Musee des Beaux Arts in Pau, http://www.pau.fr/le_reve/culture/20051008_142051 seems to be a place that needs visiting soon especially as it has, according to Sotheby’s, the original marble of this beautiful work by Alfred Boucher French (1850-1934). I have mentioned him before and added this to my Top 1000 Sculptures of all time. (and also found here […]
Patina Day
Getting there! see here too http://saved-from-the-bin.blogspot.com/
Garden Open Days Dorset and Art and Sculpture Trail
Have a look at that little poster, the colourful one and you will know what this is about!Martin Debenham, under the Mulberry tree (we are in Debenham country)!A Robert Mileham, installed here for just one day!Other side!Bored resident of the River Piddle”Family feeding; note the different head colour of the teenage spotted woodpecker on the […]
Top new novel of the year, the best in a good bunch, Ali Shaw’s The Girl with glass feet.
I have just read a great new book as a reward for six months of particularly hard graft at my sculpture. If one is to review a good novel, I suggest the following; 1. You can’t put the book down. 2. It changed you for the better. 3. It hit an emotional nerve or two […]
Sculpture Exhibition London Inspired by the Garden
Setting up my June exhibition, we have a well deserved lunch break. Inspired By The Garden 28 Cork Street, London. W1S 3NG Monday 1st June 2009 to Saturday 6th June 2009 Weekdays 10.00am – 6.00pm Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm A percentage of proceeds will go to Young Art Scotland for Cancer Research UK and Roy […]
More of the Fine Arts Bronze Sculpture Foundry
Very busy with this and my Parian Ware and Terra Cotta works for exhibition in London in the first week in June. All will be revealed soon!
Weather Cocks
Of course most weather vanes / cocks are the classic cocks, but here in Dorset we have struck out for a few different ones. We have a lot of weather in England so we tend to talk about it, it is a “safe” subject difficult to offend anyone if you stick firmly to the subject […]
Absence
A sorry to all my e friends for my prolonged absence due to pressure of work; then again, when the view is like this by your home who would be in front of a computer!!
Snook, building a good day at the Races
My first memory of a Point-to- Point was my 5th Birthday, it poured with rain I couldn’t see the horses, I was too small, and we got stuck in the mud with hundreds of other cars trying to go home afterwards. Easter Saturday is celebrated by some of us in the countryside by a day […]