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17th Nov 2012 ... Open House at Christmas
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.
INSTEAD we are showing with our daughter Shyama at her house a mile away.
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.
Here are the details.
INSTEAD we are showing with our daughter Shyama at her house a mile away.
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.
Here are the details.
10 November 2012 ... from the past
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.
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.
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.
Take note artists when signing your work ... create a legible and unique signature.
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.
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.
Just a quickie. I have been rather busy since the Spring doing a series of exhibitions all about our 2012 London Art project.
But it is all over now...phew!
So I am now writing it all up into a seminar presentation for the Fine Art Trade Guild.
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.
Note to self....put off the procrastination until later. Get on with it.
But it is all over now...phew!
So I am now writing it all up into a seminar presentation for the Fine Art Trade Guild.
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.
Note to self....put off the procrastination until later. Get on with it.
Latest news about 2012 London Art
Latest
news.
Two
different '2012 London Art' exhibitions showing new paintings and prints by
Colin Ruffell and Fran Slade are happening right now!
Picturesque
art gallery in Billericay in Essex, and Frontispiece gallery in Canary Wharf
London are in full swing. Another gallery show in Islington has just ended, and
we have two more starting later this month. Phew!
The
galleries are showing framed originals on canvas from £7500 down to £125. Plus limited edition and
signed edition prints.
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.
Luckily I
have also been painting some small ones recently. These have been great fun to
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.
And of
course we continue to make signed edition prints of suitable new work, which
means that there are still many opportunities to collect at very affordable
prices.
If by
chance, you are that rich banker with an empty spot in your boardroom, then
please get in touch.
The 2012 London Art website can be seen here; www.2012londonart.com
30 Jan 2012 ... New painting finished!
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.
My new painting, and the print, is formed from two square images that are designed to be displayed next to each other.
We will publish this as a Collectors Edition so that the image can be licensed for use as a card etc.
My new painting, and the print, is formed from two square images that are designed to be displayed next to each other.
We will publish this as a Collectors Edition so that the image can be licensed for use as a card etc.
26 JAN 2012 Our new book.
Our upcoming series of 2012 art exhibitions called '2012 London Art' has inspired a coffee table book.
Here it is...
You can click this link and get a preview of all the content.
http://www.blurb.com/books/2854255
Please check it out and tell us what you think.
Thanks
Here it is...
You can click this link and get a preview of all the content.
http://www.blurb.com/books/2854255
Please check it out and tell us what you think.
Thanks
I've been busy!
We really have been busy over the Christmas and New year holiday period. But now to reveal all!
Fran and I, are arranging a series of shows in our retail gallery partners during 2012.
It is called.....drumroll please....
Here is a link to a page showing Fran's Cockney Characters.
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.
It is nearly finished. watch this space to see it unveiled very soon.
Fran and I, are arranging a series of shows in our retail gallery partners during 2012.
It is called.....drumroll please....
2012 LONDON ART
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 characters.Here is a link to a page showing Fran's Cockney Characters.
And this just one of them. He is a Chelsea Pensioner.
It is nearly finished. watch this space to see it unveiled very soon.
The first gallery to host our show will be;
'The Only Place for Pictures' in Islington.
The first exhibition kicks off mid February. More later.
18Nov2011
Last minute nerves and a classic mistake, And I made it!
My post here yesterday was about the final nerve-wracking 48 hours before our imminent Artists Open House show.
I also sent about 3000 emails to our list.
But on some of the emails I forgot to include WHERE we are holding the show.
I mean, I ask you...Ye Gods and little fishes...what a classic blunder.
So here is a nice photo of our house and the address.
This WHERE our Artists Open House is starting tomorrow at 11am.
Address is: 182 Springfield Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 6DG.
I hope to see you here.
Last minute nerves and a classic mistake, And I made it!
My post here yesterday was about the final nerve-wracking 48 hours before our imminent Artists Open House show.
I also sent about 3000 emails to our list.
But on some of the emails I forgot to include WHERE we are holding the show.
I mean, I ask you...Ye Gods and little fishes...what a classic blunder.
So here is a nice photo of our house and the address.
This WHERE our Artists Open House is starting tomorrow at 11am.
Address is: 182 Springfield Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 6DG.
I hope to see you here.
Organized panic at Artists Open House venue!
You can see from the photo that we are not yet ready.
We open 48 hours from now at 11am on Saturday 19th
November.
However, here is our check list to show that all will be
well.
·
Xmas tree, lights. CHECK
·
Fire, coal, logs, clean chimney. CHECK
·
Mulled wine ingredients, Merlot, juice, spices,
large simmering pot with lid, glasses. CHECK
·
Prize draw entry cards, prizes. CHECK
·
Credit card terminal, paper rolls, phone line. CHECK
·
Furniture out and stored, furniture moved
around. CHECK
·
Light track, spotlights, power. CHECK
·
Hanging system, picture hooks, string, screw-eyes.
CHECK
·
Card rack, print browsers. CHECK
·
Signs, bunting, OPEN flag. CHECK
·
Gift tags, bookmarks, Xmas cards. CHECK
·
Guest artists organised. CHECK
·
Music system to play soothing background sounds
and calm my nerves. CHECK
So, all we have got to do is….. HANG THE PICTURES, PRINT
LABELS, MAKE PRICE LISTS….ETC ETC
We are open Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th from
11am until 6pm.
Then again on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th
from 11am until 6pm.
Then again on Saturday 3rd December and Sunday 4th
December from 11am until 6pm.
We hope to see you here.
Gotta go now … a few things to do.
Cheers
25 Oct 2011 Pablo's birthday.
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno MarÃa de los Remedios Cipriano de la SantÃsima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
25 October 1881 to 8 April 1973 (aged 91)
My hero!
25 October 1881 to 8 April 1973 (aged 91)
My hero!
24 Oct 2011 Chainsaw massacre!
There was a bit of noise at the bottom of the garden yesterday. We had been warned that British Rail were going to trim the vegetation on the railway embankment. Then up pops this guy and cuts down several big trees.
Well it has improved the view and allowed more sunlight onto the veggy patch [and wasp nest].
Well it has improved the view and allowed more sunlight onto the veggy patch [and wasp nest].
23 OCT 11 ...WASP RETRIBUTION TIME!
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.
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!
So we've been researching the problem. And, the wasps have got to go.
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.
This morning we can see that there are a few survivors still going in and out of the nest. But only a few.
Beware remaining wasps...I am tempted to call in a NATO strike force if you don't leave peacefully.
22 October 2011 Happy birthday.
Yesterday was the birthday of Hokusai (October 21, 1760) He was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
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.
20 Oct 2011 Temple Gardens
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.
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.
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.
19 Oct 2011
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nine Eleven
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.
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!
21 Aug 2011 Trevor the Black Cat has his own page!
New page devoted to Trevor the Cat pictures with links to prints and cards.
Here is a bite from my website where I have just published a page devoted to Trevor the Black Cat images. http://www.colinruffell.com/trevor.htm
14 August 2011 Two new paintings
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.
14 August 2011
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.
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