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‘Newark Townscapes’ exhibition at Spotlight Gallery
My solo exhibition, ‘Newark Townscapes’ is now on at the Spotlight Gallery in Newark Town Hall – until 13 Nov. For this exhibition, I set about creating a series of contemporary views of Newark inspired by the structures and textures of the … Continue reading
Thoresby Exhibition – sneak preview
Here is one corner of the Thoresby gallery exhibition yesterday afternoon, with paintings and one of the sculptures in position and awaiting labels … … and these are some of my ceramic slumbering heads waiting to be positioned.
Thoresby Exhibition of Landscape Paintings and Ceramic Sculpture
Yesterday I delivered paintings to the Thoresby Gallery for my solo exhibition, ‘Light & Line in the Landscape‘, which starts on Tuesday. Cynthia has been hanging the paintings today, alongside a small selection of my ceramic sculptural works. There are … Continue reading
New work of Botallack, Cornwall
This is one of a group of paintings I’ve been working on of ‘The Crowns’ engine houses at Botallack in Cornwall. I love this highly vertiginous viewpoint of the remains. Its a view that has led me to experiment with … Continue reading
My Rufford Abbey Paintings at the Rufford Spring Exhibition
I have a series of paintings at Rufford Park in the Creative Greenhouse spring exhibition, which opened last weekend. Up until now, when painting Rufford, I have chosen to use square compositions, so when I began these paintings it was exciting to refresh the … Continue reading
Newark Paintings at Thoresby and Harley
I haven’t written for a while as I’ve been so busy painting, putting on an open studio and sending work to galleries. As Christmas approaches, I wanted to put down something about the pieces I’ve been working on during the … Continue reading
Newark Pop Up No More
The Newark Pop Up Gallery has now vanished. We did our last day yesterday (Saturday) and everyone removed their stuff today – you wouldn’t know we had been there! It was a really good experience and I thoroughly enjoyed teaming … Continue reading
Newark Pop Up Private View
Had our private view of the gallery last night. It went really well. No-one thought to make a note of numbers, but my daughter took a few photos and you can see it was busy.
Newark Pop Up Gallery
Just finished hanging work for the Pop Up Gallery in Newark ready for the opening tomorrow. There really is an exciting mix of works. Bill Ming has some terrific new abstract collages, alongside the exuberant figure paintings of Nikki McKay. … Continue reading
Thoresby Open Exhibition
Really pleased that Thoresby has selected three of my paintings for the Open Exhibition. This year the theme is ‘conflict’ and I chose to enter two paintings of Newark Castle together with a view of Nottingham’s market square that contrasts … Continue reading