Now clearly I like paintings of food or any botanical subject and I often look around the internet for inspiration. I came across these hyper realistic paintings by Ben Schonzeit which just blew my mind. The detail in them is incredible. I also like to play with repetition of a subject which he also does. …
I love the etheral quality of Kristin’s illustrations. The soft, muted colors she uses make her illustrations look almost as though you’re looking at them through a fine mist. This is an exerpt taken from our Biography: “Of Norwegian origin, Kristin Vestgård studied for her degree at Falmouth College of Art. She sold all her…
I was very inspired by this artist, Mister Finch. I love his take on natural subjects.
Front window So following on from the opening, the first week went well with the sale of my ‘zesty triptych’. We arranged to arrive early for the vernissage on 9th February so that I had some time to change some of the paintings with those that had come back from Belgium. I wasn’t too keen…
I’m delighted to finally have my paintings hanging at the gallery in Moulins, here in France. Preparations for it seem to have gone on forever. The exhibition was in fact first organized for May but just 5 weeks ago I received a phone call from the gallery owner asking me to bring it forward to…
I watched a wonderful program on Matisse last night. It made me realise that my new series ‘stripped naked’ was indeed a good idea. Matisse started out doing relatively constrained and traditional works, paintings that fitted in to what was expected of him at that time. It wasn’t until he had bowel cancer that he…
We were going a little stir crazy yesterday as we’ve spent much time working. Joe thought that we should get out and just down to the lake we have near to us. It was around -10C so we put our thermals on, 3 pairs of socks, wellington boots, scarf, hat and gloves. This would normally…
The snow really is coming down hard now here in the Auvergne. We’ve run out of wood and it’s impossible to get the wheelbarrow up the hill with all this snow. Looks like we’ll have to carry a few logs at a time. We should have been more prepared I guess. We just hope the…
In the past, I’ve always thrown away paintbrushes that had gone hard. Even solvents didn’t seem to work that well and I didn’t like the cost to the environment using these. I’ve just recently found this article which says that using ivory soap gets your brushes back to their former glory. It’s very simple –…
Finally we are now seeing the first frosts here in the Auvergne, France. We are surrounded by many extinct volcanoes which are now topped with snow, like little Christmas puddings topped with delicious icing. This is what’s inspired my little Treasure chest of goodies. Hope you don’t feel too cold! Enjoy! You can visit these…