tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46807907606722702192024-03-05T21:05:39.073+00:00Colin Ruffell - full-time working artistIt is a great life being an artist! This record is written by established professional artist Colin Ruffell, showing what the life of an artist is like.Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-15164725729579192282014-01-27T09:01:00.001+00:002014-01-27T09:01:44.409+00:00ARTFINDER: RIVER THAMES SUNSET by Colin Ruffell - Another look at River Thames Sunset which is av...<a href="https://www.artfinder.com/product/river-thames-sunset-461/">ARTFINDER: RIVER THAMES SUNSET by Colin Ruffell - Another look at River Thames Sunset which is av...</a>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-30528891524044856702012-11-17T09:18:00.000+00:002012-11-17T09:18:23.909+00:0017th Nov 2012 ... Open House at Christmas<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17th Nov 2012 ... Artists Open House at Christmas this year will of course be another must see event, BUT this year we are not opening here in Springfield Road.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">INSTEAD we are showing with our daughter Shyama at her house a mile away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has always shown her paintings, prints, and cards here with us, but now she is opening for the first time and we are showing our paintings, prints, and cards at her house.</span><br />
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<br />Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-52168741437678164412012-11-10T14:03:00.001+00:002012-11-10T14:03:36.169+00:0010 November 2012 ... from the past<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had another email from yet another collector who bought my paintings many years ago. It is always wonderful to get these kind of messages, I guess that they come in about once a month as people use the internet to search on my name. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing that is surprising is that people can read my signature enough to use it to make a Google search. When I painted and signed the originals mentioned in this latest query I certainly didn't realise that there would be such wonders as a Google search 35 years later. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two kitchen paintings have travelled from Grappenhall which lies halfway between Liverpool and Manchester in the UK, to the USA where the owners now live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take note artists when signing your work ... create a legible and unique signature.</span><br />
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But it is all over now...phew!<br />
So I am now writing it all up into a seminar presentation for the Fine Art Trade Guild.<br />
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Oh yes. Since the previous blog, I joined the Skylark Gallery cooperative on the South Bank near Oxo Tower. We had an incredibly busy Summer with the Olympics and Jubilee. More later.<br />
Note to self....put off the procrastination until later. Get on with it.Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-55327396049662227312012-04-07T15:35:00.000+01:002012-04-07T15:35:43.722+01:00Latest news about 2012 London Art<br />
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different '2012 London Art' exhibitions showing new paintings and prints by
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Canary
Wharf there is a whopping diptych that would look rather splendid in someone's
boardroom if I say so myself. It comprises of a pair of adjoining original
paintings, five foot across, and will cost a keen corporate investor £11,250. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily I
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make using an impressionist loose-paint language. And hopefully these new
originals are good value and much more affordable at £125 to £500 depending on size.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2012 London Art website can be seen here; <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1626186983"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.2012londonart.com/">www.2012londonart.com</a></span></div>
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<br /></div>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-84678512510004897032012-01-30T10:21:00.000+00:002012-01-30T10:21:02.621+00:0030 Jan 2012 ... New painting finished!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Shard is London's newest and tallest building yet to grace the stunning City skyline. The Shard is due to be finished in May. I have painted the view showing the unfinished building under construction with the crane on top. What a view that crane driver must have had. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My new painting, and the print, is formed from two square images that are designed to be displayed next to each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will publish this as a Collectors Edition so that the image can be licensed for use as a card etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-53128879696496168162012-01-23T14:55:00.000+00:002012-01-23T14:55:10.345+00:00I've been busy!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We really have been busy over the Christmas and New year holiday period. But now to reveal all!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fran and I, are arranging a series of shows in our retail gallery partners during 2012. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is called.....drumroll please....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibitions are all about our London based art. That is paintings, prints and cards with a London theme. I guess that most of my readers already know that Cityscapes of London are among my favourite subjects. But did you also know that my wife Fran Slade has also created a collection of portraits showing London costermongers, market traders, eccentrics and other cockney </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">character</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile I have been painting some new London views. The biggest is a whopping 5 feet by 2ft 6ins. It shows the building of Londons latest skyscraper, The Shard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is nearly finished. watch this space to see it unveiled very soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first exhibition kicks off mid February. More later.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last minute nerves and a classic mistake, And I made it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My post here yesterday was about the final nerve-wracking 48 hours before our imminent Artists Open House show.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also sent about 3000 emails to our list.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But on some of the emails I forgot to include <b>WHERE</b> we are holding the show.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, I ask you...Ye Gods and little fishes...what a classic blunder.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here is a nice photo of our house and the address.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address is: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><u>182 Springfield Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 6DG.</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope to see you here.</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-38439509180199680232011-11-17T12:52:00.001+00:002011-11-17T12:56:48.608+00:00Organized panic at Artists Open House venue!<br />
