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A unique wedding gift – Offer

Bevelled wooden frame with glass front

(wood from sustainable forests)

Approximate size A3

(42cm x 28cm 16″ x 12″ – including frame and mount)

It is that time of year when people in love wish to settle down and make a commitment to each other in front of those they love and hold dear.

The perfect unique present to commemorate the day, or the anniversary of that day, is an individually hand painted watercolour painting of the church, registry office or place of union.

The clock in the picture will be set at the time of the wedding and the painting will be dated as the day of the union.

If you wish to take advantage of this offer simply click the above picture and you will be taken to the offers page. After payment I will contact you to find out where the couple are to be married or where you were married and at what time on what day. Then within a week the present will be delivered to your door.

A timeless gift to be treasured forever

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Pet Paintings

West Midland Safari Park

I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to West Midland Safari Park for letting me meet one of their beautiful elephants, who I have since found out is also an artist. I was completely overwhelmed by the surprise and it is an experience that will stay in my heart forever. A big thank you to Jodie Foster for arranging the amazing experience, Rosie Wilkes for being such a wonderful guide, Andy Pumb and Lawrence Bates for keeping the elephants happy and trusting me with them, Angela Potter for all her help and enthusiam for my artwork, and everyone else at the park who helped to make the day so wonderful.

I am so happy that they all loved their present of a framed print of the elephants, which you can see here, and I am looking forward to painting a new piece of animal artwork for the park, which I will be dedicating to them along with 10 framed prints to raise money for the animals.

It was such a wonderful day and definately worth a trip, for more information on the park and animals simply click this link

If you would like to view more artwork please click on a link below

Artwork 2012 Figures Animals Landscapes Buildings Still Life Abstract Greetings Cards Inspirations

International Artist!

First and foremost I would like to thank you all for your patience in regard to the delay on print orders, alongside moving business premises, and the ridiculous length of time it has taken to get back online, I had not advertised the NEW ONLINE SHOP therefore I didn’t expect anyone to visit it and try to use it, more fool me, I hold my hands up and accept full responsibility for my oversight and I will endeavour to post all prints ASAP. Thank you once again for your patience.

With this in mind, I am once again overwhelmed at the response I have had from you all and your interest and enthusiasm in my artwork. It really does mean a great deal to me. I am currently working on a new body of work, something a little different.

With the start of international print sales I realise that I can now call myself an international artist as not only have I sold original artwork in Bristol, Newcastle, Weston-Super-Mare, Cumbria, Leeds, Stockport, Manchester, Cornwall, Devon and London – hopefully Birmingham will be next – but I am also selling prints to our cousins over the pond in America.

I am grateful and humbled as ever for all of your support.

Sometimes you really make me feel like I will make it!

A great big THANK YOU!

WOW i’m completely overwhelmed at the response I have got in relation to my time lapse videos.

Not only did I sell the picture that I painted for Adele’s single Someone Like You, within a few hours of posting the video on youtube, but over a wopping 1,500 people have taken the time to watch the time-lapse video which shows the artwork coming into creation!

And I can hardly believe that over 2,500 people have also watched my time-lapse video for Oh Lands single Wolf and I.

That is simply wonderful and I thank you all very much.

For those of you who have not seen them yet, the videos they are below.

An Artistic Realisation

Not just a pet portrait…

I always worried when offering the service of pet portraits as when I look over the internet the pet portraits I come across are really amazing and could be photographs and it’s pretty hard to compete against a photograph, but I have had a realisation.

I don’t do pet portraits! What I actually is do is pet paintings.

With most portraits you simply get a realistic picture of an animals head with no background image, the animal could be anywhere, but when I paint a picture of a pet I paint the whole picture and I put the animal in a setting, therefore i’m not doing a portrait at all, what I am actually doing is an original painting of a pet.

I feel much happier now I have realised this. Not only is it an original painting rather than a portrait, as it is an original painting it will be worth a lot more to the buyer in a monetary sense when I die.

Above is my most recent pet painting. It is Ted and Bonnie, the father daughter duo from The Exeter Inn, Chittlehamholt, North Devon. They are great dogs, I would steal them if my handbag was big enough. They love bouncing through long grass so even though the photograph I took of the dogs was taken in an office I decided to put them outdoors in their favourite place.

