Sunday 21 April 2013

Feeding the Imagination

This week my fluffy friends have turned their attention to their diets. A strict five-a-day regime has been adopted in an effort to keep them at their best. By this we mean five acres a day. Keeping the hills and meadows neat and trim takes a lot of effort and they have to munch constantly. I'm hoping this will get me the best presented farm for the third year running. There's no points for long grass, weeds or bunching up of livestock. When the judges arrive the animals need to be spread evenly over the fields.
To make it a bit more attractive to the stock I've introduced some new varieties of grass. This has two benefits- a more varied diet and some more colours in my paintings.

I must go now, before I get sectioned!

Lilac Lunch

Mowing the Meadow

Monday 8 April 2013

The Show Goes On

The exhibition at Harrison Lord in Brighouse has gone very well. The combination of great presentation and hard work has resulted in healthy sales of original pieces.
I want to thank Steven Lord and his staff for their continued enthusiasm and support.




Following this, the next venue will be Priory Art in Tynemouth, commencing on Saturday 13th April. Jan Tandy will be taking delivery of a range of original pieces over the course of the next few days. In the meantime I need to be busy replacing work that has been purchased by those who have seen the work to date.
It's really exciting that this work and my new 'icons' have proved to be popular with collectors. I cant wait to see what the future holds.


Monday 18 March 2013

Making an Exhibition of Myself

'Where have I been?'-you may ask.

Well, the truth is I've been rather busy in my studio and it's given me time to think.
Following my successful exhibition in Sheffield I have several more to follow.
My peaceful country scenes are appearing in galleries across the UK.
It's a good job really, as it seems we may be hearing the patter of tiny trotters soon.
Following an 'eventful' visit from a very frisky boar we've got some happy sows busy knitting lots of booties. The sheep have been very curious given the strange squeals going on day and night seven days a week!

But there's more news. Life down on the farm has given me a taste for the village life.
This has resulted in me producing some new pieces, a few of which I have put below.
You may recognise a few familiar characters from my farms here.

Not being one to sit still though, I have also decide to introduce another style of work to my portfolio. This now resides in a sister blog-just tap on the link at the bottom of this week's post.

See you soon!

Just Busy Chewing

The Baby Sitters

The Big Rescue

Time to Celebrate

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