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| December 2011 |
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My thoughts on 2011............coming... One being - I hope they don't make another 'Strictly' series. I hate that fucking TV programme. No such luck. Too many people like it! Why? |
| 7th May 2011 |
 Did this painting as a wedding present for Clive & Suzy - it is 5'6" x 7'6" and was displayed above the altar at their wedding! |
| 2nd January 2011 |
 Scarlett |
| 9th December 2010 |
 Ramsgate in the snow - 
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| December 2010 |
| If you're in the Guildford area pop in to Bar des Arts. I am exhibiting there until February 2011. Catch it if you can - it'll hit you like a smackeroo bleurdy. |
| October 2010 |
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Wednesday 27th, while slowly getting drunk with John Houston at Outside the Square, Marta and Sebastian came in selling tickets for a UCA production at the Theatre Royal, Margate on Friday 29th. I'm glad I went. A really good show with everything from painting, dance, a brilliant violinist playing Astor Piazzolla and some excellent piano - playing and dismantling!! Plus a very clever audience participation light show involving auditorium shots projected instantaneously onto a screen. The performance was filmed by Marta. |
| July 2010 |
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I met a nice chap in Folkestone - an artist called Shane Record (can't be his real name surely). He does lovely palette knife oil paintings. See his link on the right side of this page. I have put some drawings up in Arch No. 20, Military Rd, Ramsgate - just along from the Sailor's Church. This is the studio of Andrew Greatrix, who does beautiful seascapes. It is open to the public most days. |
| June 2010 |
| I've got 9 drawings in Outside The Square, 3 Duke Street, Old Town Margate, CT9 1EP, a new gallery opened by John Houston. |
| May 2010 |
| Sold 2 drawings at the Ash Art Exhibition and one at Manston. |
| February 2010 |
| All Paintings, is an art portal with more than 49,000 images from the paintings & artworks of the best masters of art history. It's a place you can lose yourselve in for hours. |
| December 2009 |
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Did a banana tree mural but painted over it - click to see -  - did a version of Michelangelo Tempatation of Adam and Eve over it instead! - click to see this -  |
| October 2009. One Christmas dinner booked already! |
| September 2009 |
| Life Drawing began again this month in Margate and Deal. Feel very rusty! |
| 30th-31st August 2009 |
| Visited friends Peter & Claire in Lewes for their Artwave participation. Both have done some lovely work. Saw Stef and Gitta too which was great. Saw a few other exhibits, the best of which by far was Carolyn Trant. Beautiful, beautiful printmaking. Hand printed illustrations to books of poems by her friend Judith Kazantzis. She was kind enough to show us some of her other work and work in progress when we went to collect a copy of her book 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. We just had to have it. |
| 1st August 2009 |
| Finished the website for Deal Life Drawing Group. Seems to have been met with a favourable response. |
| So what is Art all about? |
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Well on June 8th 2009 The Times published the result of a poll, their readers and visitors to the Saatchi Gallery website, of the most significant 200 painters, sculptors, photographers, video and installation artists working since 1900. Blimey - nothing much to discuss there then. Follow this link to see the 'Top 200' artists. One of the best things about it are the links provided to relevant websites about the artists which is why I've reproduced the 200 list above. They could have done better. There are some wikipedia links which are OK because they usually have further links but using youtube as a link to artists' work is pathetic. I have removed some as I've looked up certain artists but if you find a good link then email it to me and I'll put it on. The Times writer clearly shows what he/she thinks of the readers' choices: "Several artists would seem to be enormously overrated. What is Martin Kippenburger doing in the Top 20, rated above Rothko and Schiele and Klee? It feels like a blip — which is probably appropriate for a radical who likes to barge in irreverently. Frida Kahlo does not merit her top spot of 19. How can this solipsistic painting by-numbers-style recorder of her own misery be placed above Munch, with his otherworldly scream? She probably represents the woman’s vote. But then, why not put Louise Bourgeois far higher — that septuagenarian who, rummaging about in the rag-and-bone shop of the heart, has had so pervasive an influence on future generations?" (Let's impale the writer on a metal stake and see how miserable he/she is!) Notable omissions from various sources in no particular order (Google them yourself): Jack Vettriano Norman Rockwell Paul Nash David Reed Sarah Morris Raoul Dufy Jacob Epstein Edgar Degas Walter Anderson Andrew Wyeth Thomas Eakins Daniel Chester French Maxfield Parrish Tamara de Lempicka Yves Tanguy Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz Anyone you can think of that should be there? email me. Remember 'working from 1900'- Van Gogh, for example, didn't quite make it to 1900. |
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| November/December 2011 |
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