iPadding
I have wanted an iPad for the past year, and finally I have saved enough pennies to buy one. I love it! It’s my new sketchbook, canvas, palette and jar of brushes all in one neat little package. I have surprised myself at how fast I have picked up painting with the iPad. More or [...]
Cards, paintings, maps – nice things to buy
If you’re looking for something different, I might have something for you. I have a selection of paintings available right now in my clearance sale some at prices you wouldn’t believe for original works of art: many under £80! Browse my selection of greetings cards – all of which are suitable for just about any [...]
Harper Lee publishes To Kill A Mockingbird – 11 July 1960
“…Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing … [...]
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and the first photograph
This blog also appears on Dorian Cope’s blog On This Deity. Look at the camera and say ‘cheese’ and ‘thank you’ to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce who died on this day in 1833, for it was Niépce who changed the way we view the world. Born in France 1765 into a middle-class family Niépce was well-educated [...]
The extinction of the Great Auk – 3 July 1844
The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was once a common and magnificent sight in the sparkling waters of the North Atlantic. About 30 inches (80cm) tall and weighing in at a whopping 11lbs (5kgs), this handsome bird was the northern equivalent of the penguin. Its closest living relative is the razorbill which has a similar range [...]
Amelia Earhart disappears – 2 July 1937
“…first lady of the skies, she had no guy holding her down, no one could clip her wings, she was no bird in the hand, she is no living thing now…” from the poem ‘Amelia Earhart’ by Patti Smith When 10-year-old Amelia Earhart saw an aircraft for the first time at the 1907 the Iowa [...]
Professor John Alexander Tomlinson: obituary
Plant pathologist, virologist, saviour of the British watercress industry, BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc My father, who died on Tuesday 12 June 2012, was born into a working class family in Birmingham in 1927. What he lacked materially in early life was made up for in brains, courage and determination. (Pictured below, on HMS Queen Mary [...]
Inspired by British wildlife
Since the end of my Artweeks exhibition, I have only managed to paint two canvases, both inspired by the glories of English nature in May. In my ideal world it would always be May; I love the air heavy with the sweet scent of blossoms and grasses and foliage rushing to full leaf, and the [...]
Second prize in the Big Oxfordshire Artweeks Vote
I’m both pleased and disappointed to report that my painting ‘Towards Uffington’ came second in the Big Oxfordshire Artweeks competition to find a painting that best sums up the spirit of Oxfordshire. That’s not bad out of 32 pretty good paintings, is it? And the best thing is that it was the opinion of general [...]
The Pill first becomes available to American women – 9 May 1960
This article also appears on Dorian Cope’s blog On This Deity. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother” - Margaret Sanger The most revolutionary and liberating act for women is surely the availability of The Contraceptive Pill. Before The Pill contraception was a [...]
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