All set for a new exhibition!
These framed paintings are about to be hung at Bodnant Art Gallery, which is a venue I’ve been displaying work at for over three years now. Its situation is ideal, above the Craft Centre at Bodnant Gardens, the National Trust property near Conwy. There are about twenty artists (all from North Wales) with permanent displays […]
Winter’s Day Study
A useful exercise if you feel like you’re getting stuck with the development of your paintings is to copy another artist’s work. I am obviously not advocating stealing someone else’s work, or becoming over-reliant on a particular style or technique! I tend to look at older paintings rather than the work of contemporary artists, and […]
Clwydian Hills
An afternoon walk in late October… an opportunity to observe and reflect. I’m on the western slopes of the Clwydian hills, and looking west across the Vale of Clwyd to the distant hills and mountains of Conwy and Snowdonia. Today I’m particularly noticing the shadows cast by the low sun. Their colours, their shapes, their […]