Archive | November 2011
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The Royalty
Acrylic on canvas textured heavyweight paper, 30cmx21cm The Royalty, Otley Chevin, currently another victim of these pub recession times
Sunday Larf – Count Arthur Strong
Time for some more Count Arthur, this time in his stage tribute to the music hall and his wonderful ventriloquist act.
Video Saturday – Quadrophenia
Great film bettered by its sound track. The Who’s Quadrophenia album was lent to me by some classmate at school, Dave Hay it might have been, and transferred to a C90 cassette pretty damn quickly. It became the soundtrack to the whole of my 1st year Sixth, the first of two years in which we [...]
The Supply Chain At Bronte Hall
It wasn’t so much the problem that she had a streak of kleptomania, it was more that our mother worked for a local council institution and so the stuff that she “liberated” from her employer was of local council institutional quality, in other words, rubbish. In her normal life our mother was as honest as [...]
Radio Phone-in’s
The great thing about local radio is that anyone can have a go. National radio stations seem to have a semblance of order, a standard to keep up, they appear to vet all of the callers into their radio programmes so that there are no surprises, no nutters ringing up at 10am in the morning, [...]
Looking Across Buttermere
Acrylic on canvas 16.5″ x 11.7″ (A3 size) Available to purchase on Artgallery.co.uk
The Marathon, an appreciation
“I look forward to reading your full marathon race report.” so stated the spam comment caught up in the excellent WordPress spam filter. How wrong can a spammer get, just how far wide of the mark is it to make a random post that you hope will slip under the radar and sit on someone [...]
Another Washday
Never tire of doing this sort of scene, another “Washday” painting, acrylic on heavy canvas texture paper, sized at A4 (210mmx300mm) for easy framing and should really be subtitled “After Peter Brooks” as its more than inspired by his most excellent Pennine work. This painting is now sold, similar commissions can be undertaken, please email [...]
