Bonjour bonjour bonjour!
I'm speaking French due to the fact that I'm going to be a grand dad and my future daughter in law is french ooooo la la. Just wanted to post this because it's splendid news and everyone is jolly jolly jolly about it so hurrah and hurrah!
I've been quite a busy geezer really. The Bespoke Art Gallery Pop Up exhibition at House For An Art Lover was a humongous success. Well done Julie, Mark and David for all the bleedin' blood sweat and tears they put into it. I flogged a painting so am doubly grateful to them. "No Access" sold to a very nice couple from Kilmarnock. A big thank you to them for liking it enough to buy it....cheers boys! The only sad thing about it was the model Chris never got to see the finished piece before it was whisked away...apologies Chris...but the boys say you can go and have a gander at it whenever you want.
I've been painting a self portrait....ooooer....it was a very very odd thing to paint. I'm still 25 years old in my bonce but having studied my own face for a painting has well buggered up that fantasy....hey hooo....it looks like there's to be more vaseline in use in my house oooer. The bloody mirrors are already smeared to within an inch of their lives. I finally got it finished and was convinced I'd painted my father....mmm....ho hum....suppose it has managed to confirm to me that age comes to all of us. I've titled it "Vanishing" as I'm fading into the surroundings. I have this theory that the older you get the more invisible you become. It's been a very therapeutic project if I'm honest and has inspired a new series of paintings about facing demons and other life changing events. I'm quite interested in how this series pans out as I'm working the paintings in a different way. They're sort of evolving after long discussions with the models. It'll probably been the least commercial work I've done since the "Self Harming" series.....oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo er.
I've now got a body of work at JAG Gallery in Brighton...courtesy of Chris Campen of "Campen Creatives. Thanks Chris for all your support and promotion. I'm so happy to have some paintings in the very south of the Country as I originate from Pompey....it's a bit like going home ho hum. If any of yous are in the vacinity...pop along and have a wee gander. Chris is a lovely bloke so you can have a wee blether to him whilst you're there.
I'm also displaying my wares....ooooooer....at Admirable Antiques in New Abbey Dumfrieshire. It's a beautiful place and has a bloody fantastic tea room next to the ruins of Sweat Heart Abbey...which is gaaaaaaaawjussssssssss and sells cake and cake more cake....yum yum. Now that's worthy of vist peeps.
Thank you for taking the time...
Ivor x
