Good evening my chums,

I apologise for the lateness of the hour...also...I apologise for any spelling mistakes cos it is so late.

Well what can I say? T'is been a whirlwind doings of epic proportions. I've been steadily painting some new pieces and finishing others. The "Dragons Kiss" is now finished...it was the last in the "Elementals" series of paintings. It's probably the most sensual painting of the series. I must admit she's looking a tad dishevelled and a little "emotional"...mind...who wouldn't with a bloke that's part dragon breathing all over you. It was quite difficult trying to bring in the "fire" to this series. All the dragon shape-shifters were men...and nearly all of those were transformed as part of a spell. This image is the only one of the "Elementals" whose story comes mainly from my imagination. Mmmmmm...how telling is that?

I've also been working on some nudes...reckon I'm doing this due to my own sad carcass being on a tobogan ride to sagging wrinkleness. Perhaps painting better forms will exorcise the ghosts of desperation at hitting middle age. Mmmm...I do admit to it being a very therapeutic exercise and I'm now less inclined to scream when I remove clothing. Ho hum. Plus...I'd forgotten what a challenge it is painting shed loads of bare flesh. Where these particualar paintings will end up is a concurrent countdown conundrum...but...I have fingers in many doodahs and irons in many fires...oooooer, I say no more.
My new best friend Joe Hendry and me have been in dialogue...I sound dead Alan Sugar. We're considering doing some stuff together in a rather groovy new place in Glasgow...I won't say owt else now as it's still in the early planning stage. I'm dead excited...I'm skipping as I type. Thanks Joe for keeping the faith my chum.

I'm still displaying stuff at "Christo's " Gallery in the West End of Glasgow and my stuff is also adorning the walls at "Art Bar" in Brunswick Road Glasgow. Please feel free to go along and have a gander...and...if you feel inclined purchase a pice of "Art"

http://www.christosgallery.com/

http://www.artbarglasgow.com/

I was at the circus the other evening and it was quite an experience. It wasn't immpressive at all...infact it all seemed a tad jaded and slightly sad. I do admire the troop continuing on despite dwindling audiences and constant protests from animal rights bods. "Why are you telling us this?" I hear you ask. Mmmmm...well, along with this circus experience and the stuff I've been reading on "Burlesque" theatre, I feel a new set of paintings forming in my bonce. Have no idea how it'll pan out or even how I'll approach it...but I know something will emerge from it all. A right "circus of burlesque". I will keep you posted...mind it'll have to wait a bit as I've got some commissions to do. Ho hum.

Finally...can I make a huge apology. Apparently a spam dooooings has got hold of my email address book and keeps sending people stuff for viagara. Please accept my sincere apology...I am endeavouring to sort it out.

Thank you for taking the time,

Ivor x

Helloooooo peeps,

T'is I and I'm finally calm from all the recent drama and upheaval.
Plus....I have news....ooooooooooooooooooooer.

Firstly I would like to take the time to say a big fat thank you to David from Park Gallery. Sadly his beloved business is no more....yet another statistic of this horrible economic melt down. I just want every one out there to know what a huge support he was to me over the past year. It was a pleasure doing business with you my friend, us artists have lost a good chum and I've lost somewhere really fun to lurk whilst I'm in Glsagow. Pecker up fella....I'm sure you'll bounce back with even more enthusiasm and, as our American chums say, spunk.

The "Elementals" series of paintings have now been split up and can be seen at two venues. Hurrah!

I am now showing some work at "Christo's" gallery on the Great Western Road...the West End of Glasgow no less. I don't know about you lot but I'm dead impressed. Thank you Louise for taking some of my work...I'm sure it's just the beginning of a beautiful relationship. "Christo's" is a lovely gallery and well worth nipping along to...not just to have a gander at my new stuff though I'd be really chuffed if you would...but because it has a dead friendly atmos and Louise is so welcoming.

http://www.christosgallery.com/

I am also showing at "Art Bar" in Brunswick Street...oooooer yet again...in the Merchant City of Glasgow no less. The really lovely, talented and all round good egg Joe Hendry contacted me and, Bob's yer uncle, I was in. Joe is organising the gallery and getting together some very talented and established artists to show at the venue. It is all very exciting...I've been skipping now for days which isn't good for some one of my great age and with a dodgy hip to boot.......I reckon it'll be a dead dead hip and happenin' laid back and groovy place to exhibit...I can't wait...I think I'll skip some more......

Cheers Joe...you're a star!

