Blogging isn’t as easy as I expected it to be but thinking about it I am not really sure what I expected. Like everything else it is a discipline and I need to get into some kind of routine with it. It is not as though I have nothing to say, so much goes on in my life but like everything else there is no real routine. Blogging experts do exhort us to blog on a regular basis so this is one discipline I will strive to perfect.

Having said all this, let me fill you in with what has been happening. My secret missions to London have now come to an end and I am waiting for the time when I will be able to tell you more about it. It should not be too long now so watch this space or subscribe to my blog.

You all will know I made the decision late last year to become a full time artist. This hasnt been plain sailing I will have you know and the reality of starving artist is more er… well reality than myth. The emerging artists life is not an easy one I can tell you. But I have been sowing seeds; my application to be on the BBC2 series Show Me The Monet was exciting and eye opening, a couple of applications to exhibit with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Lynn Painter Stainers exhibition, BP Portrait Awards and a few others which did not yield the expected results has taught me I need to take the rough with the smooth.

One very exciting highlight has been my exhibition  at the Malvern Theatres in Worcestershire. I was invited by my online gallery aptly called ArtGallery to join two other artists in hanging an exhibition from April 1st to 13th May. 6 whole weeks of showing off my paintings to a theatre with a footfall of 7000 people a week!. The exhibition is up and as we were hanging I was delighted to hear some of the comments by theatre visitors as the observed us whilst we measured and gauged and pulled and tugged to get the paintings hanging just right.

Exhib at Malvern Theatres, Worcs Apr 1 - May 13 2012

So my seeds have been sown and the spring is here. I am waiting patiently for the harvest which I am hoping will be bountiful.

As always, my prayer is one of thanksgiving for the gift of being able to paint to the delight of others as well as myself and also one of intercession on behalf of those considering a purchase; let the decision be swift, positive and er…  mutually beneficial. Have a blessed day!