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‘Literature’ – An exhibition of work by 14 artists and the books which influenced them. October 2022

I couldn’t help but do a shout out for my friend and neighbour Ruth. She is @forkful.food and I just got an email from her business account about the most delicious Valentines dinner for two! You can get it delivered for the weekend before Valentines or the week of and I have to say I drooled over every one of two choices of each of the three courses! It costs £100 for two people and it is delivered for free if you live in Wandsworth. This has got to be an extremely good option for those of us who would rather stick needles in our eyes than go to a restaurant for Valentines day. 😂

This is not one of my projects but I’d be immensely proud if it was. I’ve had an amazing day today with @spence1design visiting a major new project in Glen Eagles and I will be looking to pull together a proposal of Scottish artists, artisans and craftspeople in support of a beautiful @spence1design scheme. Please do DM me if you would like to recommend yourself as an artist or someone for this project. Does anyone know who did the interior here @thegleneagleshotel - it’s a masterclass in use of tonal colour and textures. Sadly the photo doesn’t do the nuances justice but there are several greens, the velvet sofa is a sumptuously delicious dark green with dark blue undertone and then the pink map as a wall piece, perfectly accented by lampshade is art placement perfection. Look how the marble table reflects the contouring in the map and the blue chinoiserie vases provide some freshness and texture and stop the scheme feeling too leaden. I absolutely love. What an amazing day.

Help wanted - please DM me if you can use photoshop and would like 6-10 hours work on photographic archive for an exhibition. This is a one off project but it may lead to more work in the future. All to be done remotely.

So I heard an excellent interview two days ago on @bbcradio4 that has absolutely made me furious, disheartened and well, completely disillusioned with yet another UK government politician. Our so called ‘environment minister’ @theresecoffey has unbelievably approved a completely deadly previously banned (and still banned in the EU) bee killing pesticide for emergency spraying on UK sugar beet fields. The interview was superb with Professor @dave.goulson summing up that ‘after 10 years of studying these chemicals the most succinct way I can describe them is as “Novichok for bees”. Well that got my attention. I am obviously sorry for the sugar beet farmers (ably supported by British Sugar who applied for the pesticide to be used on their behalf) that their crop is threatened by aphids but I just can’t see how anyone can remotely justify morally or ethically to use pesticides like this, ever, anywhere. The pesticide which is so dangerous it is not allowed to be used in fields in which plants are likely to bloom for THIRTY TWO MONTHS gets taken up into the roots of yes, flowering hedgerow species and runs off into rivers. I can’t help but think that Ms Coffey’s job title as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a poisoned (although not as poisoned as the one she has just released on our wildlife) chalice and there are several difficult and entirely conflicting choices she needs to make between some farming demands and the environment but I feel strongly she has absolutely made the wrong call here. This post is illustrated by a detail from an #annenoble photograph - one of a series of dead bee portraits she made to highlight the growing plight of bees globally. UPDATE: go to @surreywildlifetrust and @greenpeaceuk and sign both their forms on their posts about bees - they do slightly different things - takes seconds.

I started my journey into art through ceramics. I had a soft spot for them then and as my knowledge has grown I have an even greater weakness for them now. @oxfordceramicsgallery has a lovely show on at the moment showing three generations of Danish potters. I was taught by a very good ceramic gallerist (Matthew who was at Galerie Besson now Erksine Hall and Co) to pick work up, feel the weight, the density, to turn it, run your finger over the lip of the edge, to feel the glazes - to truly understand a work. And I can almost feel the weight of this work and feel the satisfying slightly grating clunk of the lid of this piece as it slips into its perfect place when you put it back on. I can imagine the joy and light that this piece would emit in any room, the solid confidence of something quietly and lovingly made containing a part of the soul of the person who made it. And how, oh how I would gaze at that glaze - like a orange or a lacquered box depending on a day. The perfect orange - not too yellow and yet not too brown. And so the hunt begins for an #ingerrokkjær pot of my own as this one has sold.

Absolutely touched and delighted with this big article in @townandcountymag. My first front page mention too 💃😂 A huge thanks to the editor there making it SO beautiful and for the fab @emmacarboni for placing it and writing it! I owe several clients a very nice lunch for their kindness in allowing me to use their images for talking about my business - I really am terribly grateful to you all. And I’m delighted that the editor picked some photos from both recent and older projects - I hope it demonstrates that good art, well hung looks still looks fresh and up to date even though we may have all cycled through several ‘paint colours of the year’ by then! 😂🙏 Link to the mag is in bio.

