Sketches of Chile
We returned from our travels in Chile yesterday. I made lots and lots of sketches. Here are just three. If you want to see more, check out my Facebook page, you don’t need to be a Facebook user to see them. If you are a FB user, don’t forget to ‘like’ me – I’ll be [...]
Pre-Christmas 2011 sale on Facebook
I’ve been digging around in boxes, draws and folders and found a load of original paintings in need of good homes. And so I’ve put together this eclectic collection of unframed, originals on my Facebook page, and I’ve kept the prices as low as possible. If you’d like one, please email me before 3 Nov [...]
Chalk Hill Blues – a card for Christmas
What with one thing and another this year I have been unable to produce a brand new 2011 Christmas card design for you. I know some of you have been sending my cards out for many years now and I don’t want to disappoint you, so I offer you a verdant and lively alternative! As [...]
Avebury map on sale in The Henge Shop
My map of Avebury, pictured here with me at the stones, is now on sale in The Henge Shop, Avebury. Or, if you’re not in Avebury, you can get one right here … folded in a cover, as shown, or flat and signed for framing.
Map of Avebury
I’m delighted to announce the publication – at long last – of my newest hand-drawn map; of the unique and ancient village of Avebury in Wiltshire. Click on the image to enlarge it. It shows all the features you’d expect – the henge, stones, shops, houses, pubs and roads – and some you wouldn’t expect! [...]
The suicide of Vincent van Gogh – 29 July 1890
This post also appears on Dorian Cope’s blog On This Deity. On 27 July 1890, Vincent van Gogh, an unkempt, unknown 37-year-old Dutchman, walked out of his lodgings in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, just north of Paris, where he had been living and working since May. That day instead of his usual easel and paints, [...]
The death of Frida Kahlo – 13 July 1954
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” …and Frida’s reality was a lifetime of extreme physical pain and tortuous suffering, punctuated with a tempestuous emotional turbulence. Artist Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, the daughter of Hungarian Jewish father and indigenous Mexican mother. She [...]
Map of Avebury – progress so far
After I made hand-drawn maps of Eynsham, Woodstock and Stanton Harcourt last year, I didn’t want to draw another map. But my map-making mojo returned this spring and I’m currently about 75% of the way through my latest hand-drawn map, of the tiny village of Avebury in Wiltshire. Avebury is unique in that it is [...]
Exhibition continues this weekend in Eynsham and Woodstock
My hand drawn map of Woodstock is currently on show at the Creative Art Gallery in Woodstock. It felt only right that the first time the map was shown it should be in the town that inspired it. I’ll be signing and hand-tinting copies of it tomorrow between 3pm and 5pm at the gallery. Meanwhile [...]
Artweeks exhibition – opens tomorrow, 14 May
My exhibition opens tomorrow. There’s more information, including a short and funky sneak-preview film here. Opening times: Saturday 14 May 12noon to 5.30pm Sunday 15 May 12noon to 5.30pm Thursday 19 May 5.30 to 8pm Saturday 21 May 12noon to 5.30pm Sunday 22 May 12noon to 5.30pm Do come along for a cuppa!
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