The image began as a photograph of this familiar record shop in Broomhill in Sheffield, that I then cropped and further changed using a vector-tracing filter to alter the overall effect.

I’ve been working on this painting for a couple of weeks and this is the final version. I wanted to try out acrylic paint because of the quick dry quality.

This one of several detailed pencil drawings that I did in and around St Just, Cornwall during the early 1980’s. It seems a very long time ago now.

The sunlight in this early evening view from the Don Valley in Sheffield casts it’s light upon the Mosque

Just to set the visual scene….. I took a couple of photos yesterday that have spurred me to choose the particular O’Keeffe image above.

Ok. So I’m thinking of the written title that may go along the bottom edge and I think that I’ll tie it in with this photo:-

Following on from the Church and the Mosque images that I worked on and posted on Twitter,

100% re-cycled cold frame. All light stripes completely natural. No Photoshop has been used in the creating of this product:)

Fig 1 “Church and Mosque: Don Valley”, Photograph, Canon 1d mkiii with 28-300mm telephoto

Ask me why but I’m not sure I can really answer. Something about the triumph of function over form at one level, but it is something more than that.

The photo shows some visitors to the Berlin Zoo looking at and taking photos of a female lion. She doesn’t look very happy and in fact in the photo is “roaring”.

This is my first visit to Berlin and I guess new cities are always difficult to negotiate.

My son Dan doing some Sturridge dancing around the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Not sure Alber Speer would approve……⚽️⚽️?

I really like these “upcycled” bags on a stall in a market in Berlin. They are a bit pricy at E35:00 upwards, but they are all bespoke individual pieces.

Dreamcatcher

Well I got rid of the white space and then had it working ok on the banner at the top.

Just been rooting through my old paintings for one that fits with this idea. Sheds, gardens, ramshakle structures etc.

The great thing about a blog as opposed to Facebook for instance, is it being implicit that a more opinion based diary content is expressed.

Went on a pleasant walk around Chatsworth today and saw this sculpture