Elevated Art Fair

I am at Leadenhall Market in the city of London this week as part of the Elevated art show. I am there with a few of my Angel paintings from Monday 18th June - Friday 22nd June.    

 

Looking and Seeing

I have been busy this week working on the face of a painting that was started some time ago.  I felt it needed a pair of brown eyes to give it more of a focus point.

I was also out and about in the City.  While there I left one of my feathers on a building and then watched the people rushing around looking at maps and routes but not really looking at the city.  I'm wondering if the feather is still there.

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.

Hot

It must be the warm weather that is influencing my work as the new painting has a lot of hot colours.  There is still a small amount of blue that is not visible from this detail but as I usually never follow the initial idea in my head fully, it may all change.

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.

Spirit in a bottle

I have started a new project which came from an older project.  Last year I made a piece of work 'spirit in a bottle' that was a champagne advert with a superimposed angel face.  The new project is a collection of empty champagne bottles that I have added images to and I am thinking of putting them out as free art.