Joe and I attended the most fantastic and fabulous "Glasgow Boys" exhibition at the Kelvingrove. I recommend any one who is in Glasgow to go along and see it, it is so bleedin' worth it.
I came away with really mixed emotions. The first was "I'm so unworthy, I really must hang my brush in shame" The second was "where's me board and brush...I need to create!" They were truely great painters...it's a sort of spiritual experience being in the same room as those paintings. I was sooooo humbled. Blimey...I've gone all misty eyed. Mind...it's definitely put me well and truely back on track to start a new series of paintings. I know one that I feel the need to do...it's of the "Green Man"....the geezer who hung about in oak trees in the days of yore. Have no idea as to how it'll develop...but...hey ho...that's part of the fun.

Thank you for taking the time,

Ivor x

Hello my loyal chums,

T'is with great sadness that I write today so please bare with me.

My exhibition of "The Elementals" has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. Hopefully I will be able to find another venue soon so that this collection can be viewed.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to David at Park Gallery for all his support and help over the past year. It is a huge loss to the Art world and especially me, that his beloved gallery has had to close.
I'd also like to say thank you to Rachel his glamorous assistant.

You will be so missed my chums.

Thank you for taking the time,

Ivor x

Bon morrow my cold damp chums....

T'is supposed to be lovely Spring like weather with gamboling lambs and the budding of fruitfulness and promise...mmmmm...it's about as promising as a damp dishcloth on the draining board of life. Ho Hum.
T'is just as well that I have been locked away like a balding Rapunzel in my studio tower. Me and the weather are as strangers, infact me and the real world are now just passing aquaintances. I've been painting and painting and painting.......................

I am please to say that I am now working on the last piece for the forthcoming "Elementals" exhibition. It's called "Dragons Kiss" ooooer. It's a vague reference to a shape shifting dragon...which, incidentally, there were rather few of. All were blokes to...and all seemed to be shape shifted as a form of punishment or because some other bloke got a bit miffed with them. Enough said...
The paintings seem to have taken on a life of their own and I'm not too sure if they controlled me or I them. I know that sounds like a lorry load of pretentious doodahs...but they have been the most "organic" paintings I have done. It's been quite a challenge to create enough "shape shifting" to inform and still maitain a mood and narative that the viewer can unfold. Hey ho...it's now too late to have all the usual doubts about them as the preview is now less than two weeks away....oooooo...bloody...er.

On 27th May 2010 between the times of 6:00pm and 8:30pm at Park Gallery in Polakshaws Road they will be on show to the world. The past 5/6 months of my life will be there for all to peek at... read about... judge... praise (hopefully)... buy (most certainly)... and enjoy (fingers crossed)
All I can say is please "be kind to my mistakes"

If you have an uncontrollable urge to find out more please feel free to contact David at Park Gallery....he's a most obliging soul and, I have to say, a most patient one...he'd have to be to represent me.....cheers David.

Thank you for taking the time...

Ivor x

www.ivorsexton.co.uk

www.parkgallery.net

Bon morrow and forsooth,

Howdy doooooooody to you my chums, I completely knackered and am fast becoming a shadow of my former self. Mind, this only applies to my emotional state and not the physical as that is expanding so fast I could do a convincing "lookie likie" of John Prescott. Mmmmm....I wonder if there are any school fetes or local supermarkets need opening by a former Deputy P.M.?

The new paintings are going swimmingly well and will soon be ready for public display. It's been a strange old road that I have travelled doing these...I keep floating off into clouds of fantasy trying to imagine what it would be like if one could actually "shape shift". I know I'd most certainly shift this big belly, I'd probably give it to poor and needy. I reckon it's been a kind of cathartic experience painting this series. I've hurtled so bleedin' fast towards the dreaded "middle age" that I've lost my grip on reality....ooooer. I keep looking in the mirror through the hazy smear of vaseline and I don't remember getting to look like that. Ho hum...I think that we would all like to change the way we look in one way or another, it's just that in the old days of the "shape shifter" it was just easier to do. Blimey...."how deep" I hear you cry...but t'is true and I'm sure that I will soon be very accepting of my wrinkles and pot belly....yeah and Katie Price will become a media recluse and Gordon Brown a centre fold for "Play Girl".
If you look back to the days of yore shed loads of strange going ons were put down to "shape shifters"....prime example was the Werewolf, it was far easier for people to believe that such horrendous acts were carried out by a beast than a man. Ho hum...infact...in those days people were constantly changing from one thing into another, the only difference these days is we now use cosmetic surgeons......................mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Verily I say unto you...I reckon I'd much rather have the belief that I could change into anything that I wanted to than go under a knife to achieve it.

"The old days are lost.......and I wondered why?"

Ooooooer....got a tad "deep and meaningful" there...it seems to have past now and I am once again calm. I do apologise, it's so unlike me to be that thoughtful about anything....I used to be able to rely on being witty and ornamental..........

