I've just been to my lovely framers, Barbara, at Middleton St. George to sort out the framing for my Lindisfarne Gospel work. Am very excited. The exhibition isn't until the end of August but it's good to be on top of it all!

So what else have I been up to? As you can see from my previous post I have been busy getting ready for my solo exhibition at Had2Buy Gallery in Darlington. My work will be there for the whole of July and apart from original paintings there will be giclée prints and cards available to buy. This is one you'll be able to see...

Nasturtiums

and here are two on the easel at the moment...

Spring

Dales Landscape



Solo Exhibition and other such things...

 
 
I thought I'd start with one on the easel at the moment - Queen Anne's Lace AKA Cow Parsley. Still tweaking to do but am trying to emphasize the spatial relationship between the three stalks with the three trees on the horizon.

 








I am also delighted to announce that I have my first solo exhibition at Had2Buy Gallery in Darlington.

 

 

 

 

Working study for Lindisfarne 2013

Thought I best get cracking with putting some of my ideas actually on paper, so here we go...

laying down a collage.

 
 
Words, tissue paper and an assortment of papers I knew would come in handy sooner or later! The text is from an old Indian tale which I have chosen to draw a parallel  between comparative religions and the Canon Tables from the Gospels.

 

It is said that once upon a time a king gathered a few men who were born blind. They were asked to describe an elephant, but each one was presented with only a certain part of it. To one was presented the head of the elephant, to another the trunk, to another its ears, to another the leg, the body, the tail, tuft of the tail, etc. The one who was presented with the head said: "The elephant is like a pot!" The one who was presented the trunk answered, "The elephant is like a hose." The one who touched only the ears thought that the elephant was a fan, the others said that it was a pillar, a wall, a rope, a brush, etc. Then they quarrelled among themselves, each thinking that he was the only one right and the others were wrong. The obvious truth is that the elephant is a unity of many parts, a unity that they could not grasp in their ignorance.  Pasted from <http://www.comparativereligion.com/>