http://www.czainski.com en-gb czainski.com 2012-2-8T00:00:00Z czainski.com http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#112037 Is it really that long since I last bloggedThe art is keeping me so busy which is good New capacious spacious airy studio ...and cant wait to get in there every day to get on with my new directions projects and microwave lunches m pleased with my first ever major portrait which shows my lovely Chris in spotty attire. She is seated at a spotty bedecked table . . . . .all FOUR of her. I call it Installation because I think that is what it is. Ive also finished my next Madonna a trompe loeil of the blessed virgin standing in a niche surrounded by roses. Im experimenting with collage and painting over pages of old ChristiesSothebys catalogues which is great fun and generally involves odd depictions of fish.Looking forward to our joint Czainski show at Wendy Levy gallery in April and to exhibitions around the world with the Uncooked Culture collective also the affordable art fair in London in a few weeks fingers crossed for some sales. Our artistic life is blossoming and ... 2012-2-7 23:42:38 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#93628 Since the last blog I have been busy with a mixed bag of stuff the most interesting being a commission for WHPattersons gallery window This was to do with the recent Royal Wedding and I painted a trompe loeil of Kate and William. see image.Its been RNLI annual exhibition time again and Chris and I put a mixed bag of entertaining and challenging works into the group show. I even sold 3 works which is great considering that very few people put their hand in their pockets this year. Just now I am busy with drypoints as for the whole of June I will be exhibiting over a dozen of them at Dean Clough in the Viaduct Cafe. If anyone wants to come to the private view its from 12 noon until 1.30pm on Saturday 11th June 2011. I will be showing with a Dean Clough photographer Anni Kurmis.The Affordable Art Fair this year in London was enjoyable and profitable. At last somebody bought Beacon and Under Starters Orders I thought they would have been snapped up ages ago. 2011-5-10 17:25:34 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#84202 Christmas shows Venice in Peril Exhibition Commissions Moscow.Not blogged for 3 months just been ridiculously busy Really getting some Art done these days. Did a bit of orchid painting in the summer and managed to get on with another trompe loeil Madonna ...this time in a fetching floral chinz gown. Went to Tatton Park and was blown over by the mad gaudy summer bedding in the greenhouses knew I was going to paint a large canvas inspired by this as soon as I got home ... so I did just finishing touches required now.The client in Moscow liked my watercolour of the proposed murals for the guest bedroom in his new house there so off Chris and I went to tackle the walls. It was a monkey caprice in sepia with trompe loeil borders. We are very proud of this creation and have been paid.. which is always a good thing. We may well sort out our choicest photos from the month spent exploring Moscow with a view to mounting a small exhibition. NH design asked for two... 2011-1-8 20:45:23 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#75672 Very pleased with our Shared Icons show at the Staithes Gallery flogged nearly 30 works between us which is good going in the present economic climate. Now looking forward to Chriss exhibition with 8 other Outsider artists in London soon check out her website.... see links. Before that were off to Moscow to paint a mural which gets us out of the studio for a while... not a bad thing because weve been highly focused heads down in there for ages and it will be refreshing to attack big blank walls away from our demanding allencompassing obsessions.If youve not been there yet get along to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see the David Nash exhibition........... BLISS you wont experience a show much better than this.. honest Just about finished another Madonna. Shes standing in a niche and has a lovely floral print dress on. I think she may be better than the last one she was wearing a willow pattern frock. Also just finishing a large canvas its a blow up of a detail of the beddin... 2010-9-16 22:07:02 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#68174 Long time since the last blog but so much has happened Its been a slog...head down preparing for our two person show at The Staithes Gallery. Chris and I had a great opening night and we are enjoying a good response from all ages art lovers and non art lovers alike A few sales have really helped too and hope this continues till the end of our show on 11th July.At Artsmill in Hebden Bridge we have put in a few artworks for a Green Art exhibition Environmental Issues. This is on until 20th June and well worth a look.Ill be putting some pictures into the Summer show at the Wendy Levy Gallery in Didsbury Manchester soon and some works are crossing the Atlantic to the USA for a fair in NANTUCKETSeptember sees us both in Moscow we will be painting a mural for a private client and then possibly on to New Orleans for a fun project in the old French Quarter.If you have read to the end of this blog and you are still interested then you may like to visit my painted elephant it is right outsid... 