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.

Blue swirl

Posted on November 2, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumnal, Circular, incollage, Instagram, Leaves, Life, Memories, Photo, Photodirector, Time, WordPressLeave a comment

A photo from 3 years ago morphed a bit more by using incollage and Instagram. I chose the circular template in WordPress to finish it off. It could be a blue glazed ceramic plate. Autumnal in feel but also frosty. I also used the AI style effect in photodirector to get the textured patterning.

Butterfly

Posted on August 5, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Butterfly, Circular, Digital doodle, Drawing, Fun, Sketch app, Sketching, sparkle toolLeave a comment

Butterfly drawing. Done in an app called sketch. There is a symmetry section in the tools and rge main pen I used seems to make sparks like a firework sparkler. I could see something like this on a circular canvas, maybe as a statement piece in an apartment.

Sculpture

Posted on August 13, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Circular, diminishing in height, hard edges, Keele University, Metallic, Sculpture, spires?Leave a comment

Lit by led lights, this sculpture at Keele University is striking. Spires of reflective steel radiate outwards. Each line of them diminishes in size as them move outwards. It seems energetic, yet constrained. Like a frozen fountain. At the centre is a low metal plinth or seat. I wanted to walk into the centre of it and sit or stand on it. But thought it might be too fragile. A peaceful place to contemplate the universe perhaps?

Wheels

Posted on September 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bike, Blogging, Circular, Life, Photos, Round, Short, sizes, Wheel sizes, WheelsLeave a comment

White walls or black walls, old fashioned bike wheels are getting hard to find. Everything has gone over to metric and the 27 inch and 26 inch tyres of yesteryear are hard to find now. That’s a problem for people like me with little legs. I had 26 inch wheels and when I had my bike rebuilt they put in 700c’s which are ever so slightly larger. That resulted in my saddle being slightly too high. I always used to lay my bike on the floor to get over the frame, but once I stand it up I can’t get on the saddle. I want to lower that, but the bolt had seized… Might try finding a shopper bike!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Circular