Night Paintings Series

A small series of watercolours inspired by my night paintings sketchbook. I am not entirely happy with them, I probably need to go back to doing some in the sketchbook to get the feel of painting in a more automatic and free thinking way.

They are still quite small, each painting measures 16x16cm and the colour representation is not great either it's been so dull here, it's really difficult to photograph anything.
Also, trying to tweak the blog a little so you might see it changing over the next few days, probably ending up with me putting back to how it was originally!!

Painting

A few things that have been happening recently, excitingly I have a few paintings in a small exhibition at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale. The exhibition is in the gallery bar and is on until early December, all work is for sale. I have also finished three large paintings, started a series of watercolours based on my night paintings sketchbook and another series inspired by the seasons, and at last I have been on a printing course at Hot Bed Press in Manchester called Painterly Screenprinting, photos to follow in subsequent posts, but for know here is a little sneak peak.

Black and White

I went for a short walk today with the intention of photographing some Autumn colour, but came back with these black and white images instead.

Voices Plus - Quilt Art Exhibition

I almost missed this exhibition by the Quilt Art group, but just managed to squeeze in a visit on it's very last day at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale. And what a beautiful exhibition it was with some very diverse work by an international group of quilt artists. In a statement they say that " The aim of the group is to extend the boundaries of quilting as an artistic medium and achieve wider recognition of the quilt as a contemporary art form". Here are some of my favourites.

Jette Clover

Yael David Cohen

Val Jackson

Mirjam Pet-Jacobs

And my absolute favourite was Elizabeth Brimelow.

Voices is a touring exhibition and has now moved to The Brindley in Runcorn.

Exhibitions

Elaine Pamphilon has a new exhibition starting on the 20th October at the Adam Gallery in Bath, it finishes on the 12th November.

Edmund de Waals latest exhibition at Alan Cristea is getting good reviews, a thousand hours is on now and finishes on the 10th of November.

                           Edmund de Waal: a thousand hours from Alan Cristea Gallery on Vimeo.

Last Days of Summer

Some photographs taken on one of the very last warm sunny days that we had early in September.

New Paintings

Feeling a little more inspired, Summers End 2012 series.