MK Gallery; Saul Leiter

Milton Keynes may feel like it could be a cultural moonscape, but they have a thriving theatre, a lively shopping centre, and a great art gallery called MK.I took my mother with me to see an exhibition of work by Saul Leiter, who was a fashion photographer and painter, who died in 2013. The photographs…

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Exhibition in Rutland County Museum

Many of my friends have put work into the exhibition held in the Rutland county museum, which is sponsored by arts for rutland. This year I entered 3 pieces and was chuffed to receive an “honorary” mention for one of them. It got me thinking about local art and the importance of it. Being in…

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Silver Gilt RHS medal at Chelsea Flower Show 2023

Garden rooms can be offices, playrooms, teenage dens, start up spaces, art studios, music studios, outside kitchens, workshops or places for craft and mucking about. All are relevant, all have great use in the management of mental health and wellbeing. After all, everybody needs a space to do their “thing”. Recently, I designed a garden…

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Solo Exhibition in Four Walls Gallery …

Following a period of unemployment, I gathered up my courage, and held my first solo show in Four Walls in Melton Mowbray. Alongside my graphic design work I have always painted, but had never fully focussed on it before, I set myself a timescale to produce a series of work within and see how it…

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