Or should I be a little bit more positive and title this post ‘A journey of a thousand miles…’? The truth is I am frustrated and I am not ashamed to say this because whatever our hopes and aspirations, life does have to happen first and much as I would love to paint full time […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis, The Business of Art , African Art, African artists, anne blankson-hemans, Art from Ghana, diaspora, fruit, Ghana, oil on canvas, oil painting, sellers, sellerse |
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Mad About The Art?
By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis, The Business of Art , anne blankson-hemans, Dancing with crocodiles, daphne todd, lachlan goudie, Richard bacon, the big painting challenge, the little painting challenge, una stubbs |
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The morning after week before… and my random comments on The Big Painting Challenge BBC One 6pm Sundays… So you’ve seen us do the landscape challenge in the first episode and are starting to get a feel for what we are like under pressure. Here’s a couple of my favourite landscape paintings and a quick […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis , anne blankson-hemans, daylight bulbs, daylight saving, market, Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco, souk |
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I am facing some fresh challenges. Since the clocks changed for all that daylight saving malarkey , painting at the crack of dawn has been difficult as I have no natural light in my studio. Painting only at the weekends just frustrates me as I have my usual chores, family visits and other distractions and […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis , Accra, anne blankson-hemans, circle mall Accra, Ghana, paintings of Ghana |
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My fellow artists will understand this; when you have to sit back and just contemplate your painting whilst gathering your thoughts. In my head I am working it all out; what looks right, what doesn’t, what colours to put down etc… This morning I began to add the people. I think I am just about […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis, The Business of Art , Adele Henderson, anne blankson-hemans, Citylink, Citylink complaints, Citylink Customer service, David Smith, Goodbye News of the World, Jane Desmond, Robert Peto, Yesterday's News |
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Today I wrote this letter to David Smith MD of CityLink and copied Robert Peto, Finance Director, Jane Desmond, Customer Care Director and Adele Henderson, Director of Operations. I am hoping they will help me find my paintings which went missing en route to my customer on 2nd November. Mr David Smith, Managing Director, CityLink […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis , anne blankson-hemans, anti depression, CBT, cognitive behaviour therapy, depression, depressive illnes, Dr Joy Lilian Blankson-Hemans, dr Tim Cantopher, the curse of the strong |
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My mother could never understand why people would want to appear on TV to air their personal problems on shows like Oprah Winfrey, Vanessa, Tricia and Dr Phil. I would often reply by staring blankly at her as she asked this obviously rhetorical question for the umpteenth time because I knew she wasn’t really expecting an answer from […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis, Sunshine & Music, The Business of Art , anne blankson-hemans, BBC2, charlotte mullins, Chris Hollins, David Lee, harbour market at elmina, roy bolton, Show me the monet |
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Doing BBC2’s latest series of Show Me the Monet has probably been one of the highlights of my year so you will have to forgive me if I continue to milk it a little longer. It really was both exciting and nerve racking at the same time but all in all it was a good experience and […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis, The Business of Art , anne blankson-hemans, debt counselling, eviction notice, insolvency, losing your home, money crisis, Show me the monet |
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Anyone who saw my episode of Show Me the Monet will know that my finances are currently in a bit of a state and at the time the programme aired, I was in serious danger of losing my home. Well the inevitable happened and on 16th August I received a hand-delivered letter from the local […]
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Posted in Metamorphosis, The Business of Art , anne blankson-hemans, Artbiz blog, BBC TV, BBC2, Charlotte Mullins. Roy Bolton, Chris Hollins, David Lee, I'd rather be in the studio. Katherine Tyrell, Lucky Day productions, Making a mark, Show me the monet, the telegraph |
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The second series of BBC2’s Show Me The Monet (Lucky Day Productions) ended yesterday and for me it was an exciting 3 weeks (or 15 episodes) mostly because I was featured in it. I did miss series 1 and didn’t even know it was on the telly. If I’d known I would have been just […]
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By AnneBH
Posted in Metamorphosis, Sunshine & Music , anne blankson-hemans, art exhibition London, BBC2, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, Larry Otoo, Show me the monet, Sponsume, sponsume.com |
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I don’t know what’s worse. Doing this last push to raise the sponsorship we need for the joint exhibition in London in October or giving birth to my first child Nicholas almost 22 years ago to the day. I was in labour 23 hours and completely exhausted and all I could hear was everyone telling […]
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