Goings on in the Park

I have been so busy with finishing commissions and doing things related to Cloudhopper Gallery that I have not been in the Park much lately but when I did get there on a sunny Saturday in March I snapped these runners, part of a weekly run which takes place there.

Thistle patch, stage 1

I decided to abandon the last painting I posted on my blog and covered  it with blue tinted primer to be reborn as something else. It will form part of a trio of works  inspired by a patch of thistles in Hotham Park.Here is the first stage of one of them.  

Whats next?

I enjoyed doing two  collages pictures for the recycled show so much that I have decided to do a few more. Yesterday I did a quick trawl around the various stationers in Chichester to find some new papers to use. Here is what  found. Watch this space!  

Aftermath

Usually when I  work in my studio I try to tidy as I go putting paints back in order so that I can quickly lay hands on them again when needed. At the end of the day I tidy up  ready for the morning. Now my studio looks like the aftermath of some sort of…

Improvising

What a week! Last weekend we put up our annual recycle exhibition in the Cloudhopper Gallery and held our Wearable Art Fashion show. To my delight later I sold a picture from the gallery and because this left a gap in our display I did another along the same lines called Wabi Sabi Blossom Time….

Now something different

I am involved with Community Arts Bognor Regis and one of the things we do is run the Cloudhopper Gallery on 69 High Street. We are all volunteers and serve the community by putting on exhibitions and events for local artists. We recently had our second Wearable Art Fashion Show which was a lot of…

Thistledown

Whilst going through the many photos I took during my year as artist for Hotham Park I came across this one.