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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...It's a long time since I've posted, caused by a variety of things. There are three very good reasons why I'm being quiet at the moment.
I needed a break.I'm in agony with pain in my lumbar spine at the moment. I sort of know what it is (osteoarthritis attacks for the third time) but that doesn't make it any easier, especially when it translates ...
Every now and again I have a bit of a rant about one of my pet topics - media creep. This is one of them.
An art society is set up to serve a very particular group of artists - including specific media. Media Creep sets in as it the media eligible for use in a society exhibitions starts to become more broad and extended so that definitions of media become "m...
I think the 214th Annual Exhibition by the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours is probably the best RI exhibition I've seen by them at the Mall Galleries on two counts:
excellent artworkextremely well hung - it reads very well throughout both the West and East Galleries and most of the North Gallery.It also has the unique distinction of:a VERY colour...This is about a FREE Plein Air Painting Handout by Michael Chesley Johnson - a very experienced American plein air painter and instructor in oils and soft pastels of repute.
His CV is impressive - see below to check out the credentials of the chap who is provid...