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Poodle with a Pearl Earring - acrylic - about 12"square Surely you've all heard of the Poodle with a Pearl Earring ... very famous in the...

Autumn (chrysanthemum) AUTUMN is one of a series of four I painted in acrylic on metre-high canvases to illustrate the way in which the...

COMBINING POETRY AND PAINTING has become my latest project. Here is Mauver (= more mauve: yes, I make up words too). I made my own...

MEET THE ARCHER, just one of hundreds of life-sized clay figures reconstructed from fragments since the discovery of the Chinese Emperor...

MY CHOSEN PAINTING for today is Big Bucks , high in my affections because it will feature on the cover of my soon-to-be-released novel,...

is a CREATURE FEATURE , and the creature is SKITTLES . painting on tile Handmade plant pot ALL OF MY CRITTERS, with the exception of...

Remember the poem Pale Green in Blog #9? Here we have the poem presented as an art work. Nifty, non? It is at present on display at the...

GREETINGS, all you followers of the creative arts. For a special person, I will be featuring some wilder pieces to show that it can still...

Coal miners descending - mixed media OFF TO A DAY'S WORK, our coal miners are descending in the lift, accompanied by essential work...

Emperor Qin - The first emperor of China IT SEEMED A PITY to waste the big tough wrapping from my Fed-Ex parcel, so I used it to...

Greetings, readers. You were probably wondering if #9 was ever going to arrive, but I have a very exiting reason for the delay - I was...

Welcome to Blog #8. I'll have to stop promising paintings ahead of time. The photographic image of Late Spring was too poor to use, so...

Early Spring - watercolour on hot-press Today's painting is Early Spring , the full version of our Home screen background. Now you can...

The Evolution of Horses - acrylic on board There is a lot to explain in this painting, which depicts a cross-section through the earth,...

I WAS SURPRISED to discover that pit ponies were still being used at the Warkworth mine during my working lifetime. They spent a 5-day...

Greetings Dear Connoisseurs of the Arts (mine), Whee! Watercolour on hot-press This is the third duck commission, which I promised for...

Did I promise a new post every week? Well, that was unrealistic! I would have to live far belong the normal allocated span even for tough...

Greetings All, Thank you for joining me on My Blog 2. If you have read Blog 1, I hope you enjoyed it. Some of these writings have...

Greetings to you, Don't we all love to laugh? And laughing is good for us: it promotes health, healing, and long life....