Sunday, 24 April 2016

Office Love, Paris, 1977. Helmut Newton. Sold for $30,000 at Phillips NYC 2010.

Monday, 18 April 2016

Thank you for the book Abby. Wreck This Journal.

Ash(es) At Lords

The Pavilion, England vs Australia, 5:38pm, 333 for 5. ink on paper. 2013.

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Peter, The Bee's & Me

My fellow members at the R.H.S. would be proud. 
Spring cleaning at Lower Lodge. New gravel coming soon.
Sunflower Mobile Installation. Last Years Crop. 
The photos don't do the heads justice.

Wednesday, 2 March 2016


i found this drawing on my computer. 2o12.

Temple of Virtue

Portrait of a Young Women (La Fornarina), Raphael, oil on wood. 1518 - 1519.
Temple of Virtue, Ashley lil, ink on paper. 2012.

Monday, 22 February 2016

Friday, 19 February 2016

Denderah, interieur du temple, Egypt

i finally framed my gift from Lloyd. Denderah, interieur du temple, Egypt, J.P. Sebah, Turkish, Albumen print. 1980.

The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative.

Sunday, 14 February 2016

In All Her Glory

Lower Lodge in all her glory. 10 Page Spread. Homes and Garden. February 2016.
page 1 - my favourite spot to needlepoint.

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Monday, 1 February 2016

Well Hello February...

finally received my new calendar. right on time.

Look what i found...

look what i found hiding under my bed...part of my print collection. antique prints from 1800's - 1970's.
my two favourites. hand water coloured etching. circa 1840.
The intrepid behaviour of Captain Napier, etching. 1815

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Cupid & Psyche

This is my all time love. sculpture by Antonio Canova. I've tried drawing this image for years with no luck. Its perfect the way it is.

To my one and only BFF

Flashback: 12 years ago. Yikes! What a wild ride. Happy 30th Chant! xx #rudegirls
 i love you to bits and pieces and miss you loads and loads and loads. love you, love you, love you.

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Ruins are curious objects of desire: they seduce us with decay and destruction. The ruin may remind us of a glorious past now lying in pieces, or point to the future collapse of our present culture. For centuries artist have been attracted to ruins, seeing new ideals of beauty in their desolation, as well as sublime warnings from the past.

This is my all time favourite photo by fashion fetish photographer Helmut Newton. 

Lower Lodge

I am so proud of my in-laws, Stephaine and Big P for making the cover of Homes and Gardens. What a great way to start the year! Take that 2016! 

Monday, 17 November 2014

Robert Rauschenberg, Bed 1955

Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. He is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Dmitri Galitzine BESt In SHow

Best in Show
c-type prints
55 x 55cms
made in collaboration with Tom Bolwell

Best in Show is a series of photographs depicting the prize-winning poultry of the Smallholder and Garden Festival in mid-Wales, one of the leading poultry shows in the UK. Compelled by competition and showmanship, breeders cultivate nature into step with a quite particular set of ideals. Following their lead, these images are composed using the techniques employed by professional poultry photographers, displaying birds exemplary in their class, carefully groomed and modelling their species essence like calendar-girls.

Dmitri Galizine - Mans influence over nature - Tagged Foot

Thursday, 20 March 2014

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Love From The Old Gang

postcard from the Acadia crew.
in the garden.
lions valley.
StoreHouse painting and photos. xxx

Homage To A Square

Look who I ran into! Josef Albers, Homage To A Square. Colour Theory.