Getting ready

Nearly all set now, just have the final layout to check, 35 paintings in all which is great, including the latest one which I just fitted the frame on, from Lion Framing in Birmingham. Infact all the aluminium frames used were ordered from Lion Framing, they are a really good supplier and quick too!

Business cards arrived, and two A3 posters dropped off at Fisherton Mill.

Some press coverage too which is good, in the Dorset Life magazine. , Devon Life mag. , Great British Life magazine. and The Wiltshire Magazine.

Those very nice people at the Hampshire Chronicle have put a piece in the what's on arts section in today's weekly newspaper. Thanks to Saskia for sending out the super press release! I can't find it on their website, but it is in the 3 copies of the newspaper that I bought (honest).

My First Exhibition is at the Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury

Exhibition of work by

John Mobley

6th August -- 4th Sept 2010

Fisherton Mill Gallery,

Salisbury SP2 7QY

Pieces on show created 1969-2010. Early paintings use a mix of media, including household gloss, emulsion, acrylic, varnish and diverse substances such as polycell, starch, bleach, and tin foil. Small details made from collage are partly concealed. Later work also makes use of oil, quick setting glues, and for texture petals, grass cuttings and filler. Finishes range from varnish to heavy sanding. Some works convey the energy of electric guitar at volume and some make use of newspaper/magazine photographs of a few of the “heroes” of the time including Frank Zappa and John Peel. More recent work draws on influences from modern jazz and experimental/improvisational music from artists such as Portico Quartet and Nils Petter Molvaer.

All done except the frame

I finished this one today, all bar the frame, which will be aluminium. I settled for just one piece of collage in the end, but have now got very keen on doing a mainly collage piece next.

Not sure if I will have room for this one at the exhibition, but I would like to show it, may need to remove a couple of smaller ones to fit it in.