Participation in exhibitions is often interesting for reasons which have nothing to do with selling one’s work. Very often the most useful part of the occasion can be the opportunities for conversations with colleagues. My involvement with the Thornton Art Trail over the week-end is a case in point. One of the other exhibitors in … Read more
This week-end I am taking part again in the Thornton Art Trail. I have had the good fortune to be allocated to a very welcoming private house, in which it has been possible to display my work to advantage. On the first day of the event there has been a good flow of visitors. My … Read more
After the long period of disruption during which I was not able to produce anything worthwhile, I do seem to be getting back to something resembling “normality”. It seems that there is one big hurdle to surmount, however, before I can really say that I have reached that state. The large, missing piece at the … Read more
Even after twenty-five years at this game I find that I am still learning new things. I mentioned in a recent post that I have been asked to undertake a commission, for the first time ever. Naturally I was keen, and threw myself into the task, which is now finished, to the satisfaction of the … Read more
It is really good to be working again after such a long layoff. Starting work, however, is far from easy, as I’ve found on previous occasions. The idea has been identified. The medium in which I want to work has been chosen. The canvas has been under-painted and the idea sketched. Even so, I am … Read more
For several months now (as regular readers will know) I have been feeling the lack of any progress in all sorts of aspects of life. There are several obvious reasons for this, such as the legacy of my injury and the disruption consequent upon our decision to move house. There have been some signs on … Read more
For some time now life has been in a state of mild disorder. The primary cause of this has been the fact that we have now committed ourselves to selling our home and finding somewhere else to live. Perhaps the largest impact of this has not been so much on the practicalities of life, but … Read more
We are planning to move house in the near future and naturally this implies a good deal of attention to sorting and disposing of old things we no longer need. I have been aware that I still have a stack of academic papers which I have kept since my retirement in 2001, and decided yesterday … Read more
This afternoon I finished the picture I mentioned recently, of magnolias from our garden. It is not the best work I have done, but it is certainly a workmanlike piece which will serve its purpose. As I had nothing else immediately in mind to do I decided that it might be an opportune moment to … Read more
We have decided, after twenty-seven years in our current home, that it would be appropriate to find somewhere more convenient as we grow older. The process of putting our house on the market, and looking at potential new homes, is turning out to be interesting …. and challenging. Already I have learned something interesting about … Read more