After not picking up a brush since my Art A Level days, retirement has given me the opportunity to resurrect my love of painting. I get a huge sense of enjoyment from creating in the post-impressionism style using broad strokes and raw colours. Most of my works are portraits but I also enjoy painting churches and I have been known to clear my basement, cover the whole floor with decorator’s plastic sheets, put down a canvas and get to work on a Jackson Pollock. More recently I’ve started experimenting with the Cubist style and, I must admit, Alberto Giacometti fascinates me.
Plombiere les bains et l’eau
Winner of the “Concours des Peintres dans la rue” 2023
Ra
This picture and a previous post of Khonsu (Egyptian moon god) won first prize at the Epinal Acadamie exhibition.
Self portait
I first tried this using a mirror, cos I had read that only proper self portraits where done live from a mirror.. so I tried, see below. To me it is a more dynamic sketch and I like the composition.. just a shame the likeness didn’t work out. So I asked a friend, Louna, to take my photo so I could have another go from that.
