Leon Ridyard

London Artist, see fine art on [email protected] and humourous illustrations at [email protected]

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Part two- the Gate #contemporarybritishpainting

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@RichardJSargent once I was teaching from a paper flip chart and actually tried to scroll up!

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@russmather Ha - I thought of Hai Karate but didn’t want to go for the obvious!

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@russmather Brut? Paco Reban?

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@RichardJSargent I’ve even resorted to watching a few Terrahawks episodes on Amazon!

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The virus has affected both my artistic and social life, I’m adapting by making online art videos for children

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@chrisriddell50 Hi Chris, your watercolou doodles inspired me for one of my online art lessons for years5/6, I’m now thinking of doing a similar video for YouTube at the start of next month

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@VinylMePlease I broke my toy Dalek in about 1977 and found a tiny plastic record inside with tiny needle which played the sounds ‘Exterminate’ etc

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@jetfury @BatkovicM Did you guys use a similar sound to his machine on ‘Alle Sauvage’?

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@TaylorMcFerrin @drummerslams Hi, is this single available on viny? Such a lovely vibe. Can’t seem to find a link to buy

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@discogs living between Two towns I had two: in Sheffield it was FON records, fab little shop. In Chesterfield there was Hudson’s

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@russmather We are doing our own version of Task master at crimbo, setting our own tasks using envelopes and bringing our own prizes.

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@russmather Thanks for putting me on to this. Really great eclectic album

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@russmather Lucky to have a Brewdog pub 30 mins away on train that does the beers you don’t get in the cans. I’ll look out for the monk and wanderer

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@russmather Gotta say Brewdog do some amazing dark beers that are also v.strong. Had one called coffee and cigarettes that was awesome

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@KaiserPutzi @RAMANAN_Sampath @spikydaizy @joelcomm The last calculator says 1224 which added makes 9. The first 3 calculators say 1234 which when added make 10

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@russmather FON records, Sheffield. The dinky shop before it became WARP!!

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Don’t make any plans! #illustration #donaldflake #humour #handdrawn #isolationlife #lockdownuk #quarantinelife #handmade #selfisolation #uklockdown #stuckindoors #londonlockdown

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@russmather Ha I’ve a few old friends like that, shame really but some days I completely understand why they wouldn’t want to!