I was absolutely delighted to be asked to find the art for this WONDERFUL house that @rachaelhardinginteriors has designed. I knew the minute I saw this family dining room that is on one side open plan to a double height hall, that It was important to create a feeling of cosiness - an enclosed space carved off from the rest of the hall. i was delighted therefore when I spotted these @ddavidmprice paintings @frestoniangallery. By positioning a large one on one wall (effectively extending and echoing the view of the garden onto the adjacent wall) and mirroring this with four smaller works of his on the opposite wall, we created a sense of cohesion without making it feel claustrophobic or like an art gallery. I’m really proud of this one because it was so hard to do justice to Rachel’s brilliant scheme. But I think we did it. Thanks to David, Matt, Rollo and the fab installer who bravely hung these works on wallpaper that extends throughout half of the house (not one to get a hole in wrong! 😂)

A huge thanks to @hannah_payne_art and

One of the huge downsides of doing some tours of @londonartfair (last one today at midday on ‘ How to Start a Collection’) is that I keep seeing things I love. This gem of a painting on the fab @candida_stevens stand keeps winking at me and drawing me in. I stood in front of it with a client and we tried to work out what it is that I loved so much and she rather insightfully suggested I felt comforted - comforted by the palette, the picket fence (always conjures up feelings of romanticised life in friendly neighbourhoods -although why that is, is beyond me), the presence of a figure in the corner, perhaps even the promise of a country walk with a fire at the end of it. And then I wondered if I should post that this made me feel comforted - was that a good enough, kind enough thing to say about a painting. And the more I think about it, the more I think it’s a great thing to say about a painting. Not many things actually do manage to comfort me days and if I think about it the fact that this little painting in all the fair, with all its noise and people and other competing paintings managed to not only reach out to my eye but actually, truly made me feel happier and more, well at home really - well I think that’s quite something. Thanks to @ben_crawford_art for painting such a quiet salving beautiful thing.

I’ve become slightly obsessed with this drypoint over the last few days @gerrishfineart @londonartfair. The lines are so smooth, and wonky and absolutely not straight in relation to each other. There’s the shed, the fence at the front, the lamps down the side, the hills and the pylons at the back and they all look like they’ve been drawn from different perspectives and so shouldn’t all fit together. But they do. It’s weird. And then there are those circles. What are they? Why are they there? To fill the picture plane? But then why do they work? They appear to be just circles and yet my eye still reads them as being part of the landscape. Hmmm - maybe they are puddles? Or has Nicholson hidden some abstraction in plain sight! The more I look at this work the LESS I understand it and maybe that is the clue as to why I love it so much. This would be a lovely thing to live with - put it up in a quiet little spot and try and work out if you can unlock its mysteries. I’m not sure you ever would. Or at least I ever would. Maybe this is a drawing by an artist for an artist. But I’m not sure about that either! I’m deliciously confused! I’ve had a wonderful couple of days doing tours for London Art Fair and meeting some lovely people - I have one more tour to go - this Saturday at noon. Just turn up and meet by the tour sign at the entrance! It will be on ‘ How to Start a Collection’ but we’ll look at some fair gems too!

London Art Fair talk today @ 630pm on How to Start your Art Collection! It’s been fun sitting down and reminding myself how I started mine. Following your eye and your passions feature high up the list of course but you’ll need to turn up to the talk for the rest of the tips!

So I remember completely falling in love with one of @james_lloyd_artist paintings more years ago than I care to admit. That had a loo roll in it too I am fairly sure - I think on a shelf. So imagine my delight when scrolling through one of the previews for @londonartfair and I spotted that the fab @domobaal is showing this cracker. A subject so banal superficially. But then is it? I suspect not. Quite the reverse. A subject of enormous importance that has been overlooked! We all have them. We all (hopefully) use them. I mean, the house practically comes to a stand still when we run out! A cause of great stress and requires immediate downing of tools and an emergency run to the shops. And let’s not mention the great loo roll stockpile in 2020. And then once you’ve thought ‘Why have more people not painted more loo rolls’ you look at the actual painting of this one. And lordy - it’s a GEM. And the fact that It also looks like my favourite liquorice allsort - well it means I am smitten and I cannot wait to see it on the wall in real life tomorrow at the fair. Whoever buys this will be lucky indeed.

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