Palau de Casavells

I currently have several of my smaller works on display at this beautiful old farm in Casavells, just outside Barcelona.

 

They have a wonderful selection of mid century modern furniture as well as older antiques, and some great contemporary art - even if I do say so myself! 

Find all the information you need here : Palau de Casavells

New Works

I've been in the studios a lot recently, for meetings about upcoming exhibitions at Studio One Gallery, Wandsworth Town Centre Partnership board meetings (not quite as boring as it sounds!) I have also been painting!

May Painting, oil on canvas

Square Painting, oil on canvas

I'm So Upset, I'm So Upset, oil on canvas

My Mother's Well, oil on canvas

Art in London with Artist Charlie - Stay.com

I was thrilled to be invited by Stay.com to contribute a travel guide to London for artists to their website.

You can find the link here:

Art in London with Artist Charlie - Stay.com

There's some more obvious destinations, but also some lesser known, like L. Corneilsons & Son, a wonderful shop, and Transition Gallery in East London, an artist run space managed by Cathy Lomax and Alli Sharma.

I hope you enjoy my little artist's tour of our capital. 

Abstract work showing in Barcelona

November Painting
Oil on canvas
2012

I have packaged and sent two of my large abstract works to Barcelona. Miquel Alzueta likes them and will be showing them in his refurbished gallery very soon.

Unnecessary Punctuation
Oil on canvas
2012

 

 

 

Also May is Open House month in Brighton, and I am showing prints of my smaller figurative work at Jilted Dog Art, 90 Essex Place, Montague Street, BN2 every weekend in May.

This Is Not A Love Song
2008

...Standing In The Shadows
2008

Psycho Killer
2010

Prints available!

I'm very excited to be going to Harwood King fine art printmakers tomorrow, armed with a memory stick full of images. I'm planning to make sixteen of my older works available as prints, including these four:

Oh Smother Me Mother
Oil on board
2008

This Is Not A Love Song
Oil on canvas
2008

Psycho Killer
Oil on board
2010

Where My Childhood Was Unspent
Oil on board
2011

I cannot wait to see them as prints. They will be shown at Jilted Dog Art, 90 Essex Place, Brighton during May's Open House Festival.

Works in Galeria Miguel Alzueta

I'm very pleased to announce that several of my older paintings are currently on show at Galeria Miguel Alzueta in Barcelona.

Yes There Are Things Worse in Life
oil on board

This Is How It Feels To Be Lonely
Oil on board

I Can't Help The Way I Feel
oil on board

Life Is Very Long When You're Lonely
Oil on board

Miguel has taken ten paintings, including these four, and is showing them in his wonderful gallery. I hope to go over to Barcelona very soon to have a look! He deals in mid century modern furniture as well as art, so it's definitely a great place to visit when you're in town. Thanks to my good friend Bernat Daviu for helping me.

It's been a while...

It's been months since my last blog post, many apologies. But what a few months it has been!

I've moved to Brighton, adopted a dog, been painting, been given a space to use as a gallery in Wandsworth, opened the gallery, had a two person exhibition there with Mark Nader, had to have the dog put down because he had a brain tumour...as I say, it's been quite a few months!

I have been studying abstract painting particularly hard, especially my favourites: Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton. Their way of turning an experience into a dramatic expression in paint on canvas, or charcoal on paper, has inspired me recently.

Journeys have been on my mind a lot while I have been in the studio lately. The journey from home to hospital and back again every day with my dad, while mum was recuperating at Addenbrookes was the first journey I tried to abstract.

Love and Anger, Oil and charcoal, 2012

This painting took me months and months of overpainting, trying to work with different techniques, using brushes and knives, and drawing with charcoal over and in the paint. I had given up at one point. I had lost any idea of the journey and thought I'd ruined the painting. Then I took out a drawing I had done during one of my son's "meltdowns" (his word) and worked it over the top of the painting.

Another recent work has developed from a number of sources: my weekly journeys both to the studio and to pick up my children each weekend, sketches made at a local fishing harbour, some drawn while contemplating my new diagnoses of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and research into the cell structure of brain tumours.

November Painting, Oil and charcoal, 2012

I have also been very excited for the past couple of months, since I was informed that I was one of the artists to be chosen for the 100 Curators 100 Days project on Saatchi Online. I have checking every day, but have not appeared so far (although I have my suspicions as to which curator has chosen me, and I think that I may be appearing this week) ...so keep a look out!