The new Hepworth Museum, Wakefield

Take a look at the website for the new Barbara Hepworth Museum in Wakefield, Yorks.  Stunning setting, architecture and exhibitions.   Just managed to get one or two photos.   Photography not allowed except in two rooms.

This is a photo I managed to get of some of her maquettes.

My painting selected for exhibition at Weston Park

Visit Weston Park

This mixed-media painting was completed after sketching whilst sitting out in the countryside in Yorkshire.  It was pouring with rain.  I was cold, wet and miserable.  My borrowed tent blew away and my precious rain hat disappeared down the bottom of the gully beneath a sheep's grid.

 

The Halls Fine Art Open competition is to be held at Weston Park

Monday 1st August - Wednesday 31st August  2011

New Painting in Exhibition

The painting below has recently been accepted for the Birmingham Botanical Gardens Summer  Exhibition

Visit the Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Open from Saturday 16th July to 5th September 2011. 

It is a mixed media painting and is entitled

           "Dawn over the Lake"

Birmingham Botanical Gardens Exhibition Entry

Atcham in Flood, Shropshire

The media I used for this painting is acrylic.  

I travelled to Atcham in Shropshire when the floods were at their height.   It was a gloomy stormy day.   I sat and sketched in the pouring rain just putting down enough information to  later capture the scene in paint.

On my return I painted quickly with as much immediacy as possible in order not to lose the excitement of the moment.