For the first time in ages the weather has been kind to us and a five mile walk was possible along the beach.
Walking on the beach
March 7th, 2010Old Style
February 23rd, 2010The picture below is of a painting from 2007, it still hangs in the dining room in Woolacombe.
I have spent the last week building a website and have had no time to get anymore paintings started for the exhibition in June. I have however reconsidered my position and might strike off into a totaly different direction.
I have also been playing around with the iPhone Wordpress App. It has made my life so much easier enabling me to upload images and posts without the need to boot up my computer. Splendid!
Another painting
February 21st, 2010Here is a couple of ideas for paintings for the exhibition at Broomhill Art Hotel in June 2010.
Another birthday
February 20th, 2010Well here I am another year older and non the wiser.
Couple of painting ideas
February 17th, 2010Creativity is something we are all born with to greater or lesser degrees. It is a vital part of our physiological make up and development. We learn to play and fantasize as children, skills we carry forward into our adulthood. However, if creativity takes hold of your entire existence then it becomes a disease that is parasitic, eating away at your whole world. It might sound melodramatic but creativity can become a cancer of the body or the trigger for psychotic episodes.
Here are a couple of painting ideas I have come up with for the exhibition in June. I will most probably ditch this theme and do something completely different – but it was great fun doing!
Exhibition date – Interview
February 11th, 2010
I’m not really one for massive self promotion but a couple of (exciting) things have happened to me this week.
- Great news, the release of the fanzine ‘Grave Jibes‘ will be on Feb, 15th with an interview with Jake and Peter (This Window) see the details here http://www.gravejibes.com/category/news/). This Window will also be on radio “GaGa” also in Russia.www.radio88gaga.ru/
- Exhibition: June 2010 of new paintings and old drawings at Broomhill Art Hotel, Nr. Barnstaple, North Devon.I have rediscovered some drawings I did in January 1978 and I have decided to revisit these compositional ideas. Have my skills ‘matured’? Will I manage to recapture the youthful energy or will I run out of steam? This could be an interesting exercise or a total failure for me as an artist now.
Creating images is balancing on the knife edge that teeters between success and failure. A brushstroke out of place is like cutting the beak off a privet peacock, it takes time for it to grow back and reshape.
iTouch and opening a gallery?
January 16th, 2010Conecting to the web via a mobile device is an interesting concept – I think my next plan is to open a gallery.
And Also The Trees – Retrospective view
January 10th, 2010It is always difficult to be objective about a band you have been aware of for decades, a band you have socialized with, drunk with and supported on stage...
And Also The Trees always manage to deliver a well thought out product (with out sounding pretentious and ‘Arty’) the concept, the execution, the complete package is always ‘very interesting’. The almost melancholic delivery of the words, the guitars that pull you into a loop and flick you off on to a different tangent – which crisscrosses the rest of the emotional mix, creates a fantastic dark labyrinth to get lost in. Apart from that they produce cracking good intelligent songs. There is a new collection available which was released in 2009 called When The Rains Come
From a village in Worcestershire, brothers Simon (vocals) and Justin Jones (guitar) formed And Also The Trees in 1979 and have been recording and playing live virtually ever since. My copy of (Listen for) the Rag and Bone Man
is almost worn out….go and have a listen on MySpace.
is almost worn out….go and have a listen on MySpace.Visit their site
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