A busy Private View at the RWA Drawn 2015

We decided to 'pop' down to Bristol last night for the Private View of Drawn 2015 and Drawing On: The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art at the Royal West of England Academy. The M6 is not the best place to be on a Friday afternoon but we were glad we made the effort! Great to see lots of people filling the gallery and so many different approaches to drawing both traditional and contemporary.

Chatting to Evie Williams from the Quercus Gallery in Bath, where I will be having a solo show in October.

Drawn 2015 at The Royal West of England Academy

setting out, 30x30cm, pencil, acrylic and plaster on board

I'm delighted that my drawing 'setting out' has been selected for Drawn 2015 at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. The exhibition will be opened this Friday evening by author and critic Mel Gooding and art collector Chris Ingram.
This year’s selection panel includes Anita Taylor, artist, Director of Jerwood Drawing Prize and Dean of Bath School of Art & Design; Kate McFarlane, Director of Drawing Room, London; Yvonne Crossley RWA, artist and founder of The Drawing Gallery, and artists Tim Harrisson RWA and Fiona Robinson RWA.

Flowers for Columbia Road

I originally made some wildflower and plant drawing/paintings about 5 or 6 years ago and have since done more as commissions. As I have work at the Columbia Road Gallery next to the Flower Market I thought it would be nice to make some to exhibit there. Here are some of the ones we delivered on Sunday.

reflecting..

There has been some beautiful golden low winter sunlight recently, resulting in these little 15x15cm experiments with a bottle of gold Lascaux gouache that has been lurking in my paint cupboard for years. It has a lovely thick and velvety quality but can't easily be overpainted as it isn't waterproof when dry like acrylic. Worth persevering with I think...?

in the studio today....

A quick pic of some little new paintings with the first layer of colours applied, ready for the drawing/etching in stage.

Paintings, pots and print at the Quercus Gallery

Some more pictures from the Galliversary Summer Show at the Quercus Gallery. Left: My painting 'Silvering Time' above beautiful porcelain pots by Elizabeth Barry.

Striking book cover collage by Lauri Hopkins, left with Projection I - III

Little framed paintings 'Silvernight' next to a serene still life by Georgina Allen.

'Evening stillness' between delicate prints by Sally James and Lynda Marwood and above a geometric landscape by Vanessa Gardiner.

Summer show at the Quercus Galley, Bath

We had an enjoyable visit to Bath on Saturday to deliver some of my paintings to the Quercus Gallery ready for the forthcoming Summer Show. Quercus Gallery is a contemporary gallery in the centre of Bath showing paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, jewellery and textiles by artists such as Vanessa Gardiner, Stef Mitchell, Helen Booth and Robert Woolner. Gallery owner Evie Williams opened the gallery in June 2013, having formerly worked at Austin Desmond Fine Art, London.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 19th July to 23rd August with a private view on Friday 18th July.

Here is a little preview of some of the paintings, thank you to Evie: