Winsor and Newton Featured Artist

I received great news today .... that I am now a Winsor and Newton featured artist.

I am absolutely thrilled by this and it made my day!

You can see it here if you are interested:

http://www.winsornewton.com/community/featured-artists/

If you use Firefox as your browser and don't see my profile, please make sure to click the UK Union flag at the top of the page. Then enter the address above once more (copy and paste it from here).

Firefox loads the US site as default and not the UK one. Only Firefox seems to be a problem.

Tagged!

I've been tagged by Jennifer Bellinger so I promise to keep it going when I have a bit more time to write up the five facts about myself.

A change is as good as a rest

I decided to try and do a loose painting in as quick a time as possible and I did this in one sitting in about 3 hours. No touching up later and all brushstrokes left in place - I had to strap my arms to my sides to stop me 'improving' it and making it more like the real thing. It was a good experience and I may continue doing more to try and improve the technique ..... hats off to all those 'one a day' painters!

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The last of the dark backgrounds

I think I'll take a rest from the dark backgrounds for a while ... I bought this lighter in Vietnam about 10 years ago.

I am going to re-do the matches photo when I have time as I am not happy with it as it is.

13 x 13 cms

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Japanese matches - HARUMI 15 x 15 cms

For sale

24 x 30 cms (SOLD)

A few new works ....

I thought I'd better get a couple more photos on here and maybe a couple more next week. Both are oil on hardboard.

30 x 24 cms (SOLD)

24 x 24 cms

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My First Post!

Firstly, I'd like to thank one of my favourite artists, Neil Hollingsworth, for getting me to do this and for his recent encouraging e-mails. But most of all I'd like to thank my sister, Sheila, in Bermuda as without her none of this would have been possible.

I have always been a fan of the old masters, as you may guess. I have tried a looser approach to my work but I can never help tightening it up ;-)

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The paintings are all oil on hardboard and I only use Windsor and Newton 'Liquin Original' for my medium and rarely use bristle brushes as I usually end up taking more paint off than putting it on :-)
I will be happy to answer any queries about my work or art in general.

I sometimes put work on eBay but I have been lucky enough to sell most of my work privately and all paintings shown in the blog are sold unless stated.
If you are interested in being added to my mailing list, for when new paintings become available, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Day 2

I just thought I'd add another photo today (hmmm! looking like I have a kind of lemon fetish huh!) and, hopefully, when my new camera arrives I'll be able to take some nice photos of the house and my studio.

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OK! Enough of the lemons (this is a very poor photo even after trying to tweak it in Photoshop):

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