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    Printers’ Trays…

    I’ve been playing with old print trays recently. When I was little my Mum had lots of these trays in her antique shop in Suffolk and my sister and I were allowed one each in which to store our treasures. Mine was full of shells and pebbles and fossils. I’ve been playing around with this […]

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    Exhibition Date Announced!

    Back in November I began to exhibit with the wonderful Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge. The last two months with them have been brilliant and i am now proud to announce my first solo exhibition there. The new body of work, entitled Tall Trees and Warm Stone, will be previewing on Thursday 28th March. There […]

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  • Stoodley Pike

    The assault on Stoodley Pike begins…

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  • Happy New Year!

    After a three week Christmas extravaganza (my family do like to string it out – I think I had 3 Christmas dinners (all with their own leftovers)) I am back in my studio today with many good intentions for the year ahead! There has been quite a lot of ‘Art’ happening over Christmas. ‘Papie?’ is […]

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  • Meet the Maker…

    As I was gallivanting down in London with Hattie at the weekend (6th Birthday treat) and not at the opening of Heart Gallery’s wonderful Christmas exhibition, I am going to be in the gallery this Sunday (November 11th) for the first of their Meet the Maker series. I shall be there from 2 til 4. […]

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  • Heart Gallery Christmas Exhibition

    Next Sunday, November 4th, Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge launches it’s Christmas exhibition… I am delighted that they have given me a big wall to fill for the occasion! I am exhibiting 4 new original paintings, some framed prints, and a browser of prints. Here is a sneak preview of the new ones… There is […]

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  • A change of plan…

    It’s been a funny old week, the upshot of which is a change of plan. My new body of work (to be collected from the framers in the morning) will be a Spring Solo exhibition at the lovely Heart Gallery on Market Street, in Spring 2013. I will be taking part in Hearts Christmas exhibition, […]

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  • Tall Trees and Warm Stone

    At last I have a date for the Calder Gallery’s grand reopening for the beginning of November. After 4 months closed due to flood damage the Calder Gallery is reopening, with the preview of my solo exhibition on the evening of 2nd November, from 6 – 8pm. Please come along!

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  • New Work

    I’ve just finished this painting It’s a view from Royd Terrace looking across to Birchcliffe – always in the sunshine. I like the way the glass building reflects the sky in the middle of the painting. This will be in the exhibition at the Calder Gallery, for which I STILL don’t have a date! Though […]

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  • Exhibition is back on!

    It does still depend on the progress of the builders, but it looks like my postponed solo exhibition at The Calder Gallery in Hebden Bridge should be back on for the end of October. Here are a couple of the new paintings: Click on the images for the full picture. They are taken from the […]

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