Lingfield Point Art Project & The Festival of Thrift

I've been working on a 3 month artist residency at Lingfield Point, Darlington supported by Navigator North.
 

I was asked to do an exhibition at The Festival of Thrift which is on 21st & 22nd of September at Lingfield Point where I will be exhibiting paintings but also show the work that I've been working on as part of the artist residency project.

This is my studio at Lingfield Point.

A photo taken through the studio door window of me talking to Vicky from Navigator North.

Me with some of the finished paintings to be shown in the exhibition at the
Festival of Thrift in September.

More paintings.

The 3 month residency project is called The Beehive Ballroom.
I have a blog about the project which you can find
HERE

The exhibition will be in the 'Studios' building on Lingfield Point & I will also be doing a talk about my work on the Saturday at 3pm!

Don't forget the exhibition will take place at the 

Festival of Thrift at Lingfield Point 

on Saturday 21st of September & Sunday 22nd of September.

Art London

If you are near Royal Hospital Chelsea in London pop in and see my new collection of work which is being exhibited with Heartbreak Gallery at the art fair Art London.

This new series of work carries on my love of pulp or low brow imagery that is re-imagined using a pop art sensibility.

All the figurative imagery (the women and men that appear) have been taken from original photographs in 40s and 50s pulp detective magazines, they have then been ‘tweaked’ and then reworked into imaginary pulp novels with myself as their fictional author.

These small pocket book novels are then oversized to grandiose proportions and paint is applied liberally allowing me to focus on areas that please me and smudging and blurring others with a heightened use of colour. The titles and logos are treated in this same manner which creates a tension between the image and the text imposed upon it.

The collection can be viewed on my website here

Mixed Show Exhibiton

I have some paintings in a mixed show exhibiton at the

GGGallery London.

The show finishes on the 18th September.

Other artists in the exhibition include

Kristian von Horn$leth & Adrian Wilson.

Visit the GGGallery website for more information.

Last few days

It's the last few remaining days of my solo exhibition in London!
So if you haven't been to see it yet, head on over to the GGGallery in Notting Hill!

Visit the GGGallery here

Modern Memorabilia Opening Night

It's about time I talked about the exhibition opening night isn't it?

It was a really great night & despite the rain a huge amount of people came, so thank you to everyone who came.

The gallery did a fantastic job & I even had my own cocktail named after me too which was electric blue and very potent, see above!

It was great to see that the painting hung so well together & I had a good time meeting & chatting to so many people too!

The gallery itself was incredibly busy all night so photo taking was slightly difficult but my wife Alison, managed to take a number of photos throughout the night so I thought I would post a few of them here.

Jimena & Kat at the gallery had predicted the weather too & had erected an awning outside the front of the gallery so that people could stand outside without fear of getting soaked by the rain!!!

There was even a singer & guitarist to entertain everyone for part of the evening!!!

It was a really great night & I met so many people & received such wonderful feedback from everyone, so thank you again to everyone who came & a special thank you to the GGGallery for a fantastic night!

If you couldn't make it to the preview night I have added the entire collection of work to my website which you can view HERE

The exhibition is on until July 22nd so there is plenty of time to visit the gallery to view the work if you are in the London area.

Visit the GGGallery's website HERE for more information.

Exhibition Night - Tomorrow!

 Modern Memorabilia
my solo exhibition in London starts tomorrow!

The preview night is tomorrow night at the gallery from 7pm.

The exhibition will run until July 22nd so I hope some of you will be able to make it to

GGGallery in Notting Hill to view it.

 

Modern Memorabilia - Solo Exhibition in London

Gent (Through the Looking Glass)

40" x 30"

Next week sees the opening night of a solo exhibition of my work in London.

The exhibition is called Modern Memorabilia & is being held at the

GGGallery in Notting Hill.

The exhibition will run from the

16th June until July 22nd.

The opening night is on Thursday 16th June at 7pm.

If you are in the London area & would like to visit the exhibition you can find out more information by visiting the GGGallery's website here

If you would like to come along to the opening night, I will be there to chat about my work & you can contact the gallery & RSVP by e-mailing info@gggallery.co.uk

The work being exhibited will be added to my portfolio next week & which you will be available to see on my website.

Hope to see some of there in London next week ...