Updated: February 2018
Cambridge Drawing Society Spring Exhibition 2018
This spring's CDS Exhibition is taking place from April 14th to Apr 21st, 10:00am to 16:00pm at The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP.
I aim to be exhibiting a few pieces, including this charcoal drawing, as yet unnamed, of a view along King's Parade in the city.
Over 400 original works will be exhibited including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. The venue is just a few minutes from the Grand Arcade carpark.
http://cambridgedrawingsociety.org/
This spring's CDS Exhibition is taking place from April 14th to Apr 21st, 10:00am to 16:00pm at The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP.
I aim to be exhibiting a few pieces, including this charcoal drawing, as yet unnamed, of a view along King's Parade in the city.
Over 400 original works will be exhibited including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. The venue is just a few minutes from the Grand Arcade carpark.
http://cambridgedrawingsociety.org/
Portraits
Over winter I have been working on a few portraits, including this one 'Wonder Woman', which I have had selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Open Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London from Thursday 10 to Friday 25 May 2018 (10am to 5pm, open until 7pm on Tuesdays).
Thanks to my model Lisa for her help.
www.mallgalleries.org.uk
Over winter I have been working on a few portraits, including this one 'Wonder Woman', which I have had selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Open Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London from Thursday 10 to Friday 25 May 2018 (10am to 5pm, open until 7pm on Tuesdays).
Thanks to my model Lisa for her help.
www.mallgalleries.org.uk
'Wonder Woman', oil on board, 120x94cm
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'Wonder Woman', detail
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The Cambridge Art Book
Available now is 'The Cambridge Art Book', a collection of paintings, drawings and prints by Cambridge artists of the city they live in. Created by Emma Bennett, her hard work and dedication has proved a great success, and in turn the exposure it has given my work has led to an invite from Byard Art on King's Parade to create 4 large Cambridge pieces for an exhibition in May-June 2018. Check the website www.thecambridgeartbook.co.uk for stockists.
Included are three of my Cambridge images including the painting 'Passageway onto King's' (above right), which is available as a print (£30 unframed) via contact here, or also at Cambridge's award-winning vegetarian restaurant the Rainbow Cafe on King's Parade who are selling framed prints and also using the image on their menu (the view is of King's College from Rainbow's alleyway).
Old Mr Farrer - and Young Mr Farrer!
In 2013 I finished my first drawing for nearly 25 years, 'Old Mr Farrer up the Road'. It was from a photo I took in my late 20s of Ted Farrer, a neighbour of my parents in St. Neots. The drawing proved a great success, winning the 'visitor's favourite' at the Cambridge Drawing Society's Spring Exhibition that year. Sadly Mr Farrer passed not long after I took the photo, never having seen the photo or drawing, and until recently I never knew whether his family had seen it either.
Fast forward to the summer of 2017, and I receive a phone call from Bob Farrer, Ted's son, who has been shown a postcard of the drawing by an old St Neots' friend of mine, Terry Lee. Bob is delighted with the discovery, and a few days later I meet up with him (now Young Mr Farrer to me!) and a very life-affirming chat takes place round my house. I hear about what a character Ted was, and we look at lots of old photos and reminisce about the neighbourhood, and the old faces who lived there, including my own dad who would have been very happy with the whole thing. Meanwhile Bob commissioned me another drawing of his dad (below), this time performing on stage in something or other (though he was actually a builder). See the progress of the drawing, which shows the top left to bottom right approach that 'smudgy' charcoal necessitates.
In 2013 I finished my first drawing for nearly 25 years, 'Old Mr Farrer up the Road'. It was from a photo I took in my late 20s of Ted Farrer, a neighbour of my parents in St. Neots. The drawing proved a great success, winning the 'visitor's favourite' at the Cambridge Drawing Society's Spring Exhibition that year. Sadly Mr Farrer passed not long after I took the photo, never having seen the photo or drawing, and until recently I never knew whether his family had seen it either.
Fast forward to the summer of 2017, and I receive a phone call from Bob Farrer, Ted's son, who has been shown a postcard of the drawing by an old St Neots' friend of mine, Terry Lee. Bob is delighted with the discovery, and a few days later I meet up with him (now Young Mr Farrer to me!) and a very life-affirming chat takes place round my house. I hear about what a character Ted was, and we look at lots of old photos and reminisce about the neighbourhood, and the old faces who lived there, including my own dad who would have been very happy with the whole thing. Meanwhile Bob commissioned me another drawing of his dad (below), this time performing on stage in something or other (though he was actually a builder). See the progress of the drawing, which shows the top left to bottom right approach that 'smudgy' charcoal necessitates.
'B', oil on canvas.
April 2014
