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 | Washing and dressing
This is post exhibition wallowing in the past!
Before I gather my strength up to move on I look around
This is a multiple take on morning ablutions. Not, I trust in a voyeuristic ... |
18-05-2012
Word count: 187
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 | Working
The detail above is from a study for 'picking peas', an idea that occupied me for some time during the mid 90s. The idea continued into 2011 when a series then contained a 'working' module and t... |
16-05-2012
Word count: 189
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Woman with a cigarette
What an extraordinary photo! When I saw it some years ago it was taken at once to the studio for my resource folder. The translation into painting is something else - time passe... |
14-05-2012
Word count: 150
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 | Nocturnal Dance
A good client of mine bought this gouche study last week. I tend to disregard old pieces like this untill someone stumps up real money for it and then I look again.
I am at the moment l... |
11-05-2012
Word count: 181
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I well remember my amazement when, years ago, I first lifted the old red velvet covers that protected the drawings and paintings of Samuel Palmer in the filtered light of the old Ashmolem Museu... |
09-05-2012
Word count: 200
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Last week I had an e-mail from a Lynda Murray, who signed herself 'the Editor' of Who's Who in art. in which she offered me a free listing in her forthcoming 35th edition.
Of course my first thought w... |
30-04-2012
Word count: 130
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 | While indulging in a little pleasure, namely examining the art section in Oxted's excellent little secondhand bookshop I came across two things.
1. A limited edition of Samuel Palmer's sketchbook. This ... |
11-04-2012
Word count: 254
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 | I smile at the past
nonsense from 1995
joyous frippery in colour
veiled satire
apparent senses surface
recognizing
life
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14-03-2012
Word count: 58
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 | I am sometimes amazed by the past.
This charcoal of Isadora Duncan came with its owner to visit me on Saturday. There was mild concern about the surface of the charcoal as it seems to be peeling. It is ... |
14-01-2012
Word count: 187
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Lucien Freud on paper
We are just back from France with early Christmas presents! This new book of Freud's drawings came my way as a present, wow, all those early drawings in one book with etchi... |
21-12-2011
Word count: 187
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