David Hockney lectures at the Courtauld Institute London

While I'm always a fan of an eccentric character (especially one who wears flamboyant braces and a flatcap) I've never been won over by Hockneys work. After his speech at the Courtauld yesterday evening though, I'm a convert to his way of thinking at least.

His latest musings confront issues of perspective that I hadn't even realised were there.
He took as his example a film of a road, which ordinarily shows just one point perspective that is completely unrealistic to life. His new films use several cameras at once , advancing down the road, each recording a slightly different view of the trees and passing objects. This mimics how the human eye captures all kinds of different views and perspectives even when we're not aware of it. Peripheral vision I suppose.

and sold this Painting!

A pretty successful Christmas...finally made and sold my Lewes-themed Christmas cards

latest work

These are a couple of works in progress. Etchings of Lewes castle and Bonfire Night that hopefully I'll get round to making into cards.

Since the summer I have worked with the photographer Peter Whyte www.whytephotography.com
and also as a volunteer in the educations department at De La Warr Pavilion gallery in bexhill.

I have also just sold my first photograph! (see below)

The second show was of sussex-based student photographer Natalie aka Miss Aniela. A portrait artist who creates clever clone portraits of her alter-ego. Her show 'Neurotica' was a great success and it was great to meet a young artist who is doing so well.
her work can be seen at http://www.missaniela.com/

Update

Here's a bit of an update on some of the work I've been doing.
Over the summer I worked with the Impure Art Gallery in Brighton assisting with two shows. The first was an exhibition in Covent Garden of photographs of a 20 year old Madonna from 1979 photographed by a then unknown Martin Schreiber. She was paid just $30 dollars for the shoot! The show included a print of the one off polariod test shot that was selling for £40,000. Needless to say protective gloves had to be worn at all times while hanging these works!