Last few days of the exhibition

I have to remove the four large paintings on Friday as that is the only day I can have use of the van.

The rest I will pack up on Saturday afternoon.

I might see if I can leave one or two small paintings in the shop area, if there is available space.

For example, this one, which I have just completed, is only 290x360mm, looks good with a bright silver alumium frame

Swapping some paintings with new ones

I decided to put these five new pieces in the exhibition as there is still a week and a half left.

There are some paintings that I will remove and others will move around to make more space, two of these are quite small so should have plenty of room.

The aluminium frame on this one is dark green gloss (almost black) and looks great.

Goodbye Mr . Pink

This is one of the new pieces I am taking to the exhibition for showing in the second two weeks up until 4th September.

This is on canvas and I'll leave the edge painted without a frame. I just got the aluminium frames delivered for the others.

Nobody like Mr. Pink so he has been laid to rest underneath this painting.

You can still make out the movement of the arms and legs, and some of him still appears where I have sanded down.

The original Mr Pink ...

OK fair enough!

New pieces

This one is just completed and I have ordered a dark green gloss aluminium frame for it.

Using collage a lot now, the 'fish' is from a large black and white photo of a tiger from the Independent.

Launch day 7th August

A fantastic day, some good ideas for new works and loads of inspiration. Thanks to everyone for the support, and good wishes.

We managed to get 40 pieces on show and 9 were sold that day, so I need to get busy again.

Just checking!

Set up time

Day two of the set up and we have finished. A few pieces moved around at last minute and an extra 5 works found space for, two at the foot of the stairs leading to the upstairs gallery space.

Many thanks to Steve for driving all the paintings over to Salisbury in his camper van and of course to Maz for two days hard slog lifting everything and adjusting everything endless number of times!