Ashdown Autumn

I've been a bit remiss in posting work in progress recently. This is a picture I finished a couple of weeks ago. Oil on canvas, 24"x24".

Michael: Grumpy chicken

Wendy was having a bad day in the hencoop.

Michael: SGFA exhibition

Last night, we went to the opening of the SGFA Exhibition at the Menier Gallery in London.

Found one of my prints in the window!

Photos (C) William de Wilde

Fred Cuming, RA opened the exhibition.

Lots of good and inspiring drawings in exhibition. I was fascinated by this picture by Marie Blake: at first glance, we thought it was a watercolour, but closer inspection revealed that it was a linocut, slowly built up from about five carefully cut blocks, printed in pale thin colours.

And some excellent work by Myrtle Pizzey (sorry, I don't have a photo), and this print by Eric Gaskell.

Again, we were deceived: the detailed, close cutting made it look like wood engraving... but it's a linocut.

I liked this print by Shenac Rogerson, of one of my favourite places, Avebury.

There's some texture on the stones (which unfortunately doesn't show on this photo) which I think was created by spattering ink onto the plate before printing it.

The exhibition continues until Saturday 15 October, 2011.

Sheri - exhibition

During October, I have a small collection of paintings on display at Oyster Fine Frames, Lingfield. The exhibition is a mixture of my landscape and portrait work, including many of the landscapes from my recent series of Ashdown Forest paintings. If you're in the area, do pop along!