Here’s some new work and my schedule so far for this year- if you would like a visit to my gallery studio- just DM me! 😊 #openstudio
Koda Coffee solo exhibition July and August
Scarboro Art Fair in town centre 4th July
Scarb Fair Open Studio 10th to 13th July
Yesterday I absorbed a talk about Edith Sitwell. She was born down the road from where I live now. She was first born and rejected by her parents. No matter what class you are from, that must have been devastating for her…,
However statically I would surmise that happened rarely with the working classes. Her life is intriguing and managed to be a muse to painters. An interesting face is far better to paint than a bland face. This is a miniature portrait in gouache I did today of her.
#edithsitwell
'Portrait of a Lady.' (c1940) Lawrence Gowing was a pupil of William Coldstream and protégé of the Bloomsbury art critic Clive Bell; he wrote books and exhibition catalogues on Vermeer, Hogarth, Cezanne, Turner, Matisse and Lucien Freud.
New cards all ready for the theatre shop and the art fair 4th July in Scarborough town centre and my open studio 10th to 13th July, and Coble Market 9th August….. I’m going for the whole shebang this year!!! @thescarbfair
This one’s been snaffled up before my little exhibition at Koda, but I will have several other orange/green themed oil paintings going up in Koda from 1st July to 31st August as well as some monoprints done in response to the first lockdown. #kodacoffee#scarborough
David Hockney’s mum visited him in Southern California after he’d moved there in the 1960s, and as they drove back from the airport she looked up into clear blue sky and said,
“I don't understand it. Such lovely drying weather and no one's got their washing out."
Bless.
@northyorksc@NYorksPolice we have endured this excessive music from 3 Valley Road since 9pm- it is now 3:25am and no respite or sleep. I will be taking this further.