Did you know I was Polish?
08 September 2010 23:14
No, not really. I´m not Polish - I´m Irish but as the Polish community in Ealing couldn´t find a local Polish artist to exhibit at their Polish event kicking off on Haven Green, Ealing Boadway this weekend from 11am (Saturday 11th September) - they asked me.
I´m a bit worried about how other stall holders will take to the idea of having someone there who isn´t Polish, but hopefully they won´t mind too much. Should be fun.
I´ve also got an open studio event the weekend of 18th September with a private view. Ready more in latest news. Hope to see you there.
Famous at last
25 July 2010 20:11
About two weeks ago I heard through a friend of the family that a school in Wales is studying famous artists of our time and that one of the artists they were studying was me! I´m not sure how that came to be - maybe the teacher is a fan but it´s very flattering nonetheless! And funny.
īTescopolisī
13 May 2010 10:48
Very pleased that my latest print ´Tescopolis´ won the Hector Purchase Prize Award at the Royal Society of Painter-Printmaker´s annual show last week.
Tescopolis (obviously a play on the name ´Metropolis´) is a city full of Tesco´s.
I was pleased to win this award as the print took months of hard labour to produce and I nearly gave up on the idea many times. To celebrate I had a few beers with other artists in the pub opposite Bankside Gallery and dragged myself home at 1am. My wife wasn´t too pleased until she realised the award included £500 cash which I handed over immediately. That´ll help pay some of the overdraft. Yippee!
Sitting at Southbank Printmakers
26 April 2010 23:07
This is my first blog. Today was my ´one day a month´ invigilating day at the Southbank Printmaker´s Gallery (part of an artist´s cooperative) at Gabriel´s Wharf.
When we started ten years ago, I used to dread going in there for my shift. The time dragged on and on and on. Since I´ve had children, I can´t wait to get there. Sometimes early. So I can get on with some drawing.
It´s always nice to talk to the people that come into the gallery. There´s a whole mix of people from all over the world and we chat about anything from art to the history of African countries! Today, two very nice printmakers from Northern Ireland came in and I chatted to them for about an hour!
Also a guy came in and a very odd conversation took place where he just explained where he came from and what he´d been doing today.
Today shot by.
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