Hellooooooo and a fiddley diddley deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I'm feeling right perky today due to a big rush of doings. T'is a very many splendid "thang" as Harry Seacombe used to sing. I put it down to there being a big yellow object in the sky today...such a bleedin' rare occurance this summer to be sure.

I've finally finished "Puck Summoning the Fog"....he, "Banquos Ghost" and "Cloud Angel" are now residing in a wondrous new venue in Glasgow called High Street Gallery. Hurrah! It is resided over by my fabulous mentor and chum...David Johnston...formerly of Park Gallery. Good luck David and a big thank you for all your support. The Merchant City Arts festival is also in full swing and if you take to wandering the streets you could well cop a look at some of my work...Hurrah again! A big thank you to Drew and Ian at Virginia Gallery for sorting it all out...they're also running an exhibition alongside the festival event. Go in and have a wee gander...I'm sure you'll enjoy.

Alongside all of the above...I've been  contacted by a gallery in Jersey wanting to display my wares...yet another hurrah!
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I'm dead excited about this and am cuurrently getting some stuff together to ship over. I'm going global! Hurrah and hurrah!

I've just finished drawing out the next painting...it's going to be Ophelia going bonkers and chucking her rosemary about. There will be a big tempest looming in the background just to add to the drama. Well...I hope it'll be dramamtic...no point in doing Shakespeare if you can't bung in a mad bint and some drama.....I shall keep you posted as to how it's progressing. Right....off to create "the art"....

Thank you for taking the time...

Ivor x

Bon morrow bon morrow bon morrow!

T'is me again...I did say I would start blogging at an alarming rate...and for me...this is an alarming rate. Coooo lummey, I've been painting the live long morn! Thought I'd have a wee break and impart some information on yous lot.
I am about to be displayed around Glasgow on some poster type doings....ooooer. It's all part of the Glasgow festival thingy that kicks off on 26th July. Apparently..art work from many fabulous artists will be on display all over the shop for all the world to see....how wondrous I hear you cry. There'll also be a wee exhibition on display at the Virginia Gallery, 45 Virginia Street,  Merchant City, Glasgow, G1 1TS...it's entitled "Who's for the Game" The preview is this coming Friday 20th July at 6:30pm.
I'll be exhibiting "Burlesque Noir" and "The Escapologist" oooooer.
Both events will run for most of August...hurrah!

Thank you for taking the time...

Ivor x

Howdy doooooody my chums!

I know...I know...I know...it's been bleedin' ages since my last blog. Mind...I do have a good excuse...I'm having the house ripped apart and a new studio installed in the loft space. My opening has been opened and a wondrous space has been created at the top of my abode...hurrah and hurrah and a big fat thankyou to Shaun the builder for making me a place to paint in peace....
I have also come to an executive decision and...I am unanimous in this....I'm now going to blog more often and with more aplomb....always loved that word...have no idea if it's the right one but who the flop cares. Anyrode up..I digress. I am now going to treat you lovely readers to short snippets of my existance and what is occurring in my artistic bent oooer. Here goes........................
I have finally finished painting "Banquos Ghost" and it was a challenge to be sure. Mmmm...had a bleedin' nightmare trying to create a ghost out of rock...hopefully it works and the image looks suitably spooky. I wanted to create a painting full of regret and guilt...I think it has achieved a look of contemplation...I'm told it has. The painting has created a lorry load of interest....infact...I've gone global! A very very talented writer in France has fallen in love with MacBeth...along with a very very talented sexual health clinician in Scotland...oooooer...I'm well excited!
I've commenced "Puck summoning the Fog". Mmmmm...it's taken me eons and eons of staring at this image to know how I want to move forward with it. I've decided that I'm going to create the "fog" in a different way...in other words...not as fog at all...ho hum. Bare with me as the woman in labour said to the midwife...Puck will be summoning the fog but it won't be misty literal fog but a more organic fog. I apologise for all of this arty farty nonsense but it has been a week of builders and their dust...it's quite difficult to create "the art" whilst a burly builder is waving his tool at you...................

I thank you for taking the time...

Ivor x