If you head over to the Cass Art blog, you’ll find an interview with me.
Sheep, Daisies and Seascape Cupcakes
Thank you to everyone who came to the official opening of my Edges Exhibition last night for your support and enthusiasm, conversation and comments. I greatly appreciate it. Thanks also to Skye Baking Co for the delicious catering, including assorted mini-breads and the cupcakes themed to my paintings — sheep, daisies, and seascapes.
My Edges Exhibition Poster
Not the Road to My Studio
I pondered doing an April Fool’s about this being a photo of the road to my studio…
For the record: when taking the photo my feet were securely on a stretch of single-track, tarred road.
Turner Painting Canaletto Painting Venice
This detail from a Turner oil painting of Venice, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1833 over a decade after Turner visited the city, shows Canaletto painting one of his magnificent views of Venice. As the wall label in Tate Britain (where I came across it) pointed out, Canaletto’s canvas on his easel is “already improbably framed”. This tiny detail in the painting, so easily overlooked, makes me smile every time. The rest of the painting doesn’t do much for me; I prefer Turner’s wilder pieces where he paints mostly the atmosphere and weather.
