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Portrait study of a man. Oil on canvas 50 X 40cm.

Portrait study of a man. Oil on canvas 50 X 40cm.
I may be mostly a landscape painter, but going through the stack of older work in the spare room, I found this! About 10 years ago I took part in a two day portrait workshop run at the Bristol Drawing School, then based at Paintworks in Bristol. We had a different model each day, and this man was our subject on day 2.
Sadly I don't remember his name, but he was a brilliant model.
I'm trying to work out what to do with my back catalogue, the work that gets 'left behind' in a painting life.... All suggestions welcome!
#portraitstudy
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#paintingfaces
#lifemodel
#bristoldrawingschool
#fastwork
#stroudartist

SOLD: Stancombe Plantation. I think this is done n

SOLD: Stancombe Plantation. I think this is done now. Sprayed, scumbled, spattered. It's taken a week to be dry enough!
#wetpaint
#oilpaint
#abstractingthelandscape
#landscapepaintersofinstagram
#stroudartist
#springgreen
#mattglazemedium
#paletteknives
#longflatbrushes

Stancombe Plantation. Work in progress now very st

Stancombe Plantation. Work in progress now very sticky, so needs to dry off a bit before I go back to it. Translating one of my mixed media sketchbook drawings into oil paint, feeling my way with a new way of working. So far today this has had palette knives, big brushes and fingers thrown at it, been scraped back, spattered and drawn into. It's not where I want it to be - yet.
#experimentsinpaint
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#favouritemedium
#stroudartist
#abstractingthelandscape
#butnotverymuch

Stancombe Plantation is greening up! I love this s

Stancombe Plantation is greening up! I love this stand of trees, and have been drawn back to it at different times of the year. I missed seeing it in the snow, but this flush of green from the spring planting is just delicious. The right hand one is about trying to catch what happens when the sun comes out - sadly not for long enough to warm things up!
Splashy sketchbook work is thanks to @anitareynoldsartist and the inspiration she has brought me through the @newlynartschool #abstractingthelandscape course I signed up for recently.

#mixedmedia #foundauseforoilpastelsatlast
#seawhiteofbrighton
#concertinasketchbook - love these!
#contemporarylandscape
#inkandstick

This beautiful 1/many card from Mary Thorp @rawmix

This beautiful 1/many card from Mary Thorp @rawmixture was waiting when I got home from work last night. So lovely to have real creative treats in the post, when there's hardly an envelope without a window in it these days. My
#oneofmanypostcard collection is growing, and every one is a pearl.
@johnapedder came up with a wonderful, simple idea, and wow, has it spread round the world - but in the best possible way.
The charity I am supporting is Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen

#artthroughyourletterbox
#payitforward
#generosityofspirit
#artforgood
#linoprints
#woodblockprints
#originalartwork
#oneofmanypostcard
#globalartnetwork
#rollonthenextone

Home from work to lovely post from @vickijordanart

Home from work to lovely post from @vickijordanart and @johnapedder a #oneofmanypostcard from each of them, and a delight. The charity I have supported this time is Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen a charity supporting lone women refugees and their children.
#printmaking
#oneofmanypostcard
#artthroughyourletterbox
#payitforward
#sharethelove
#countyourblessings

Blackthorn blossom yesterday afternoon, complete w

Blackthorn blossom yesterday afternoon, complete with ladybird.
Happy Easter Monday, everyone!
#blackthorn
#sloegin
#Springissprung
#ladybirds
#bankholidaymonday
#outinthesunshine

I'm still waiting to hear from the following lovel

I'm still waiting to hear from the following lovely people who have been drawn out of the hat to have one of the #oneofmanypostcard prints. Please send me a DM with your name and your full postal address. I will post them out after Easter. The first batch (quick responders) are going today!

@ursula_potts
@joan.hanlen
@sophie.peanut
@merrynwatson
@lyndakitch
@superschiller
@l.u.c.y.l.u
@mckinleykerrie
@threepronged

Hope to hear from you soon!
#oneofmanypostcard

Hooray! The first #oneofmanypostcard prints has ar

Hooray! The first #oneofmanypostcard prints has arrived safe and sound. Thank you @artfarm123 for my lovely lobsters!
Thank you too to @johnapedder whose brilliant idea the 1/many initiative was.
#printmaking
#everybodywins
#payitforward
#artthroughyourletterbox

Update: all my 1/many prints have been posted toda

Update: all my 1/many prints have been posted today, with the exception of the one for @sophie.peanut who I'm still waiting to hear from. There's a print here for you Sophie, if you want to get in touch.😊
Thank you all, and I hope they arrive safely. Do let me know.

Today's the day! An amazing 34 of you went into the furry hat to be drawn for my #oneofmanypostcard
Here are the lucky 15 results!
@spalmleis
@ursula_potts
@joan.hanlen
@sheenaghaiken
@@sophie.peanut
@emmanuellefletcher
@merrynwatson
@wendybeez60
@kimjarvisartist
@lyndakitch
@superschiller
@l.u.c.y.l.u
@mckinleykerrie
@1treava
@threepronged

Congratulations! Please DM me with your full postal addresses -there are at least one from the USA and two from Europe! I will get these posted out to you as soon as I have the information. I love the internationality of all this - it's like having penfriends - remember those?
It would be lovely to hear where your donations are going;
@johnapedder had a simple but brilliant idea. Everybody benefits!

