Re starting painting

I’m settling into my temporary makeshifty mini studio in French France in a rather damp Castelnau de Montmiral. Cdm_Nov_09_IMG_6446_d.jpg

I’ve still not got my main computer working, it traveled upon dark blue velvet cushions and stiull that was not enough to keep it happy, what more can a man do???

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Delay at the quay

Subject of my next major painting will be the Quai St Jacques, Gaillac, an historical reconstruction circa 1850. My return to the quay at Mill Bay Plymouth for the ferry to France has been delayed in part because the salesman at www.find-me-a-car.co.uk found me a car with an engine management problem he has failed to … Read more

Turner and the Sea, an exhibition

The J M W Turner exhibition At the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, is quite small considering the output and reputation of WMJ Turner.

It was skilfully arranged, a nice touch was to resist showing only Turner’s work and include some of his rivals, on of John Constable’s ‘Brighton Chain Pier’ being an example, for comparison.

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