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On the easel today …
Progress in the preparatory sketch so far. Sometimes you just slap the paint and ink on and see where you go… …and again after another hours work – this is just the A3 size experiment stage, its going to be a 60×60 canvas after this. I think this one is done now.
Why talk of the Renaissance can invoke instant slumber in me.
I’m not sure why we had gone to London that day, it was Miss Harlow’s A Level art group, me and Rick Thorpe and 15 or 20 girls on a bus, or was it a train, the memory grows thin and faded, like trying to view way into the distance on a misty day, looking [...]
Tha Clerb
There are some who think that the peak time Saturday evening viewing TV programme “Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club” was a parody of the northern working mans scene in the 1970s. However, for it to have been a parody it would have had to ridicule the scenario in your average working mans club of a [...]
Video Saturday – Ronnie Lane and 1974, ah yes my friends, it was a very good year…
Ah 1974, why do I love thee so ? Flares, patterned shirts, cuban heel and platform shoes, hair, anyone remember hair, Ronnie Lane and his band Slim Chance on the road with Gallagher & Lyle, inviting ourselves to the bands after show party at Leeds Poly… Me in what might be called a “gap year” [...]
Her Majesty has commanded me to inform you…
You see I’ve always enjoyed LS Lowry’s work and away from the most popular of his works, the stuff you see in Ikea and on chocolate box lids, the best of his work is in the museum dedicated to him at The Lowry Centre in Salford, particularly the dull old paintings done on old scraps of brown [...]
Grumpy Old Man – Petrol Stations, or are they ?
Last night I ventured into Headingley for a pre-arranged rendezvous with my former travelling companion Richard to reminisce about old times and collect a batch of sketches that we did on our travels 32 years ago – these drawings now represent the second oldest artwork of mine that I own, the oldest being a trademark cartoon [...]
Just the once, I disco danced…
I disco danced once. The thought returns at frequent intervals to haunt my sleeping hours and yet those nightmare awakenings sitting bolt upright in the 3am darkness, babbling and shouting obscenities incoherently can never actually match the reality of … The married couples first dance. The Churchill Hotel, September 17th 1983, 7pm, the lights dim, [...]
Disco Dancing, why I and it do not get along
Disco dancing Why do I loath thee so ? I have a motto which lends a little to a disco song that has led (so far) to a fulfilling life, “don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t dance, I’m gonna live forever”. Ok, so I now partake of alcohol from time to time again, man cannot live [...]
Quite a little tycoon I was…
“I’m not quite sure about this you know…” my mother had her doubts, I could tell, you could tell by that worried look on her face, she had her doubts. “Not quite sure about what ?” my father didn’t have much patience with my mother, to be fair he did have a point, she was [...]
Quality Fruit & Veg is so hard to find these days…
You know, its at times like this that I like nothing better than to sit back in a favourite armchair, turn on some relaxing music, the sort that you can buy in Garden Centres, those ones where you press a button to listen to birdsong, or dolphins, or The Sounds of the Ocean, those ones, [...]