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large simmering pot with lid, glasses. <b><span style="color: red;">CHECK</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and calm my nerves.<b> <span style="color: red;">CHECK</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cheers</span><o:p></o:p></div>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-63342782284477875332011-10-25T09:47:00.000+01:002011-10-25T09:47:05.043+01:0025 Oct 2011 Pablo's birthday.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"></sup></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it has improved the view and allowed more sunlight onto the veggy patch [and wasp nest].</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-49597350700475731132011-10-23T15:51:00.001+01:002011-10-23T15:51:22.009+01:0023 OCT 11 ...WASP RETRIBUTION TIME!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had built a bug house near the vegetable patch to attract friendly bugs and bumble bees for pollination [a symbiotic relationship]. All had been going well before some wasps misunderstood the crucial landlady/tenant arrangement. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few days ago Fran was picking leaves from our salad bed for lunch when she was attacked by a swarm of angry wasps. She was stung on the eye and arm and in her hair. Not nice! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Late last night after wasp beddy-bye time I donned several layers of protective clothing and armed with an anti-wasp aerosol I sprayed the wasp nest with foam. I might look a bit silly but I am not macho-stupid.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning we can see that there are a few survivors still going in and out of the nest. But only a few.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beware remaining wasps...I am tempted to call in a NATO strike force if you don't leave peacefully.</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-58186531647870479572011-10-22T10:25:00.000+01:002011-10-22T10:25:20.323+01:0022 October 2011 Happy birthday.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Yesterday was the birthday of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Hokusai (October 21, 1760) He was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I saw this picture I was reminded of a visit to Tokyo where I saw Mt Fuji from my hotel room window first thing in the morning. Heat haze meant that it vanished by breakfast.</span></span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-48697020717187961702011-10-20T19:27:00.000+01:002011-10-20T19:27:15.568+01:0020 Oct 2011 Temple Gardens<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was in London today arranging more future exhibitions in galleries. Afterwards I walked down to the Thames Embankment and visited the small park where I sold my first painting 53 years ago. Lovely weather and memories.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The show was the annual open air exhibition in Temple Gardens. They stopped running the event a long while ago. I didn't realise until today that the spot where I sold the painting must have been in the shadow of Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment.</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-66187024029155250972011-10-19T08:52:00.000+01:002011-10-19T08:52:55.639+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">19 Oct 2011</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see that a new Turner exhibition is scheduled for Adelaide in South Australia in February 2013. Turner remains a special hero of mine. Maybe I can arrange a trip to OZ. It would be summer time down there while it will be horrible here.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wishful thinking of course. Especially frivolous considering the fact that there is such a super show of Turners on continual display at the Tate in London. So self-administer a slap on the wrist for not going to the Tate enough.</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-89327651309818786102011-09-11T10:54:00.001+01:002011-09-11T10:54:51.663+01:00Nine Eleven<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today the news is full of the New York Twin Towers ten years ago. I remember it well. On Sept 11th 2001 I awoke in the very early hours in great pain. My wife Fran called the medical emergency service and they sent an ambulance which whisked me off to hospital. Several hours later we got an all clear regarding the suspected heart attack. So we came to home to rest. The terrible news from NY just started to come in as I dropped off to sleep. Fran woke me after just 15 minutes and we were glued to the TV for hours. My trouble turned out to be a gallstone. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like many of you, we can remember visits to NY and a trip to the top of one of the towers. We did it in the1990's. Here is a photo of an unpublished painting that I did after when we came home after the trip, and before nine-eleven. I don't know who bought the original or where it is!</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-84333928364595874272011-08-21T17:52:00.000+01:002011-08-21T17:52:07.465+01:0021 Aug 2011 Trevor the Black Cat has his own page!<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">New page devoted to Trevor the Cat pictures with links to prints and cards.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a bite from my website where I have just published a page devoted to Trevor the Black Cat images. <a href="http://www.colinruffell.com/trevor.htm">http://www.colinruffell.com/trevor.htm</a></span><br />
Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-82403266865106359332011-08-14T17:20:00.000+01:002011-08-14T17:20:36.215+01:0014 August 2011 Two new paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgam0lPNWenkewz1Tof6tW0hQj-OMFt1sUqOprayw9TSFQ2XlvVYPKBx9WKzzphFl-vXKfqHQWADoZLXrliQzRkB__zUqwY5p92F7P6sTp16YCj2YowRgcYUKbqrN1lbpybk9dy0m-HpAo/s1600/BIG+BEN+AUG11+495.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgam0lPNWenkewz1Tof6tW0hQj-OMFt1sUqOprayw9TSFQ2XlvVYPKBx9WKzzphFl-vXKfqHQWADoZLXrliQzRkB__zUqwY5p92F7P6sTp16YCj2YowRgcYUKbqrN1lbpybk9dy0m-HpAo/s320/BIG+BEN+AUG11+495.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a couple of paintings just finished today. Probably still wet as I write this. First is a commission for a gallery in Norfolk to replace a similar painting that someone was interested in. Titled...'Big Ben Aug11'.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second is 'Departure Dawn' showing Tower Bridge open with sailing boat exiting downstream. I am submitting this one for the Battle Art Fair next month.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">I received a letter yesterday addressed to Colin Ruffell F.R.S.A. !!! I am now a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Wow. I really don't know what to make of this yet. The Groucho Marx quote..."I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member" springs to mind.</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-30585999428727260732011-08-01T15:50:00.000+01:002011-08-01T15:50:37.388+01:001 August 2011 New stuff!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My latest painting [and print] is titled <b>'City of London'. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus I have created a page devoted to my London paintings and prints. There are over 100 now.</span><br />
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</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4680790760672270219.post-31038420731503041342011-05-01T12:32:00.000+01:002011-05-01T12:32:34.996+01:001 May 2011. New book...'Brighton' by Colin Ruffell<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just finished editing and have now published a new 21 page paperback book in full colour titled 'Brighton'. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has 20 colour plates showing my original paintings of Brighton and over a dozen other photographs about the process and biography stuff. All the paintings shown in the book are published by us as signed prints on paper or canvas. Some of them are also greetings cards. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new book should be available on Amazon as well! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have ordered a few copies to sign and have here for the 1st Open House weekend in 7 days time. Lets hope that they arrive in time.</span>Colin Ruffellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807317762770922475noreply@blogger.com0