Month: Mar 2024
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New painting and L.S. Lowry
“You don’t need brains to be a painter, just feelings”. L.S. Lowry I’ve long admired L.S. Lowry’s paintings. He is widely known for his mill scenes and industrial landscapes. However, later on in his career Lowry turned his attention to vast empty landscapes, including desolate views of lakes and seascapes. It’s these paintings and drawings…
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Self portrait at Bethlem Museum of the Mind
In December last year, I delivered a self portrait painted in 2021 to the collection of the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, where it is on loan for two years. Bethlem Museum of the Mind has a fascinating archive and art collection focusing on the history of Bethlem Royal Hospital, infamous as the ‘Bedlam’ which…