Natural History Museum – Iconic or Tacky? Museums and art galleries are the essential option for a tour of London. Especially when it’s raining! Our first stop is the Natural History Museum, a Victorian Edifice built to reflect its content, or is it an overkill of decoration. I’ve always admired the Victorian ethos that if […]
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Seeing the Millennium Dome for the first time besides the Thames you’d be forgiven for thinking it might be the part of some Alien invasion. Another millennium theme, the O2 Arena as it’s now called emerged to some controversy. Sometimes the idea for a painting comes as a concept before the image is decided. Others
Dreams are how things happen! The thought behind this painting of the London Eye was a curiousity about why it was there. Every construction starts with a vision. Be it big or small, an initial idea is needed to direct what becomes reality. To celebrate the year 2000 many monuments were planned and erected. Any
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Stairway to heaven There’s a lady who’s sure All that glitters is gold And she’s buying a stairway to heaven. Or so the Led Zeppelin song goes and kept on going in my head when I saw this staircase in the Victoria and Albert Museum one year. I said to my friend… “This is going
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And so I begin… A 30 day blog challenge! And knowing I would need 30 ideas, I decided to make them count. I want to write my next book about my London paintings, so I’ve decided to start with… A Painting tour of London in 30 days! By sharing a Statement a day or the
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A busy Saturday in Manchester. Passengers waiting for the tram. A moment in time held in the finished painting of the tramstop outside Manchester Central Library. Now for the tricky bit… Deciding what to call it! Waiting for a tram?Tram stop? For a long whilem “Catching a tram from the Library” was a working title
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