Busy month with my events…………….lots of travelling and not enough painting!
A week in Dublin’s fair city was great as it is nearly 20 years since I was last there. Wonderful Georgian Architecture…. Doors, Doors and more wonderful doors!
Then up to Liverpool. The Rene Magritte Exhibition opened the day after I left! Very bad timing!! Don’t you miss it……. on at the Tate Liverpool until October. My favourite Magritte portrait……………La Reproduction Interdite .1937
Then back to base, unpack, repack and off the France for 5 days…………Great weather, good food, sparkling company!
The chateaux of the Loire Valley are magnificent in their grandeur but for me, the fantastic details within are equally captivating.
June issue of Snooker Scene covers my story in Crucible notebook. Many thanks to Clive Everton for his complimentary feature. www.snookerscene.co.uk
My new canvases arrive and I make a start on the John Higgins and Michaela Tabb portraits.
June always brings fathers day………………. a special time to remember our Dads. Gone, but not forgotten, Alan bought me my first colour pencils, taught me how to paint, and how to appreciate painting time is precious! If he had not been such a great Dad he would have been “off painting pictures in Cornwall” ……… A threat that always made us miraculously behave, and wonder about that distant, artist’s paradise!
Making the most of the sunshine I have been onto the beach with Salty C Dog early in the mornings. We watched someone having some action shots of their dog being taken. Kate and Craig Smith of kickass-phodography.co.uk take some fantastic photographs. Take a look at their website and get your model pooch booked in!
