A very Happy Christmas and New Year to all my e friends. This little oil sketch features my father and his two older siblings. Where this picture is and who owns I do not know. There are wood cut versions too but this one does not look as if it has been finished; painted by […]
Armed Forces Arts Society
I am launching a blog for the Armed Forces Arts Society.
Famous Paintings In Unusual Places
So? No prizes for guessing where I have been! My host knew exactly what I was talking about and so we visited her enfamillie the next day. Here is the Pub’s spin on her http://www.youngandjacksons.com.au/downloads/chloe_history.pdf I think I read the true account of her very sad story which seems to have been erased from the […]
Paul Otto
Paul has been staying with us and showing me how easy it is to sculpt in marble! I only had a small piece which he has quickly turned into a seal, amazing. Paul lives and works in Berlin in Germany, sculpting in a whole variety of stone and other materials. I look forward to posting […]
Just a beautiful Day
mmmmmmmmmm Just a fab day off Brixham in Devon. I was well reefed down as you can see in picture number two, but the sea was flat and gave us a comfortable ride all day. Noone spilt anything! Wish you were here?
St Oswald’s Bay Split in Half
A larger than normal land slip is reported to have split my favourite beach in half. These things happen quite often but this is bigger than usual reminding us to tread carefully but the sea will mop it up in a jiffy! See here before: And now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-22355538
Berlin
No prizes for guessing where I got to the other day. Zeus at the Pergamon five Museums in three days! Just wonderful “Biscuit or Parian ware” Recognise the pose, yep that awful one! hands, hands, hands and feet too touching pose I really found this moving, believable, perhaps as I have been to sea recently! […]
He has been visiting us and he left the taps on! I hope the water companies will save some of it. I will let you know when they declare a drought again!
Beautiful Dorset
“Summer goes so quickly was it something that you said….. in the windmills of your mind”…… These is hardly representative of the summer of 2012 but to prove it was not all bad here are a few shots of the Dorset Coast from the sea. This was within a few miles East of the Olympic […]
Hands again
Thought I would share a few “hands” again. With thanks to Sothebys.
