Can You See Me?

My painting 'This is Why' is now in the Ben Oakley Gallery 9 Turnpin Lane, Greenwich Market, London SE10 9JA.

100 Bottles

This is one of a hundred bottles I am spray painting faces on for a window display in a soon to open London restaurant.  It is a really lovely project as the bottles are a mix of shapes, sizes and colours with different labels and tags on them.  Each time I open a new box I find another interesting bottle that I will want to cut a stencil for.  I will post more images and more information on the project as I get further into the work.

Diamond Jubilee

I had a really good evening celebrating the Diamond Jubilee at the Ben Oakley Gallery.  Food, drink, music, and good company.  The paintings of Ray Richardson were still on show and added to the atmosphere.

Many of the artists were there and partied on to the DJ compilations till the early hours of the morning.

More Girls

The champagne bottles I painted the other week have gone out into the street as free art.  It felt odd leaving them in places as they seem to have their own personalities - a bit like saying goodbye to a child.  I then collected some new bottles to paint.  Being made of glass they are quite fragile and yet heavy to carry around so just as well some of them already have homes to go to.  

  

Study of an angel

While I'm busy on a new painting I have also been working on a study of an angel.  Using stencils I cut for an earlier picture (the blue angel) I have made a much smaller and lighter version.  This gives me time out from the main work I'm doing at the moment and lets me experiment with colour and ideas.