Once again - it has been a while since I wrote anything here! What can I say? - I have been busy, honest!,..... same old same old!!
Summer is becoming a distant memory now, not that I saw too much of it, and my studio is getting distinctly frigid again. (All very well having a north facing studio - constant light and all that, but the fact the sun never shines on my windows here at the back of the house does mean a lack of solar warmth come the winter months, and multiple layers of fleecy clothing become essential). But during the warmer months from May through into October I was busy and completed 15 small oil paintings as illustrations for the re-print of an old Gomer favourite 'Hosan Nadolig'. The book, as it's title meaning 'Christmas Stocking' suggests, is a wonderfully varied collection of stories all with a Christmas theme, full of great images for me to depict - robins, angels, fairies, puddings, presents, the fat guy with the white beard, Christmas trees, and of course the Nativity too.
It is funny that I can now fit those fifteen paintings - the endeavours of what is basically half a year - side by side onto my coffee table, with room to spare, but that said I am pleased with the results and I think a very handsome book is the result.