Please Click here to be taken to the Pet Painting Product Page

Progression

After a 6 month tour of Cornwall my partner and I have landed in a little village called Chittlehamholt in North Devon. The landlord of the Exeter Inn has given me a wall in the conservatory, where people dine, to hang art, which is great. I have hung 7 framed prints for £35 each and yesterday I sold 3 of them, which is brilliant. I have now painted some originals to hang, you can see them below, they will be sold for around £130 each. They are box canvasses so the picture wraps around the whole frame.

Exmoor Stag at Sunset (2011)

Warkleigh, North Devon (2011)

Instow, North Devon (2011)

Dartmoor, Devon (2011)

I am currently updating this website to make it easier to use, so please bare with me until it’s done. I will also finally have an online shop so people can buy prints.

The old saying:

If you want something done, do it yourself

is incredibly true and seems very apt right now

Seduction

This is my newest piece which has been painted for a competition. The 1st prize in the competition is to be represented by a leading london gallery and the 2nd prize is for 15 artists to have their work professionally framed and shown in Dulwich Gallery, so I am sure you can imagine how much it would mean to me to come either 1st or 2nd. Here is my entry for the still life category, I tried incredibly hard on this piece and tried to make is as perfect as I could, so please do let me know what you think, it’s different from my older paintings, even the ones from this years time-lapse!

While undertaking the painting of this picture I set up the scene using the rules of art and took many photos to work out the best composition of the piece. The rules of art which I used are to always use an uneven number of objects as the brain automatically tries to couple things together (like with like) and if there are an uneven number of elements to a painting it keeps the mind thinking. The other rule is in relation to the use of colour and using opposite colours to make colours jump off of the canvas, for example the opposite of red is green – as green is made from blue and yellow and neither are used to make red – therefore I used green in the dark areas to make the red areas bolder.

I am very happy with this painting.

Seduction by Stacey Clarke

There’s a place, keeps on calling me…

I’ve taken to the road and put down my paint brushes for a short while whilst I build some great websites.

You can read about our journey around Cornwall, England, here in our Cornish blog

Time-lapse paintings

It’s very difficult to get noticed in the art world and really get someones attention with a painting as people only look at a painting for a few seconds to a minute, so I decided to put some time-lapse videos together to really ‘show’ people my artwork.

My first time-lapse painting is of crows flying over Glastonbury Tor. Crows are very intelligent birds and the rhyme “one for sorrow, two for joy…” was originally about crows, therefore I decided that I would include two crows in the painting. Glastonbury Tor is a very spiritual place, linked with the King of Fairies, Avalon, King Arthur and the Holy Grail. If you ever have chance to visit it and look over the surrounding countryside I would strongly suggest that you do and take some time to sit at the top and breathe in the fresh air.

In mythology crows are linked to reincarnation and the souls passing, therefore due to Glastonbury Tors spirtual links I thought it would a great place for them to fly over. The white ribbon symbolises our delicate soul.

Crows over Glasonbury Tor

Music by Dj Food – The Crow: I believe the music goes really well with the video and I am very pleased with the outcome.

After my first time-lapse video I wished to paint something much bigger to really show what I was capable of. I felt the song was very important to the paiting and shouldn’t simply be background music, therefore I chose an emotional song which moved me and really meant something to me.

Running up that Hill is about men and women wishing to change places so they understand each other better in their relationship, but I didn’t think that wish would stop at simply men and women in relationships. I strongly believe that everyone yearns to be understood and lots of people wish to understand each other better, so I included many different people running up the hill. In the front of the picture there is a woman and a man talking to an angel. The man is ready to run up the hill, but the woman is more reluctant as she doesn’t know if a complete understanding of each other is always a good thing and maybe some things should be left unknown.

Running up that Hill

Music by Placebo – Running up that hill

With my next time-lapse painting I searched through 100′s of songs to find the right piece. I was torn between using music that was significant to me and chosing music that I thought people would like. After some thought I decided not to try to please people with my music selection and I also decided not to use a piece of music that was significant to me in in some way. I have already painted my feelings of the past, so I decided that I wanted to create something new and I came across this piece of music and completely fell in love with it.

The painting came from listening to the music.

The Barn

Music by Yann Tiersen – Comptine d’un autree ete

I was incredibly flattered by the responce and support I recieved from people who watched these videos and I will no doubt make another in the future, but there are so many thoughts and images in my mind that I could paint, which would work with music, that it is hard to decide where to start.