Art of Norwich 35 is on soon

                                             

                                              

From the 29th June till the 12th of July I will be part of Art of Norwich 35 exhibition at St. Margaret's church of art. The exhibition also covers the Norwich Lanes festival that happens every year and is on the 6th of July. 

I am hoping to have new work for the show and more affordable sized work of pictures of in and around Norwich. I have got side tracked with all the sorting studio at home. That I am not sure how much work I will get done for the exhibition. 

I will also have postcards of my past work on sale. Come along and see the show. 

Dido Belle is an O'Hare

My ancestor Dido Belle has been made into a movie and is out now in cinemas near you. It was about 10 years ago that my Aunty Margaret told me that I was related to Dido Belle on the O'Hare side. On my mothers side my Granny was a genealogist and historian so she had every relation discovered but the O'Hare side needed digging out, so my aunt went to the trouble of finding out the history. I am not sure if the film is completely correct. But I shall find out when I had to the cinema this week. 

Sketch back Sunday The first one

This week I been forced to tidy up my studio with all the festivities of Dandifest and everything going out of the house and then going back in no order it is now a complete mess. I thought would take a day to tidy and I am now into week 2 of tidying and will next time budget that into my arts grants. While tidying I came across some old sketches which I thought I should exhibit in my new "Sketch back Sunday" on facebook as a follow on from "Throwback Thursday" where people post there old photos of the past. My sketch back sunday seems to be favoured as it has had a few comments and lots of likes.
In this photo I drew my mothers front room when I was 16 and had moved over from Ireland to go to college in Norwich. I am now living back in the same house and the front room is one of my studio;s and the shelves are as wide as an A1 sketch book and there loaded up.

A sketch of Graham in a pub in Saltburn up north a big gang of us from college were off to a party and stopped in at a pub on the way only that we get thrown out because the landlord of the pub thought Graham was smoking something funny. He was smoking a roll up which some un educated people think are something else a bit stronger. Graham went to Leeds art college and his painting skills were amazing.

Oh my god this is a sketch that I dont remember drawing until I found it and started looking at. Its a very young Jeanie Finley and I on a college trip to Amsterdam where we carrying around a big video camera just filming what we find. We rested up in a brown cafe. I am sure we looked high and low for a brown bar to see what all the fuss was about them. Out side the cafe there is the trade mark 3 x bollards and the tall buildings and canal. Jeanie continued her filming and has directed some top documentaries since the early days. This could be 1990.

James potato Doctor Fowler has just spent a week in the fields digging his experimental spuds and come home to his lodgings with my Aunt in Cambridge. This would have been drawn in the late 80's felt tip pen and paper. I was at Yarmouth art college and went through a potato period and screen printed potato plants on t-shirts and many other potato mused things. Watch out for next weeks Sketch back Sunday.
  

Art of Norwich 34

The Norwich Dandies and artists are exhibiting at St. Margaret's church of art on St.Benidict's in Norwich till this Saturday. I will be there on Friday morning till 1.30pm. So come down for a chat to the artist. Lots of art to buy for presents for people. Art makes a great Heir loom gift as it increases in value over the years.
I have lots of paintings that were given to me as a child that have been with me all my life on many different walls of my various homes.

Dandifest in Norwich is now Arts council of England funded!!

Go the Norwich Dandies. Our first very inclusive arts festival. Lots happening please check the www.norwichdandies.blogspot.co.uk blog for more details or find us in facebook. I am sure when we get another grant you will find we might have a dapper website.
St. Margaret's church of Art will have disabled toilets and access with ramps etc.