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ARTISTS OPEN HOUSE EXHIBITION 2017
Our exhibition is open every Saturday and Sunday from 11am until 6pm. You have just six more opportunities to…
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GULLEY JIMSON
In 1958 the book ‘The Horses Mouth’ was made into a film starring Alec Guinness. It was directed by…
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Watching Paint Dry.
Watching paint dry. Last Saturday I gave a demonstration of my acrylic painting technique in a huge new…
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CANVAS, HARDBOARD, PAPER, or PLANK
A lot of non-artists don’t have much idea about why artists use such a variety of surfaces for their…
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ARTISTIC LICENCE
Wikipedia describes artistic licence as a colloquial term used to denote a deliberate distortion of fact by artists and…
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AUSTRALIA and Ten Pound Poms
Australia and Ten Pound Poms. I am glad that I stayed in the UK. An artist needs access…
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HOGS HAKES AND FILBERTS
HOGS, HAKES and FILBERTS are kinds of brushes that artists use. … Simple. So they are not pigs, fish…
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BAYSWATER ROAD
A successful Bayswater artist would paint all week and sell out on a fine Sunday.
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THE GOLDEN RATIO
Salvador Dali used the golden ratio in his masterpiece, The Sacrament of the Last Supper. Mondrian has been said…
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ROTHKO AND POLLOCK.
Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock are two of the new wave of abstract expressionist artists that sprang up in…