My Art
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Art Style-A Yearning for Form
After years of chasing after atmospheric art, after being wowed by Turner, the smeared, palette knife works of Erin ward, Louise Balaam, etc. Like Plein air painting years ago, I’ve noticed it all tended to…
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My appreciation for street art
I have never looked much at street art, but some of what I see some I like. I enjoy it because it’s not the art of the establishment, the galleries, ateliers, museums and critics. There…
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Figure drawing first time
Last weekend I attended my first ever figure drawing class. Apart from landscape, figure drawing is one of the artistic skills I want to pursue and one I’m most impressed with. But it takes a lot…
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St Ives and my first foray into plein air
The paintings and sketches are just some from a recent St Ives painting short course I attended at the St Ives school of painting. I was down there for five days and the course only…
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The Courtauld Gallery Visit
With my new interest in art and becoming an artist I have looked at a lot of art online. However looking at art on screen doesn’t reveal any details our insights into how that artist…
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I don’t think I have what it takes
Another weekend where I never got enough done. I sat at home, avoiding yoga, saying to myself I will do some more writing. But it didn’t happen as I would have liked. I did some…