Lucy’s Portrait

My watercolour portrait of Lucy, one of our NHS heroes, which I gave to her yesterday, on her birthday.

Many thanks Lucy and also thanks to Tom Croft for the inspiration.

Songs that get under your skin…

Not a great deal to be really happy about at the moment, but if I wanted to cheer myself up for 43 minutes and 59 seconds then this would be my choice…..It makes me feel so young!

The man who invented Rock and Roll

Little Richard Wayne Penniman: December, 1932 - May 9, 2020

Bob Dylan posted: 

“my shining star and guiding light back when I was only a little boy. His was the original spirit that moved me to do everything I would do,”

We’ll Meet Again

Just as everyone else. Looking forward to a time when we can spend time with our family and friends.

NHS Auction Open

Artists for the NHS auction is now open so please place a bid to raise funds to feed our frontline NHS workers.

Charity Auction at Gallery Different

I’ve donated my little Captain Tom painting to the Gallery Different Charity Auction.

No commission and 100% of the proceeds going to our NHS workers.

Info at: gallerydifferent.co.uk

NHS Heroine

Working on a portrait of Lucy, a good friend of my daughter and an NHS key worker. This was of course inspired by the portrait painter Tom Croft’s initiative: ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’.

Using Zoom and an iPad; I haven’t worked this way before but we’ll see how it goes.

Songs for Jack

‘Songs for a Tailor’ was the first solo album by the much missed multi-instrumentalist and incredible bass player ( of Cream ) Jack Bruce, who died in 2014. Great songs with surreal lyrics by Pete Brown with Jack Bruce’s amazing vocals and recorded with a great band……I still have my original copy from 1969 which I still love, as much as the 19 year old me did.

The Great Divide

The subject of my painting ‘The Great Divide’ is The Band who produced probably my favourite album of the late 1960s/early 1970s, eponymously entitled ‘The Band’ (aka ‘the Brown Album’ )

This record has all the magic of the ‘old weird America’ (as described in the book ‘Invisible Republic’ by Greil Marcus ) seamlessly incorporated into 12 original songs that sound like they were written a century earlier.

I never tire of listening to it.

Captain Tom

Congratulations to the marvellous Captain Tom Moore who, at time of writing, has raised £28 million for the NHS. Loving that great and inspiring things can happen in the most dire of circumstances.

Thanks to Captain Tom.