It is now December and we still have herbs growing in the garden. The temperature here last night was 15 c. I listened to some Gilbert and Sullivan last night after a long absence. I had forgotten just how much lighter one feels with it especially having just got through “The Witches’ Sabaoth”, but then […]
Pip
This is a finished maquette of one of the poses for a new commission for a garden in Buckinghamshire. Another of my poses was chosen but this one was very popular.
Brad Bourgoyne’s digital drawings
I learnt something new today; digital drawing. Trying to draw with a mouse is extremely difficult and the results usually look a bit like drawings by Lowry, you know, rather bad but not bad on purpose. For a couple of years I have been thinking of getting a graphics pen and now I think I […]
Spring Flowers start to grow November 2006
Is this more evidence that things are going haywire in climate? Daffodils, snowdrops, crocuses and hyacinths are all pushing up above ground. One daffodil is 5 inches high already. We haven’t had a frost here yet and it is the 26 November 2006.
Camera broken
Summer is long gone but I found this picture of a French visitor from last August. As our summers get hotter due to climate change, we are attracting more and more hot (and cold) weather visitors.
Dorset Stone Sculptor, Mike Chapman
I hope you like Mike’s work. This one is at the top of the steps into St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square. It is amazingly simple and was commissioned for the Millenium in 2000. “And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us” St. John 1, 1:14
German Sculpture?
I am loathed to put my head above the parapet in this very healthy discussion over the merits of German sculpture, but I’ll risk it! I remember a very “Teutonic” wooden sculpture which had been looted from a large country house in Germany at the end of WW2 but because of its Nazi connections the […]
Not so crazy aims
I think we should all have an idea where we would like to be in 10 years time I too hope it happens in 2, great stuff and Good luck Jo, I think quite a lot of us have the same aim. Have a look at http://www.crazygoals.co.uk/main.aspx?pg=featuredgoal.aspx@@@IDGoal=66779
Professor Reinhold Hohl – he can not be serious.
Just sometimes I see red. My family would say often, as “grumpy old male syndrome” has kicked in early for me. But this takes the biscuit. I won’t come to blows over it but I couldn’t agree to disagree. Umm, a bit like that one “I can not stand intolerance of any kind”! One of […]
Pre Picassan Brotherhood
I have come across an important seed which needs nurture. They have an important point which is gaining ground but not found the “Art Establishment” yet. The Pre-Picassan Brotherhood by Laura Alport …………………………………………………………We have all been taught in our art history classes that the great subjects have been exhausted, that there is “nothing new under […]
