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.

Craft fair news

Posted on November 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Baubles, Christmas, Craft fair, Design, Frost, More to do, Paintings, Ribbon2 Comments

Finished tree decorations…. I think they are OK. I’ve tried to make them festive. I’ve attached ribbons so they can hang off a tree. Well I will be trying to sell them at the craft fair I’m doing in the morning…. More to do.. I’m trying to do a painting of Frost. I’ve used lots of metallic paint, I think it’s in need of more detail though. _20191108_220603

Christmas tree paintings

Posted on November 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Christmas, Craft fair, Creative, Design, Fun, Paintings, Tiny paintings4 Comments

I’m channelling Christmas and painting little canvases as tree decorations. They need more layers and the colours sorting out….. They will have green ribbons on them so they can hang off a Christmas tree. Backs to be painted black to blend into the shadows…

New ideas for paintings

Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blocking in, Busy, Cats, Design, Fun, Landscape, Life, Painting, Paintings, Pottery2 Comments

They might not look like much yet, but I’ve just blocked in three small painting that I sketched out over the weekend. The middle one is of a cat curled up on an armchair. The chair will be covered in a holly pattern.the cat on the window ledge will have a blue and white vase next to it, and the pottery is an imagined view in the snow,

I’ve got a busy week so I might not be able to get online much. Also I’ve got toothache!

Finished paintings

Posted on October 13, 2019October 13, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Art for sale, Falcon works, Goss Hawk, Home is Where the Art is exhibition, Landscape, Longport, Paintings, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Waiting room gallery, Winter kilnsLeave a comment

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Finished paintings delivered to the Waiting room gallery today. They are going to be part of the “Home is Where the Art is” exhibition starting soon. Now I need to work on paintings for the Brampton Christmas sale exhibition. I’ve only got a week to get some appropriate work done. I might also find out about getting some cards made from my images.

Final day of solo show

Posted on September 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animal, Art, Design, Eclectic, Green man, Landscape, Longport, Paintings, Solo show, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Waiting room galleryLeave a comment

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My final solo show day at the waiting room gallery is tomorrow, 22nd September 2019. Its open from 12noon to I think 5pm.

Im hoping people that couldn’t get to the opening will come along tomorrow.

It’s near Longport Station (which is being restored) and is a great new artist led gallery. I’m hoping to sort out some prints with them so they will have artwork for sale with them after the show has ended.

So that’s The Waiting Room Gallery, Longport, ST6 4ND. Maybe see you there. x

Long weekend

Posted on September 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Ceramics, Classic cars, Etruria, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Exhibition, Jewellery, Long weekend, Paintings, Staffordshire, Static steam engines, Steam engines, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

What a long weekend! Two days manning the pop up exhibition at Etruria. I didn’t have much time to look at the static steam engines on display yesterday or the classic cars today. The place wasn’t buzzing but there was a constant stream of people coming in. Most of them were interested in what we were doing, what the building used to be used for, or decided to let their children make things with clay. A few people walked in took one look and walked out again. Sometimes they even asked where the tea room was.

Etruria Artists had paintings, photos, ceramics, jewellery and even painted stones on display. It was good to share the space with other artists there. I even bought a pottery frog, a mug and a whale.

So many people to talk to, to help, to explain to. I also helped a bit children with modelling clay. My friends usually do this and I just helped when they were not around. We made frogs and ladybirds, and an owl. Sadly I didn’t take any photos of the pieces as I forgot my phone.

Orme Art exhibition..

Posted on September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Astronomy, Design, Flowers, Free, Gallery, Jupiter tryptich, Landscape, Mars, Museum, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Art group, Paintings, Plants, Staffordshire, The BramptonLeave a comment

I got my paintings up at the Brampton museum and art gallery now until the 10th November. I’m part of a group exhibition with fellow artists from the Orme Art group based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

I’m quite happy that they have hung my Mars painting upside down! After all in space there is no right way up! The art is along a corridor in the museum but they are well displayed and lit. If you are around you can always take a look. It’s at the Brampton museum and art gallery in Newcastle-under-Lyme .

A few more gallery photos

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Exhibition, Gallery, Life, Paintings, Photos, Spode site8 Comments

Here are a few more photos of the exhibition courtesy of Sarah. They are all wide shots. I’m going to get some digital photos done of each one.

Only two more days and it will be down.

Mirror plates

Posted on May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Exhibition, Mirror plates, Paintings, Phillips posi drive screws, Preparations4 Comments

Ouch… I’ve just finished putting mirror plates on the back of my paintings. You have to make holes in the back of canvas’s wooden supports and then screw them in place with two screws so they can be attached to gallery walls.

The problem is that the screws I have are small and have Phillips cross headed heads on them. The screws are made of harder metal than the screw driver and consequently the head of the screw driver had worn away. You can’t see this clearly on the photos though.

The the screw driver does not sit properly in the head of the screw, this means that they are really difficult to drive into the back of the canvas. I had to do this on 14 canvases, so 28 mirror plates and 56 screws. The wooden frames on canvases are not uniform, some are made with harder wood than others. In a couple of cases I had to use shorter screws because they would not screw all the way into the wood.

Now I have to list all the paintings so that I can take them down to the gallery on the morning.

Mallaband-Brown

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