The launch of this series of paintings is on 27th May 2010. It at Park Gallery, 697 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB between 6:00pm-8:30pm and will run for two and half weeks.
Please please please go along and have a gander as I would be internally grateful. I'll also be bodding about at the lauch to have a chin wag with peeps...you can get to see how my shape has shifted ha ha he he.

Thank you for taking the time,

Ivor x

www.ivorsexton.co.uk

www.parkgallery.net

Bon morrow to you all....

T'is Spring and my sap is a rising and I'm feeling perkier than a perky person on the Pinky and Perky show...

Where to start?
Well it's now six week this coming Thursday until my exhibition at Park Gallery Glasgow. It's been a frenzy on activity in my studio I can tell you...my arm is aching and my eyesight is failing. I am now eating, sleeping and dreaming "exhibition". I'm a nightmare to live with and I'm fast on my way to resembling a "Terrorhawk" puppet. By the time the launch happens I'll be a shadow of my former self...people will go from looking at the "gaaaaaawwwwjusssss art ambiance" to a wizened old hobbit in the corner, verily t'is a pooh. Having said all that...............

The new pieces are progressing along rather nicely...I'm truely enjoying creating these images. I seem to be alot more "organic" with the process of painting the "shape shifters"...which is rather apt when you think about it. I'm calling this batch the "Elementals"....mmmmmm...."why?" I hear you cry. I wanted to create some pieces that were not only about change but were part of nature as well. I know it all sounds a tad "artistic" but I reckon that when they're viewed all will become clear. Well, I'm hoping it does or I'll look a total pillock. I think that David from the gallery is a tad anxious...the poor man hasn't seen any of the paintings yet and is trusting to fate at the minute. Courage mon brave...all will be well and, if not, there's always the option to beat me over the head with the frames.......................Hey ho, it's a knife edge existance being creative.
I've learnt shed loads of stuff doing this series...I've been researching "shape shifting" for weeks now and never realised just how universal the concept was. I'm trying to bring the notion bang up to date........mind, I suppose the new culture of endless cosmetic surgery has already done that....look at Katie Price, her knockers have "shape shifted" more times than a werewolf at the fullness of the moon.

Oh well..back to the confines of my studio ambiance, the paintbrush awaits....

Thank you for taking the time....

Ivor x

www.ivorsexton.co.uk

www.parkgallery.net

Bon morrow bon morrow bon morrow,

How are you all my special chums? It is blogging time once more and I'm feeling perkier than a perky person on a perky bus. Spring seems to have arrived finally and it has put a smile on my face.

I've been very busy of late and have managed to sell quite a few paintings. The small "Fairy Tale" series have all been sold. I followed the "Snow Queen" with the "Match Girl" and "Snow White". They were a bit of a seasonal offering and represented the four seasons of the year...hence them being a "seasonal" offering. I know I'm rambling but you'll have to bare with me as I'm practically chained to my artist chair these days and have lost the ability to communicate unless it is through the medium of "the art".....ooooooer. I'm am considering having my paintbrush surgically attached to my hand to cut out the time I have to pick it up upon waking in the morn.
Did I say that "Heathcliff" has gone to a new home?...he is now looking suitably angst upon some ones wall. "Last Days of Summer" has also been given a new abode....I'm really chuffed about that as I so wanted him to go to a good place. Thank you to all my patrons for wanting my images to enhance their establishmnets....I am deeply chuffed.
The prints are also selling quite well and I am now "global"....oooooer...Condaleeza eat your heart out. Apparently my angels are now flying all round Europe....details on how to grab yours are on the website....................

I am exhibiting a new set of paintings at Park Gallery, Glasgow at the end of May...27th to be precise. The concept of this new batch is still ruminating in my bonce. I can see shed loads of scenery...lots of gorgeous women and handsome blokes....people changing into animals, birds and trees....unrequited love....seasonal and symbolic flowers...and lashings of love.
Alongside all of this I will also be endeavouring to produce other images to be displayed in the gallery....I have a very enthusiastic gallery owner called David who's support knows no bounds....cheers David and cheers to Rachel too, his glamorous assistant.

I'm almost finished painting "Houdini and Rosabel"....it's all very unrequited, sensual and romantic. Here's hoping that the finished image lives up to my idea of how it should look. I am very very critical of my own stuff and have been known to go into critical meltdown when I've finished a piece. Thankfully it never lasts too long and my universal compassion and calm return...mind, it may take a smack round the head and some reassuring words...thank you Graham.

I feel the muse calling...thank you for taking the time,

Ivor x