2010-6-17 13:11:20 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#60933 Wheres the fun gone from in general art these days. I was inspired in my schooldays by the likes of Patrick Hughes Anthony Earnshaw Oldenberg Magritte the hilarious antics and anarchy of the early 1970s Leeds Poly. for instance. ...then Ivor Cutler Glen Baxter. . . . . . does anyone who subscribes to A.N. magazine Im sure all ye artists buy it or borrow it feel mildly depressed after deciphering the artspeak in the vain hope of finding a little joie de vivre or a hint of a good time We need someone up there with the Hirsts the Emins etc. whos not afraid to brighten all our lives and teach us artists not to be so serious or intellectual in our aims instead to let ourselves release our inner honesty which Im sure contains large measures of humour. Its good to giggle Art can be funny it is not mysterious just creative ... so we are allowed to laugh. 2010-3-19 21:16:59 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#57747 Having a roller coaster of a time artistically and it looks like it is going to continue. I am full of ideas for paintings and Chris and I are back dancing again and really enjoying it. Mario our Cuban dance teacher is brilliant and we are learning and laughing. Just about to paint an elephant 5foot tall fibre glass sculpture for The Elephant Parade in London in the Summer. httpelephantparadelondon.org Its a collaboration with Nicky Haslam and if all goes well the finished elephant will be put on a plinth in a prominent place in London for all to see. Looking forward to a brief visit to New Orleans and doing some painting in the style of Cy Twombly. I have already enjoyed painting a few Twombly panels for myself.The Christmas Show at WH Patterson went really well as did the Venice in Peril annual exhibition and I am really pleased that I did so well with the sales.Last week completed a 15 x 9 screen inspired by Salvador Dali for a drawing room in London.Now I have to think rea... 2010-2-5 00:23:02 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#55121 Gosh so much has happened since the last blog. Christmas shows galore at Pattersons Cupola gallery Arts Mill Hebden Bridge and Dean Clough Halifax Wendy Levy Didsbury Manchester and our Open Studios at 59 Steps in Hebden bridge. The big one was at WHPatterson in Mayfair. YIPPEE it was my first group exhibition in London The Gallery Christmas Show and I did really well selling paintings before the show even opened I couldnt be more pleased.I managed to paint a couple of commissions nature and a Venice painting in the run up to Christmas so I have been really busy. Enjoyed painting our annual Christmas Card and doing a few drypoints. Looking forward to preparing for the Chris and paul Czainski husband and wife show at The Staithes Gallery in Staithes on the Yorkshire Coast. Contact Staithes Gallery for further information.Grab yourself a copy of Y The Yorkshire Tourist Magazine for 2010 Welcome to Yorkshire Chris is featured in an article about Yorkshire artists and has recently be... 2009-12-28 23:17:49 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#53272 Chris and I have been hard at work all day in the studio and thats after a one and a half hour French conversation classIt was drypoint again today and our competence is growing together with our confidence. Chris has done a lovely series of drypoints taken from her image of upturned boats fishermans huts on Lindisfarne. I meanwhile managed a few extra prints of Hamish our now very famous honeymoon bull. We celebrated with a couple of Aphrodites puddings quince based steamed delicacy.We both have several Christmas exhibitions on the go more later consequently we just cant produce enough or fast enough to supply our publics needs Check out Chriss new wearable art collection at Dean Clough Halifax. They are amazing. It is jewellery with attitude and extra bling. Here is are some examplesI have been contributing in no small way by supplying fragments of painting behind glass using gold and silver leaf and paint. 2009-11-23 23:07:26 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#52075 Mixed with the glitterati again last night at the launch of our favourite patrons book Redeeming Features the irrepressible Nicky Haslam. Wonderful cocktails magical ambience and lots of catch up time with old friends colleagues and clients. Said hello to Michael Craig Martin Mr Conceptual Art himself He was my tutor at Goldsmiths in 1970s. Preceding this Chris and I went to the RA to see the Anish Kapoor spectacular. The red wax train was a REVELATION. Miss this show and its your loss.Also loved the Eric Gill Epstein Gaudier Brezska exhibition also at the Royal Academy. 