Mirror, mirror...

A busy few weeks, holidays, Art in the Pen and still endless mosaic.
On our hols to Glen Farg in Scotland, just North of Edinburgh we had a few trips out to Dunfermline (lovely), Edinburgh (huge!) and Glasgow (disappointing). We had gone to Glasgow for the Gallery of Modern Art which we had been to years ago and I had loved. After a long drive, subway journey and a walk we found the gallery and it was as great from the outside as I remembered. Unfortunatly I was so disappointed by the content. Despite this we did enjoy the actual building itself from the beautiful stained glass windows...



...to the inspired mirrored walls in the entrance way.





As we returned to the subway and the car we passed another enormous mirror effect, this time a big mirrored glass building reflecting the older buildings opposite. So not an entire dead loss after all.

Fame and Fortune! Well fame anyway!

See Petri from all angles on the Leeds Today programme, an online news show that recorded me (!) and Petri in a short interview earlier this month. I'm quite pleased with the end result as it shows quite a lot of my work but also shows a guided tour of my rubbish in the dining room!! Not quite what I had imagined. Oh well anyone that knows me will have seen the mess in there anyway.



http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/sites/leedstoday/FEATURES/Pages/Skipton(0408).aspx

Busy, busy, busy

It has been a very busy weekend! First of all, on Saturday i did my first Art's Market which I really enjoyed despite the slow trade. Held in the rather attractive Riddings Hall in Ilkley, it was so nice being in the company of other artists and seeing the lovely things they had to sell. It's just difficult to hold on to any profit made when there are so many nice things to spend it all on!




Today has been hectic, driving to Liverpool to visit mum in hospital. Before it was visiting time though Emily and I went to visit the Metropolitan Cathedral to look at the breath taking stained glass there.



From the outside it is pretty spectacular but inside it is just amazing!



The colours are so vibrant and I love the abstract coloured panels.





There were some fantastic wall panels outide too with great textured sections in the concrete.

TV Interview!

Wow! What can I say? I was contacted today to do an interview for a Tv programme to be hosted on the internet. The show is called Leeds Today and will be launched in about two weeks timeI have never done any kind of TV interview before so it was just a tad nerve inducing.
Anyway it all went well, I got chance to plug the sheep, my artwork and you never know I may even get a mention of my website.

Stop the Press!

There we are, Petri and I are in print at last! It's all quite exciting really. The report appears to have gone for the family angle in particular and mentions some of my influences but unfortunatly doesn't mention that I am an artist or give any references for my business or website! Oh well, I'll have to get that in to Horsforth Life!

To view the article follow the evening post link at the side of the page.



Photographs taken by Tony Johnson Yorkshire Evening Post

Fame!

Now that Petri is finished I thought it was probably time to get in touch with the local press so that we could get some publicity through him. That is why this morning I was having to pose like I was painting the sheep, leaning on the sheep...



...even with the cat on top of the sheep!!


Thomas the cat always has to be centre of attention!

If anyone is interested the article will be in the Yorkshire Evening Post tomorrow (14.7.10). It will also appear in the Wharfe Valley Times and Horforth Life!

The finished article!

Looking rather handsome and shiny here he is Petri the Sheep is complete.