the wellington place factor

I have continued to make these small directly observed (mostly) paintings revealing little snippets of our home in Leith. I am very pleased that after so many years of doing no paintings like this, that I can pull it off on such a small scale and using thicker paint....

Edinburgh College of Art

Well, here we are at the end of November and yet again no blog for ages. Perhaps I should give it up. Maybe now every tom, dick and harry is doing one, the appeal has worn off. But when I am not painting, there seems little point in blogging, as that is what I want to...
The Bears of Wellington Place

The Bears of Wellington Place

I had a week on my own as Catharine went down to Reading to clear out her house before it was sold on Friday. I had a busy week at work as we were hosting the University Association of Lifelong Learning Conference on Monday and Tuesday. So it was late nights all week...

Catie and the Bears

Well, at last Catie and I are together in Edinburgh. She came back from working at Cyprus College of Art (now in Larnaca) in early September with some wonderful drawings and paintings from her 2 months there, which you can see on her website. Catie was also...