2009-11-6 16:32:23 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#51298 Been painting orchids again delivering new paintings to WH Patterson visiting the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea London and doing a drypoint workshop with Temsuyanger Longkumer at The Contemporary Urban Centre in London. Check out Temsus website he is a really interesting guy and a wonderful and patient teacher. httpwww.temsuyanger.comI created a drypoint which I think is my best so far a fine Scottish bull. Came out of the AAF feeling a little jaded this year there was nothing much that was memorable but today things cheered up a bit at Dean Clough in Halifax. There were several previews and wine with Chris Vine as usual making everyone smile with his surrealist water colours and paintings. 2009-10-24 18:23:40 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#50834 Just got back from the graining and marbling olympics in Blackburn Lancashire. Had a great time watching demonstrations from the continental contingent and looking at exhibits of fine examples of convincing exotic woods and marbles. Gave a talk and demonstration to Keighley Art Club on Wednesday lovely people about my work from when I started to the present day and had a good response. The tea and cakes werent bad either.I dont normally give talks a bit shy but amazingly soon got into my flow. Thanks to John Wyeth the president of the club for inviting me over to Keighley to show off. 2009-10-17 20:18:41 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#50485 Look out for a new section to my website very soon this is to do with graining and marbling. I have been marbling and graining since 1975 and very seriously so in the early days but now I use it mainly as an adjunct to my studio work or within larger commissions of decorative painting. This weekend we are off to sunny Blackburn Lancashire to check out the Graining and Marbling Olympics sounds strange but specialists from all over the world will be exhibiting and competing showing off and generally networking and studying their competitors. I will write a short report next week. This has encouraged me to join some kind of guildfederationfellowship and I am keen to find out what all these decorators are doing out there.Been painting beetles today and tomorrow its back on with painting the masdevallias. 2009-10-13 00:19:58 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#49563 Having a mermaid for a wife makes washday much more fun. For her birthday I painted her birthday cards showing off her spotty garments. 2009-9-28 11:31:24 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#48730 As if there arent enough seagulls in Staithes I have painted a herring gull above our outside doorIt has caused a bit of a stir and increased the tourist traffic through our yard which is just what Chris and I had hoped for. I have dropped off some new stuff in the gallery there so get on down to Staithes and check out my Mona Lisa with a Large Haddock. This week I am painting orchids for a passionate orchid collector which is a new departure for me.I am also busy sending pictures off to various competitions you never know someone has to win it might as well be me. Hee hee hee..... fingers crossed. 2009-9-14 22:38:59 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#46409 In between bouts of picking bilberries from the moors and fruit from the garden I have managed to get some time in the studio. You could say I am on a roll at the moment working on a series of trompe loeil postcards on woodgrained backgrounds. One of them shows a Medieval woman with a stick of Blackpool rock sellotaped to the surface ..... really pleased with it.About to paint a seagull and also to think about pictures for future competitions about time I won something. Will put new pictures on the website soon. 2009-8-6 09:44:04 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#45451 So much has happened since my last blog I am now an exhibitor at Wendy Levy Gallery Didsbury Manchester httpwww.wendyjlevyart.com.I have already sold a couple at their Summer Show for newcomers which is great news. I have also got some pictures now at Gallery Top in Derbyshire httpwww.gallerytop.co.uk for the duration of their Summer Show. Pop in on your way to Chatsworth House and have a look.If you happen to be visiting Madrid this year I have got 7 of my favourite works on show at Galeria Gaudi httpwww.galeriagaudi.net Chris has got 7 great art works there too.We have had a very busy open studio at the beginning of July and generated a lot of interest and followed this with a fantastic Open Garden our studio was open for that event too. I produced a garden sculpture which I was happy with but dont know what the public made of it. Coincidentally we made over 163500 for Overgate Hospice Chriss cakes must have been very popular.I got considered for the Threadneedle prize exhibit... 