Just finished the paintings for Byard Art in Cambridge for the Summer show.

They are big versions of the studies I sold at Arlingtons before Christmas. I have enjoyed painting all those jars and plates, and of course the lovely light.

                                   Washing the Muslin, 100cm x 100cm, oil on canvas

                                   Kitchen with Yellow, 100cm x 100cm, oil on canvas

Exhibition at Arlingtons Brasserie

Here are the drawings I am exhibiting;

 

                                  Figure with arm over the chair, charcoal on paper, £150

                                  Figure with cheek resting on hand, charcoal on paper, £150

                                   Figure with crossed legs, charcoal on paper, £175

                                          The striped top, charcoal on paper, £150

Under the skin demo at Warwick uni

http://philosophybirmingham.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/changing-understandings-of-body-image.html#more

April Wednesday Night Life Drawing

Hi everyone,

Wednesday Life Drawing is still on over Easter, remember you can drop in if you can't make the whole for weeks.... please tell your friends.

Here are the paintings that will be at Byard Art

  Here are the paintings that will be at Byard Art in Cambridge for their Figurative Exhibition

 - Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes- Opens 26 February 2015.

They will also be showing some of them at the AAF - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, March 12th- 15th. Byard Art will be on stand H14.

 

Afternoon Nap oil on canvas, 100cm x100cm

Orange Sarong oil on canvas, 90cm x90cm

                                            Breakfast Conversation oil on canvas, 100cm x100cm

                                           Blue Sarong and Sunlight oil on canvas, 100cm x100cm

 

Birthday lunch oil on canvas, 100cm x100cm

 

Arranging the Oranges oil on canvas, 100cm x100cm

                                            Dreaming of Spring oil on canvas, 100cm x100cm

  

  

Tryst  oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm

Light Stream oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm

 

  

Serenade oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm

a demonstration/performance on 24th January 2015

So do you remeber my under the skin project.....

on 24th Jan I did a two part Demo, 

Underneath the skin

an examination into the process of portrait drawing to discover the person within...

you can see it here....
Part one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtBXpDoctlM&feature=youtu.be
Part two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tms7Y-X2sk4&feature=youtu.be

As a figurative artist I am interested in how face, body and identity are discovered, represented and perceived in portraiture, and how this relates to our intimate feelings about beauty and ageing, both of ourselves and of others. 

In the first part of this performance/demonstration I used a mirror to produce a self-portrait.  I tried to discover whether I am representing the external or internal self.  Using charcoal I  altered, smeared, and developed the portrait.  As I reflected on my own image, the audience were engaged as I asked for their opinions and directions.  

In the second part I made a portrait of a sitter, Again talking to and consulting the audience, and the sitter, I sketched, changed and rubbed the work as I explored what was a true, or a sympathetic, or a flattering image.  

I am the artist.  I can judge - is she young enough, pretty enough, good enough....

Well that was the plan.... I didn't push it as far as I might have. 

The first half was OK, but in the second part I found I too was constrained by society, I just couldn't say things that could be upsetting or very confrontational... I wanted to please, be a 'nice lady'

When I  do this again next month at the Changing understandings of body image workshop at the University of Warwick 

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/beauty/events/2015/workshop1.aspx 

I am going to take on the different roles of The Artist and announce them so it is not so personal to me. I'm sure I will explore some other ideas I have mulling around.

Art at Arlingtons February 2015

 Fab! All the paintings at Arlingtons Brasserie's new upstairs gallery sold! Hooray! Not only great for food in Ipswich, but great for art too....
The new exhibition launched 1st of February 2015 and the P.V. is this Thursday, 5th of February
If you are in Ipswich, come and join us at 7pm  for a glass of wine.
to see more check out the link below.
so I'm showing the jive paintings..at a knock down price of £285 all 50cm x 50cm oil on canvas
grab em while there there folks!

                                           As long as I'm Moovin'

                                           Get with the Jive

                                          Gotta Lotta Rhythm

                                          Rock around with Ollie Vee

there will also be work by the fabulous
Valerie Armstrong, Dale Devereux Barker, Ed Cooper, Cat Fuller, Roger Hardy, and Ruth Richmond

to see more check out the link below.
http://arlingtonsbrasserie.co.uk/art-arlingtons-february-2015/