They're dry! There are 15 of these little Signs of

They're dry! There are 15 of these little Signs of Spring lino prints available for the #oneofmanypostcard event. I have a list of names already lined up to go into the hat 🎩 so if you would like to join them, please comment below and I'll get my in-house volunteer to draw them on April 1st.
It's such a great scheme; I send you a print; you donate what you can afford - or what you would pay for it - to the good cause of your choice. Everyone wins!
@johnapedder
@cranfieldcolours
#oneofmanypostcard
#linoprint
#caligosafewashreliefinks
#payitforward
#sharethelove
#goodcauses
#everylittlehelps
#artthroughyourletterbox
#signsofspring

This little lino print is my offering for the #one

This little lino print is my offering for the #oneofmanypostcard event on 1st April. I have been looking at stands of trees and ploughed fields, the shoots of early spring wheat emerging.
If you would like to have one, there are 15 available. If more than 15 people ask me for one, I will put everyone's name in a hat - or something similar - on the 1st of April and get a volunteer to draw them out. Please message me below if you want to be in the hat!
As I'm sure you know by now - but in case you're new to it; I send you a print free, and in exchange you pledge to donate the amount you feel it's worth to a charity of your choice. It's a brilliant idea from printmaker @johnapedder - a simple and generous project which helps charities of all sorts. Many of them have struggled to do good work during the lockdowns, and every little helps.

#oneofmanypostcard
#linoprinting
#donations
#printmaking
#inkyfingers
#artcollecting
#spreadkindness

We took our lights outside to remember Sarah Evera

We took our lights outside to remember Sarah Everard, and every woman, young or old who clenches her fist round her keys when walking home, who has her radar on full blast just to walk from A to B, who makes it home and feels a sense of relief.
And those who don't.
#teachyourboys
#forallwomen
#saraheverard
#reclaimthestreets
#weallhaveastory
#raiseyoursonsright
#forallourdaughters
#textmewhenyougethome

Mixed media on brown wrapping paper, approximately

Mixed media on brown wrapping paper, approximately A2 from a photo taken on my walk to work, using techniques worked on in the #abstractingthelandscape course run from @newlynartschool by @anitareynoldsartist
I'm having a wonderful, messy time making images that are based in my local landscape, and bumping me out of the deep rut I had got myself into. Next plan is to make the drawing the basis of a painting, stepping further away from my original photo, but keeping the sense of spring light and reflected sky that inspired me.
#mixedmedia
#compressedcarcoal
#neocolors2
#acrylics
#inkandstick
#drawing
#workingfastandloose

One from Friday, two from today. Not very big, but

One from Friday, two from today. Not very big, but I really enjoyed painting them, so something is working! #abstractingthelandscape #oilpaint
#experiments
#pretendingicanseethesea
#paletteknives
#seacolours

@johnapedder I come home to such lovely post! My f

@johnapedder I come home to such lovely post! My fab little collection is growing; Astrid the Astronaut is surrounded by #love #hope and #smallmercies
Ill be off to donate a thank you to the food bank in the morning, John. ❤️
#passitforward
#woodblockprint
#printmakersofinstagram
#astridtheastronaut
#oneofmanypostcard

The very first oil from #abstractingthelandscape p

The very first oil from #abstractingthelandscape process. I don't usually paint with knives, and this is very small! Swipe to see it and where it came from. Still not sure where all this is going!
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#paintingknives
#process
#cornishcoast
#manganeseblue
#colourmixing

What happens when a painting on a big sheet gets c

What happens when a painting on a big sheet gets chopped up and shuffled. Small abstracted paintings appear and they inspire new pieces, still connected to the original but a step away. I'm going to try to turn one or two of these into oils (always my medium of choice). If it works, I'll post some here - or maybe even if it doesn't! 🤔
#abstractingthelandscape
#mixedmedia
#oilpastel
#indianink
#drawingwithastick
#markmaking
#thesea
#splashes

One side of my little concertina sketchbook is now

One side of my little concertina sketchbook is now full, after a splashy session with ink, chalk, neocolor, some acrylic and compressed charcoal. Now to turn it over and head back the other way... Then I made a concertina sketchbook with kraft paper and bits of spare mountboard. It's a bit rough and ready, but a new surface to work on.
@newlynartschool
@anitareynoldsartist
#abstractingthelandscape
#mixedmedia
#cornishcoast
#concertinasketchbook

WIP mixed media Stream, Toadsmoor valley. Black ac

WIP mixed media Stream, Toadsmoor valley. Black acrylic, compressed charcoal, chalk, Neocolours. Splashy, scribbly, scratchy - in danger of going through the buff paper. Still processing the ways to apply what I'm learning from @anitareynoldsartist to what I do!
Collage next - might tear this up! 😲
@newlynartschool
@anitareynoldsartist
#mixedmedia
#compressedcarcoal
#neocolors2
#reflections
#stream
#earlyspring
#gorgeousday

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