Molly

Posted on August 28, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brampton museum, Burslem witch, Exhibition, Fine Art, molly leigh, Orme ArtLeave a comment

Molly, a portrait of a woman called Molly Leigh who may have been a witch, she lived in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. It’s the second painting I’m putting in the Brampton museum and art gallery in Newcastle under Lyme. It’s another acrylic on canvas. Included in the front window of the museum with the Orme Art Group Exhibition.

It will be for sale. I need to let my paintings go to new homes. I want them to go where they are appreciated and will be seen. I realise that as I get older I am holding on to a lot of things that could be better elsewhere. I don’t want an empty space but I’m running out of wall space.

Spode window

Posted on August 28, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brampton museum, Circular, Fine Art, Life, Memory, Orme Art, Painting, spode windowLeave a comment

A strange little window at Spode Works. It’s the only one I’ve seen on the site. I love the way the bricks are built in a circle. A little porthole in the side of an old factory in Stoke on Trent. I love quirky things.

This is an acrylic on canvas. Our Orme Art Group is having a small exhibition in front window of the Brampton museum and art gallery in Newcastle under Lyme in Staffordshire. This is one of two paintings I’m exhibiting. It’s on from next week I think. I might not be able to get along to it as I’m having another cataract operation in a few weeks.

A bit of joy

Posted on September 24, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, art and Minds gallery, Brampton museum, brampton open exhibition, Fine Art, Middleport, PaintingLeave a comment

Today at the Brampton open exhibition. I found my barn owl painting in a good position, not tucked away out of site. Earlier I’d been to Art and Minds in Middleport and was asked to paint an extra painting for a quiet area in the gallery. Both gave me a little bit of joy in a sad time. Perhaps I will start planning the painting tomorrow.

Exhibition ends tomorrow

Posted on November 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Art, Artists, Brampton museum, Design, Life, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Group, Paintings, Water coloursLeave a comment

It’s amazing how fast a month goes. The last day of the Orme Group’s show at the Brampton museum and art gallery in Newcastle-under-Lyme is tomorrow. Sunday 10th of November 2019. The paintings are in the corridor as you turn left at reception. So if you haven’t been and you would like to see what we get up to on a cold and wet Sunday, nows your chance.

There is a good selection of artists and ainting there. Maybe you will also find an early Christmas present. Maybe even have a walk round the grounds and have a look at the autumn leaves if there are any left on the trees.

Clouds

Posted on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Brampton museum, Cannon, Clouds, Grass, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Park, Sky, Staffordshire, Trees, WhiteLeave a comment

We were out at the Brampton this afternoon and I took some photos of the sky but including other things in the foreground. Like trees, seed pods, and even the cannon that is on the carpark. On one of them it’s almost like a couple of people kissing. Clouds are amazing.

Got painting in open exhibition

Posted on March 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brampton museum, Jupiter Blue, Life, Open exhibition, Painting4 Comments

I’m really pleased I got Jupiter Blue into a local Open exhibition at the Brampton in Newcastle-under-Lyme. I’m chuffed as it’s quite a large painting and I was half expected to only get one of the other two smaller ones I had also entered but was not successful with these. They were a pastel of Sky and Land and an abstract picture entitled Druid. I think I may work further into the second of these and make it more three dimensional.

Open exhibitions are hard to get into. They are dependant on so many different things, not least whether your work fits in with the feel of an exhibition. I have more luck some days or years than others. They also depend on the number of entries. I’ve heard of some opens taking one picture from each entrant then adding additional ones if there is enough space.

Mallaband-Brown

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