2009-7-23 16:19:27 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#40770 Spent some time in the Garden of Eden today our beautiful garden. Got an idea to make a crazy monochrome stretch of flower bed cutting right through diagonally or spirally the top area of lawn this should surprise a few people Still not painted the masterpiece in the sitooterie but I am getting seriously close to getting on with it. We are having a garden open on 12th July to which you are all invited in aid of the local hospice and this will be a fantastic outlet for our creativity. We will hopefully have more sculptures than last year probably music and wonderful cakes and teas. Great news Chris and I have been invited to show at a large Art Fair in Italy.....how exciting as for painting I think I am doing my best stuff ever on the virginmadonna theme. I will get them on to the web site.Sold a couple of things at the RNLI show at Staithes Staithes Gallery Hopefully more will go. I dont know how I did at Otley but the exhibition space was wonderful in Chippendales old house P... 2009-4-29 18:53:26 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#37988 Visited York at the weekend. Annual arty mystery trip with chums. Hit the jackpot it was the Stanley Spencer exhibition at theYork City Gallery. His drawings thrill me check out his Apple Gatherers. That man really knew how to make a picture. Then toddle up the road to Fairfax House a complete 18th century masterpiece by Carr of York. Worth seeing even if only for the displays of sugar paste sculptures and confections which graced the tables of those grand Georgian dinner parties.Really enjoying my latest trompe loeil painting. Its a Madonna in a niche. It is quite a large work for me and she is going to have a wonderful willow pattern gown. For goodness sake someone commission me to decorate a church 2009-3-10 23:05:56 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#36083 It was far too chilly to venture out in the blizzard so I contented myself with pen ink paint and my imagination. I have got a kind of rocking fish theme going at the moment one of which has a mermaid on its back another is on the promenade at night accompanied by various stray animals. I wondered whether a rocking horse might like to get its own back so I produced quite a scary drawing which will be posted on my website quite soon. Chris and I joined in a 1940s theme night at the village hall. Chris looked stunning and totally authentic and I also felt very comfortable in the period clothes. Spam and Glenn Miller I will post a picture soon.Here i am 2009-2-4 23:16:16 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#34692 Venice is in peril from the rising flood waters due to global warming. In order to install a new damp course funds are needed. Next week sees the 18th annual Venice in Peril exhibition at WH Patterson 19 Albemarle St Mayfair London W1S4BB.Money is raised for this worthy cause and the more paintings sold the more Venice dries outI have presented 3 pictures to be shown there but hurry one has sold already even before the preview. Check out Round Trip in the picture gallery here. New Year was wonderful and was spent partying sleeping and painting. Chris was busy with her mosaics outside in the freezing cold using shells and pottery fragments.If you find it too chilly to leave the house at this time of year flop back on your settee and watch Grey Gardens a delightful cult film by the Maysles brothers and be amazed. 2009-1-8 18:23:53 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#33322 Been a jewellery artist today painting on fragments of Chriss Thames bones and throwing in a bit of silvering and gilding. Common themes include images of fish mermaids rowing boats ans swimmers.Spent the weekend in a Medieval Castle in Wales. Still recovering from 3 consecutive late night parties and daytime dance sessions all Cuban...... salsa rumba son.Hoping to do some dance themed paintings at some point. I have already done some ink drawings on a fishysalsa theme. httpwww.czainski.compage8.htm 2008-12-4 23:19:06 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#32844 Why not visit WH Patterson 19 Albermarle Street Mayfair in January and have a look at their annual exhibition in aid of the Venice in peril fund. httpwww.whpatterson.comAll pictures have to be about Venice but sadly I have never been so must conjure up paintings from my imagination. This year I have completed a single gondola way out to sea in the moonlight with its passengers and the next picture is an homage to Michael Sowa. He is the man who painted a pig splashing about in a soup bowl. My take on this is a gondola in a soup bowl with a view of Venice pictured through a window. I have two more pictures in mind trompe loeil postcards of Venice and maybe a drowned Venice.Just completed a pumpkin by moonlight which has a Di Chirico feel about it.... it is a Crown Prince pumpkin that I grew this year and is a monster 2008-11-25 10:13:07 