AmericArt

A few weeks ago I painted a small acrylic abstract on canvas board titled ‘Lost In Spain’. It became a part of the We Are All Artists free art project and the art work now belongs to a lovely lady named Stacie, who did some excellent detective work to figure out where the painting was made. Here’s a photograph of the art work being finished on our return from Spain, before it was handed over.

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Lost In Spain : Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas board

The following week I hid a piece of art in my local town after being photographed by the local newspaper who kindly ran a feature on the free art project (the piece in the photo was not the piece I hid that day).

Me Hiding Art Among The Flowers
Me Hiding Art Among The Flowers

By coincidence, Stacie’s son found the piece of art I hid among the flowers! Having already received a piece of art as part of the project, Stacie and her son decided to pass this one on, which is a lovely community minded thing to do. Stacie’s son travelled to the USA later that day and he took the art with him. It now resides somewhere near Simsbury Connecticut, and that has to be the longest distance this free art project has travelled so far.

 

Map My Art : Can You Help?

I’ve painted quite often since I last posted here, and I’ll get round to sharing more recent work soon. Whilst painting I’ve been thinking more and more about where my art is, geographically. I’m in the process of trying to map my art. I’ve set up a page on Google Maps where I can record the various locations of my art around the world. It’s a work in progress, here’s where I have got to so far.

If you have some of my art, please get in touch and tell me the country/town/city where the art is, and I’ll update my records. Coincidentally, here’s a doodle of where some hidden treasure is buried. I sketched this years ago and came upon it again while setting up the map project.

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River Wandle

On a recent stroll along a section of the River Wandle, I spied a kingfisher. I’ve been fortunate to see a few of these beautiful birds in the last few months – and this time we sat and watched each other for a few minutes. When I got home I wanted to capture a sense of the river, so I mixed up some shades of blue and green acrylic paint and got some A4 rough texture water colour paper ready.

I made a finger painting as I thought about how I wanted to represent the river, then I divided a sheet of paper into a rectangular pattern and using brushes this time, randomly applied the shades I had mixed.

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River Wandle

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These works have now been sold, with a portion of the sale going to support the excellent work done by Arts Emergency. I really enjoyed painting these.