Bonjourno bonjourno bonjourno...

Just a wee brief quickie...ooooer. Up to my eyes in packing for next Tuesdays flit...off to a new abode. All very exciting but a piggin' nightmare to organise when one has exhibitions looming. Ho hum.

Just wanted to upload a pic of the painting that I'm showing at the "House for an Art Lover" exhibition on Sunday...15th April-17th April. I'll have three paintings there as part of the show. It'll be full of amazing paintings by shed loads of Scotlands foremost artists...oooooer. Please pop along and have a gander....I asure you it won't dissappoint.

Thank you for taking the time,

Ivor x

Well bonjourno my special chums,

I trust we're all well and life is being kind....?

I have been a very busy old artist these past weeks...am well knackered. The exhibition continues at the Virginia Gallery until 21st April...the launch was a brill affair as I got to meet lots and lots of fellow artists from all over Glasgow. I even sold a painting to a lovely lady from Oban...thanks Sarah, I know he's going to a good home. Please pop along and have a gander if you're in the area...I'd be very appreciative. It'll also give everyone a chance to see where the internal workings of my mind have been taking me over the past few years...ho hum. I seem to have become obsessed with birds and wings recently....ooooer....perhaps an ornithologists has possessed my body...blimey, I may end up looking like Bill Oddy.......

I'm just doing the finishing tweaks on the lastest painting....it's called "The Goshawk and the Blue Tit...mmmm...it's that Bill Oddy geezer again. It's based on the "Child Ballad" stories and depicts a maiden who is trying to escape the amorous advances of a blacksmith. In her attempt to get away she shape-shifts into a blue tit...to continue the chase, he morphs into a goshawk. All very romantic no less.......

The painting is for a three day exhibition being held at the gorgeous "House for an Art Lover" in Glasgow. It's a beautiful venue...Rene Mackintosh...all arts and craft and gorgeousness. The lovely Julie Waddington of Bespoke Art Gallery is arranging the event with a shed load of assistance from fellow artist and all round good egg Mark Getty. I'm putting in three paintings...two of which are new paintings...the one mentioned above and "The Lost Princess" oooer. Told you I have been busy busy busy.

On top of it all...I'm moving house so am surrounded by boxes...some of which I really should fill. It's a piggin' pain having sooooo much stuff. I'm also about to commence work on a painting for the forthcoming exhibition entitled "Queen"....it's to commemorate the jubilleeeeeeeee....how marvelously patriotic to be sure. I'm giving up the birds and wings for this one...I shall endeavour to do something regal but with a twist....mmmmm....here's hoping I can pull it off...oh and do the painting at the same time boom boom.

Right....off to fill a box...as the actress said to the bishop.

Thankyou for taking the time,

Ivor x