Yesterday sketch life drawing with the model

June 06, 2014

Yes, this is not Venus. This body doesn't compete with today mass media image of a woman's body. The body/shell doesn't reflect who we are, how we feel, but yet we are ready to form an opinion of who we think she could be. What do I see? There is peace, there is humility, there is compassion. Acceptance of what we have become.

Photos from the Opening reception at Bliss Cafe' Worcester

May 27, 2014

Hanging the Exhibition at the Worcester Arts Workshop

May 18, 2014

Sue Firmin and I hanging our paintings.The exhibition is from 20th May to the 20th June 2014

Worcester May 23rd 2014 Exhibition Opening

May 10, 2014

Exhibiting a small body of figurative work in different styles.

A new painting

April 27, 2014

In a society where the outside look is "important", beautiful bodies, are just shells, the inner scars, the hurt souls cannot hide behind a shell, the signs exist, we show them inevitably, we live with it: our acceptance of our human imperfection.

How the abstract talked to me..... →

April 11, 2014 in abstract figurative, experimentation, Painting in the making

This film shows how an abstract mono print made earlier with a gelatine plate, "spoke" to me and it developed into the piece you see below....

Work in progress

March 25, 2014 in abstract figurative, experimentation, Painting in the making, open studio

The journey to abstracting the figure is on and here are my latest w.i.p.

Towards abstraction of the figure

March 19, 2014 in Painting in the making, abstract figurative

I have embarked on a long journey: abstracting the figure. I love the human forms and the poses give me ground to dig into my soul. I am painting with scratches and scribbles which represent the scars we all carry on our bodies as well as the emotional scars in our hearts. The figures are surreal: they are my feelings, my thoughts. The painting below is part of this journey.

working between an oil and a mix media

February 25, 2014 in Painting in the making, experimentation, open studio

Work in progress.... left oil portrait of my beautiful friend Paige and below one of my figurative inspirations in mix media.

Using IPad for life drawing sketch

February 21, 2014 in experimentation

Every week I take life drawing at the Malvern School of Art, sometimes I use my iPad for sketching, it is still a learning curve for me, as I have not had any training. I am having a great time experimenting and discovering all the tools this software has to offer. Below is an image from my iPad sketch book .

Before and after...

February 11, 2014 in Painting in the making

A quote from a Master

February 10, 2014

When is a painting a piece of artwork finished?

work in progress

February 05, 2014 in open studio

Few pieces in the making which might go to my next exhibition....

From my studio

February 03, 2014 in open studio

These are some of my tools, just a glimpse of a table that gets smaller every day... What is brewing in the studio? A variety of experiments on drawing with various techniques, creating mono-type prints on gelatine plate. There is a lot going on as I do not want to get bored working on a specific piece, so I work from one piece to another; that refreshes how I see the pieces when I go back to work on them. I shall soon post some of the "working in progress" Hope you join me on my blog: my journey in making art.