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  • Peter Smith – Enigmatic, stylish artist & leader of the ‘Impossimal’ characters

    Just who is Peter Smith?

    The enigmatic, stylish artist & leader of the ‘Impossimal’ characters that he paints, Peter has always been a mystery to us, how does one man paint such fantasmagorical pictures?


    Photo of the artist

    In future posts we will attempt to delve into the mind of this most talented of naive artists, love and emotion clearly are a driving force for his work, stay tuned as we look to explore and uncover the mystery that is Peter Smith


    Brand new brochure for the latest tour ‘Its A Stripe Thing’

    thank you

    Steve

    Links
    Association of British Naïve Artists

  • National Portrait Gallery – ‘ideath’ Painting of a girl on her iPod wins BP Visitor’s Choice Award 2010

    A picture of a girl on her iPod has become the annual winner of this prestigious prize sponsored by BP. The piece was taken from the ‘Visitor’s Choice’ exhibition that has been on display in the gallery.


    ‘ideath’ painting by Michal Ozibko

    Interestingly this was voted on by people actually visiting the museum, not by some ‘panel of experts’ as so often is the case & visitors where able to vote via a touch screen monitor outside the exhibition – new for the 2010 competition.

    Michal Ozibko, a Czechoslovakian born painter, produced a major piece measuring 65 inches across by 86 inches height & called ‘ideath.’ Nearly 26,000 visitors to the National Portrait Gallery voted & ‘ideath’ received over 15% of those, scooping the BP sponsored Portrait Award for 2010.

    You can see the voting results on the Gallery’s website on the links section

    Thank you

    Jessica

    Links:
    National Portrait Gallery

    Daily Telegraph’s coverage

    The Guardian’s coverage

  • LBC London 97.3 FM, Rolf Harris drops it to meet Steve Allen

    Legendary Australian painter Rolf Harris could recently be heard on London’s airwaves as he popped in to talk to another legend, London’s own sharped tongued DJ Steve Allen

    For some who is by now collecting his pension, Steve Allen, I mean Rolf Harris 🙂 certainly is looking very spritely and is appearing all over the place, from gallery events to media appearances

    Wobble board always in tow!

    thanks

    James

    Links:
    LBC’s page on the meeting

  • Doug Hyde News – Sneak peak of one of his upcoming Limited Edition releases

    A super quickie today, we wanted to bring you a sneak peak of one of the latest Doug Hyde new releases which are being released within the first 2 weeks of September 2010:


    Happy Campers by Doug Hyde
    (limited edition on paper)

    The title is yet unknown however it loveable image of one of Doug’s characters in a tent, with his trusted dog asleep next to him and a lantern throwing light on them, a wonderful piece

    thank you

    James

    Links:
    How to go camping
    Find a UK campsite