted things that various people have given to me. Each of these things has a story to tell and this is really the nature of my work, images that have a strong narrative and connection.

First one is a painting that I found recently it is an old Windsor & Newton stretcher. It was propped up against a neighbours bin and I spotted it on the way back from a run. I have been really inspired this year by the work of 'Swarmhome' they make one off pieces made from thrift finds for Anthropologie amongst others and are based in Holland. This find is in time going to be made into a bag!