Hotel Du Monde (large study)

This painting is one of a number of studies for a much bigger painting (with 36 windows) which I'm currently working on. In all these paintings we are looking at the facade of a building, perhaps a hostel or a hotel, and it's evening. In this study two dozen windows are visible to us. Each has a blind - some blinds are open, some partly open, some closed, and some rooms have the lights on . . which means that we occasionally get a glimpse of an occupant. Who are they? What's on their minds?

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Fun

Exhibited: 

2020-21 New Light Prize Art Prize touring exhibition - Scarborough Art Gallery, The Biscuit Factory Newcastle upon Tyne, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Carlisle, Bank Side Gallery of London 

 

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Via dei Bentaccordi

In 2019 when this painting was exhibited at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven there were nine figures depicted in the street. In 2021 I painted out two of them - a man carrying a baby, but added a new eighth figure - a woman photographer.   In June 2023 I set-to on the painting again and took out that woman but also six of the remaining 7 figures - leaving only the elderly lady . . and a much quieter street!

Exhibited:

2023    Lake Artists Summer Exhibition, Grasmere, Cumbria 

2019    'Drawn from Life' - a solo exhibition at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria  

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Tea Room Reservation

I'd undergone minor surgery at Whitehaven Hospital. My wife then collected me telling me about the lovely time she'd just had at a cafe overlooking the sea. Her description of her day was brilliant . . so we returned to the cafe where I hoped to experience something of what she'd enjoyed so much. I do think that my response to this occasion, painting 'Tea Room Reservation', was in reaction to the stress I'd been feeling prior to my operation.

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