follow.it gives you an easy way to subscribe to Makingamark's news feed! Click on Follow below and we deliver the updates you want via email, phone or you can read them here on the website on your own news page.
You can also unsubscribe anytime painlessly.
Title: MAKING A MARK
Apologies for this late review of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2026.
Post shoulder replacement sirgery, I'm still one...
It's now been three weeks since surgery ie HALF WAY through the official recovery period of sling wearing! Pain has reduced and arm mobility is getting better. My one hand one finger typing is also getting faster! I can manage a left hand index finger on the Shift Key!
Last week was a big week for me as I went out five times on my own:
Tuesday:...It feels a bit odd to think two weeks ago, I'd been awake for four hours after completely out for the count for five hours, due to my shoulder replacement surgery having a major hiccup.
Tomorrow I go to see my Consultant at the Royal London who is part of a Barts NHS Trust team which focuses solely on trauma, elective shoulder, elbow, and hand surgery. It's always...
Bottom line - it's a struggle but getting easier to cope with as the days go by. However immobilised on one side is no "walk in the park"!
pain under control, so long as I remember/take meds on time! (plus logged on my medication record on Apple Health - to avoid not remembering what I've taken. Surgery was co...A few updates following my visit to the afternoon session of the second heat of Portrait Artist of the Year 2026 at Battersea Arts Centre yesterday.
numbers at...