Hellooooooooooo!

Oh damn and blast...I've been so useless. It's been eons since I last wrote owt on here I'll be amazed if anyone reads this....ho hum.

Now then my chums I have no excuses and I have no no one to blame for my lack of scribing so please forgive and we'll start over....

I have had a fab exhibition at "Save the Children" in Stockbridge, Edinburgh...a big fat thank you to Barbara for letting me display my wares in her space...ooooer. You are a star! It all went swimmingly well and I actually sold a painting. It was "Romulus and Remus" and it went to a very lovely couple called Robbie and Freddy....thank you boys for all your support. Apart from this fantastic sale in these horrible cash strapped times...I had so much positive feedback that my cockles were well and truely warmed...so much so infact that I needed asbestos undercrackers...ho hum.

I was approched following the exhibition by a wonderful and very talented lady called Michelle Walker...please check out her work in "National Geographic" as it is stunning! She is considering opening a new gallery in Edinburgh early next year and has asked if I would like to be involved. I am dead chuffed and also very excited as I have so many ideas bubbling up in my bonce at the moment. I can also say that, after hearing this, my cockles got so warm they spontaneously combusted.......

I also met a lovely lady called Ruth who has connections with the art world...she's about to return to America...Miami Beach to be precise and reckons my work would go down rather well out there. Cooooo and lawks a lummey...I could go "Stateside"...now where did I put my thong, fake tan and Charles Atlas work out book?

I'm still plodding along with the "Water Ghosts" painting....blimey, I know I said it was "organic" and "growing" but I never reckoned on it being quite so bleedin' organic....it's a very slow process this one. It doesn't help that I have never worked on something as big and it's painful. Being a dwarf I find it quite a challenge to stretch that far over a painting without needing a truss at the end of the day....I don't think the stretching exercises have help much but I can now get my legs behind my head and open a can of coke at the same time. Not sure if this will enhance the painting any but I'm very popular in a crisis....ooooer.

Joshing aside...this painting is proving to be totally different from anything that I've done in eons...thankfully the model that I used for it is suitably impressed so that's ok. Thank you Chris...my flame haired temptress for being so supportive and patient.

I have finally finished the triptych..."The Lover, The Wife and The Husband"...it's just got to be framed up now. I am considering putting in to the forthcoming "Tease" exhibition that is taking place at the Virginia Gallery. The very talented Fiona Wilson is showing and has kindly asked me to contribute a painting....must say I'm so honoured...the woman is mega talented.

I've also began work on a series of paintings that will end up creating a huge painting...mmm...not sure if that makes any sense but, in my world, it does. It's going to be based on "The Last Supper". I know in my head how I want it...but...how it ends up is anyones guess...ho hum. I've got shed loads of peeps to agree to be used so there's a start. I'm wanting to go back to my "spiritual" roots....oooooer how very pretentious I hear you screech...not so...so ya boo sucks to it. I will reveal all at a later date and then you'll know what I'm banging on about...well here's hoping you do or I'm going to look very silly.........

Thank you for taking the time,

Ivor x