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Sound Of Mull
It has been a busy and productive week in the studio at Norton Conyers; several paintings have been started and several more have come to completion. The largest of these is the…
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Students’ Work
Great advances and some fine work by my students at Norton Conyers Studio this week; here’s a random selection. Well done everybody.
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Winter At The Studio, Norton Conyers
The sweet smell of woodsmoke from my studio woodburner drifts over the North Lawn at Norton Conyers as winter begins to bite. Walter’s horses, shrouded in horse blankets by day, are now stabled at…
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Exhibition Invitation
If you’re reading this you are invited to:
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Teaching again
The first students of the winter term arrived yesterday morning. It was nice to get back into teaching again though I have to remind myself every time that I DO enjoy it…
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Classes
Classes will begin again on Wed 9th November. More info to follow as I’m away in Scotland until Wed.
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Installing the Woodburner
Perfectly timed for the recent drop in temperature (can’t have a chilly artist), Dougie and Paul arrived to install the woodburner into the studio on Monday. It is important that we have…
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Butterflies
Despite The Guardian stating today that butterflies numbers are substantially down this year, the garden at Norton Conyers is still a’flutter with them. I only saw three species when I was there yesterday…
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Student visit
I very much enjoyed having a group of sixth form students from Skipton GHS into the studio on Tues. I did a demonstration about beginning a painting; I hope it was informative…
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Fountains Abbey (In the Footsteps of Turner)
I’ve been working on the ‘In The Footsteps Of Turner’ exhibition . This study is of the World Heritage site Fountains Abbey which I have painted many times. Turner sketched and painted…
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Hebden Bridge
There’s a tendency to avoid people who are going through a difficult time “I’m sure she won’t want to be bothered with us” and when a town gets battered by some near…
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