Exhibition At St Matthews - Update

SOLD

The exhibition closed today and I went to collect my works to find that this one had found a new home.
This was painted in a new approach for me, a plein air using mixed media, which made the sale all the more encouraging.

Exhibition At St Matthew's

You may remember I started the year experimenting with landscapes; using mixed media, working plein air and also working up paintings from sketches I made on location.

Each year I am invited to exhibit works at St Matthew's church at Sutton bridge and this year I have decided to be brave and enter a few of the pieces from my 'mixed views' project.

I decided to frame 'Nene Bank at Benwick' (the middle one) in portrait format, which I believe overcomes some of the problems I felt it had when I painted it. (You can read my notes here) I also like the suprise element it offers to have a landscape framed in portrait format.

All three are mounted on ivory in light wood box frames for a contemporary feel, which looks clean and allows the artwork to 'speak' without interruption.

The show runs from 29th August - 4 September. I have been invited to attend on the 29th with my sketchbook in tow, so if you are planning on taking a look you may find me huddled up in a corner scribbling ....Come over and say 'Hi'.

1. Benwick Barns
2. Nene Bank
3. Fenland View

New 'solo' Exhibition Space

A coffee shop has opened up in our village bang opposite Harry's school!
You can imagine how that pleases a caffeine addict like myself, so yesterday I popped in to introduce myself and ask about all the blank wall space. The owners, Angie and Steve, were just contemplating purchasing a couple of prints for the walls so my timing was perfect and they were thrilled to accept my offer to fill their blank spaces.
This morning I spent a couple of hours with Steve hanging a variety of works from my studio.
I printed price tags this afternoon and popped back to add them to the display when I collected Harry.
I will be refreshing the exhibit regularly but I think we all did very well on such short notice. Sadly, the photographs were taken this morning before the sun broke and before I had my second coffee of the day ...not a good mix!

St Matthew's Church Exhibition

'Portrait of a Horse' -Watercolour


'Garden Linen' - Watercolour

These 3 paintings will be on show at St Matthew's Church, 12th annual exhibition, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire PE12 9QE

Open daily from 23 - 29 August

'Soft Turns' - Acrylic

I delivered the works this afternoon and searching my archives I realise that this is the only photograph I have of 'Soft Turns' and it isn't a particularly good one....Don't you just hate when that happens?