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#32274 Been for a visit to the seaside.Saw the most amazing seafront bonfire at Skinningrove on the North Yorkshire coast.Got on with studio work in Staithes.a. did a drawing of a wicker fish inspired by the bonfireb.painted gorgeous sunflowers on our food cupboardc. did a drawing of a Noahs ark inhabited by fishd. began a painting of fishing floatsAlso visited Middlesborough art gallery and the Dorman museum. The latter should be a world heritage site And everyone HAS to go there if only to see the spectacular collection of speckly birds eggs 2008-11-12 19:23:23 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#31323 Still not made it down to earth after being guests at Nicky Haslams magical party. Never thought that Chris and I would be among16 people dancing on the same revolving dance floor with Keanu Reeves Paris Hilton Sharon Osborne Tracy Emin Trinny Woodward at the end of the evening. We werent shy. Was it the Champagne Showed off a few of our Latin movesYou must google Nicky Haslams PartyTelegraph for a great video showing some of the beautifully decorated venue designed by Nicky of course.Been a very heady week for us after a mention in Novembers The World of Interiors Nicky Haslams Swish Chalet. Check out page 168 where we get a very generous accolade by Nicky. ......Paul and Chris Czainskiwho are according to Haslam the greatest decorative painters in the world..WOWExhibited at Manchester Art Fair Buy Art at Urbis but no one bought anything probably hit by the credit crunch. A good social event though and helped David and Alison Staithes Gallery set up their stand.Also went to Fri... 2008-10-20 17:32:48 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#31119 Special day today preparing for Nicky Haslams party of the year tonight. Google Nicky Haslam birthday to read the telegraph article about it. Its going to be a splendid do As spectacular as one might expect from Nicky.Also have a look at the World of Interiors P 159 November 2008 Swish Chalet high praise from Nicky 2008-10-16 16:00:52 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#28369 Does anybody out there have any pictures of the Duchess of Windsors trompe loeil furniture probably supplied by the studios of Jansen the foremost design company in Paris in the 20th century especially work by Natter I need some reference images or leads. I had this artist in mind when I painted Postcards from Venice for the Venice in Peril exhibition WH Patterson. 2008-8-15 23:06:30 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#28125 Just completed a glamorous dining room in London with delicious chinoiseriesin lovely greens greys mauves and antique whites set off by antique mirrored panels.... then off to paint a library with fun marblings. Exhausted but enjoyed every minute of it.Enjoyed Cy Twombly at Tate Modern and indulged ourselves with Dark Knight and Sex and the City. Cant be expected to paint ALL of the timeP.S. Sold the bat painting see painting gallery. 2008-8-10 15:56:21 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#25959 Just visited Wimpole Hall the grandest country house in Cambridgeshire. Chris and I were delighted to find that the pillars I had painted 30 years ago in the entrance hall were still looking good and depicted on the postcards too They were the first columns I ever marbled. There is a fantastic piece of trompe loeil on a table top by Boilly worth a special trip to look at and also enjoy the Victoria Sponge in the cafe. 2008-6-23 10:08:48 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#25785 Just had a fantastic weekend showing off the garden Open Gardens Midgley. Had 378 visitors wandering around puzzling over Chriss giant grass teapot and tablecloth and strange things in the wood man made out of yew and sheeps fleece and severed head in the foxgloves........ a mannequin head. We had our house guests sculpting for two or three days to keep them off the streets.I just had time to do a spiral sculpture made from trimmings from our giant clumps of grass and hung some of my fruit and vegetable paintings in the sitooterie garden pavilion.Now its back to the studio and a larger than my normal painting of a lovely russet bull in a boat out at seaWhy not where ever you live in the world come and see our work as we have four days of Open Studios very soon 4th 7th July 2008 as part of the Hebden Bridge Open Studios and at the same time sample something of the Hebden Bridge Festival.httpwww.hebdenbridge.co.ukfestival 2008-6-19 11:25:45 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#24588 Moved on from painting seabirds for a while. Suffering from a surfeit of inspiring source material just now. The queue is as follows little lead race horses broken clay pipes from the Calder and Hebble Navigation sections of partially stripped walls at the cottage marbles English Florist Tulips and a mural for the sitooterieShould keep me going for a while. More pictures on my website in a couple of days. 2008-5-23 