I’m sending my best wishes to you all as we enter into lockdown here in the UK. I hope you and your family are safe and well. We self-isolated just before the schools closed, due to our eldest coming down with a temperature, but now that we’ve been through the […]
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In the Summer/Autumn of last year I sent a number of my Grand Canal, Venice greeting cards up to the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley. The gallery shop stocked them alongside their Venice exhibition. Since then i’ve sent a number of other designs up for them to try out in the […]
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Who doesn’t like a lighthouse? This example from St Augustine in Florida is particularly striking with a black and white twist up the central column. Topped with a distinctive red the ‘St Augustine Light Tower’ stands at the north end of Anastasia Island and was built between 1871 and 1874.I started looking […]
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You might have already seen examples of the paper diorama pieces that i’ve been working on over the last year, but these two new additions are something a little different. Here’s ‘The Phoenix Cinema’ created with acrylic and ink on paper, before being cut out and raised slightly from a […]
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I’ve always enjoyed a good puzzle! especially one that has been created from handmade artwork like an illustration or painting. It’s a lovely thing delving into the details of the picture. Each piece focusing in on the line work or the brush strokes and I find myself taken in by […]
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Following up on my little Port Isaac painting in December is this bigger feature canvas of the Cornish fishing village. The port is up on the Atlantic Coast near to Wadebridge and is perhaps best known as a location in TV and film. There was so much wonderful detailing in […]
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