16:13:39 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#23144 Just produced a large charcoal study of the aforesaid bird and sold it Do hope I am not turning into a bird artist Also just finished an oil canvas of Yorkshire fisherwomen at their knitting in the open sea in a rudderless powerless fishing vessel cobble turning a bit stormy 2008-4-20 23:29:47 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#22686 My spectacular stuffed seagull has arrived. It is massive with outstretched wings and a fierce expression worth a substantial oil pailnting. It is a slightly grimy bird and needs a wash and brush up. 2008-4-10 23:01:54 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#22109 At the Staithes RNLI show we had a great time....AND sold 3 artworks this means 3 bottles of champagneThere is still a week to go so if you fancy a day out on the lovely Yorkshire coast take your wallet along as there are plenty of lovely things left to buy.Been having fun over the last couple of days in the studio painting two large trompe loeil clockbarometers on wooden cut outs. May stick them on the website.I am looking forward to painting some more seagulls as they seem to be popular and a dear friend is delivering a stuffed blackbacked gull shortly What a great present 2008-3-30 20:26:11 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#21520 The older I get the more I work from memory. By now I rely on my mental archive of images and ideas. What a bore sourcing material from books magazines.... and ....God forbid the INTERNET. It irks me that so many artists dont draw rather they use only tracings or photoshop and that the art loving public have little idea about whether an artist can draw or not or careJust been to a big art fair with Chris .......the public were buying giclee prints pussy cat pictures and those touristy paintings of Old Havana with the old cars We know who you are 2008-3-18 16:09:44 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#20538 Get along to Dean Clough Arts Business Complex Halifax and spend a good half day or more exploring the corridors which are stuffed with great contemporary art.I have just seen a fantastic show there ongoing of sculpture which uses taxidermy as its most important element. I especially loved the RAT salt and pepper shakers. Afterwards pop downstairs for the best coffee in the area in the Viaduct Cafe and take a look at my pictures..... you could even buy one they are for saleLucky me as the Venice in Peril exhibition finishes I am already framing paintings for the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park in March and the RNLI mixed exhibition at the Staithes Gallery.Keep an eye out for Staithes paintings MINE TOO at Otley Grammar School which will also take place mid March onwards.My wife Chris will be exhibiting her unusual sculptures with me at the Staithes Gallery in March RNLI mixed show. Her website will be sorted imminently Take a look and you will be pleasantly suprised and perhap... 2008-2-26 22:56:43 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#19356 Currently working in the studio on new paintings for the Lifeboat show in Staithes. March 2008 2008-1-31 08:16:02 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#18455 I have got a very weird mix of artistic projects at the moment.a. a series of paintings of Venice oops never been to Veniceb. marbling a couple of black lacquer fifties bed side chestsc. intricate paintings of sections of partially stripped layers of wallpaper in our cottage.d. grisaille clockbarometer cases with baroque designs and arabesquese. some surreal painted fantasies from a seaside fishing village in YorkshireCome and see some of my paintings in the flesh from 22nd of January 2008 at W.H Patterson 19 Albermarle St Mayfair Londonand at Staithes Gallery ongoing and at the annual Lifeboat Exhibition 20th March to 6th April 2008 See web site for details. 2008-1-10 19:11:32 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#16391 I think i have just solved my problem with updating the blogYES. Blips sorted at last. It really pays off to keep at it Was something to do with cookies and browser. 2007-11-11 15:20:33 http://www.czainski.com/page15.htm#16246 Still working on the site and trying to iron out some blips. Cant seem to get titles and descriptions into gallery pages. Should happen eventually. If you have queries re any of the images just email us.We are both busy in the studio at the moment working on a mural for a roof garden and a scheme for a private London apartment.Paul is also working on a series of paintings for the Venice in Peril show at WH Pattersons January 2008.111107Still got blips cant seem to update the blog but having fun at the moment.Theres a great quote from the film The Rebel Tony Hancock every brush stroke should be torn from your body. What nonsense The more enjoyable a painting is to do the more successful it turns out to be in the end. Fun and enjoyment is a great aid to creativity. 2007-11-6 11:51:53