Painting Inoils

Aldo’s South Africa Exhibition

inoils — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:41:37 +0000

And talking of friends, I have been meaning to post the link to the TV news report on Aldo’s recent highly successful exhibition at the Chistopher Moller gallery in Cape Town. The report can be viewed here

Incidentally, Aldo is doing a 5 day figure paintings workshop near Carcassonne sometime between 31st March and 7th April. More details are on his blog here

Cork Street Pete

inoils — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:26:49 +0000

My friend Peter Brown (“Pete the Street”) has a new show running from 22nd February to 10th March at Messums gallery in Cork Street.

If you are in central London you really must try to get to see this – Cork Street is only 5 minutes walk from Piccadily or Oxford Street and Messums really is an excellent and very friendly gallery.

You can see the collection of new works that are to be exhibited here - and note the red spots that are not surprisingly already starting to appear!

Winchester College – Back on Canvas

inoils — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:27:57 +0000

I am flying back to the UK next weekend for the annual Commoners vs OTH Winchester College Football (“Winkies”) match.

This is one of the paintings I did of the match 3 years ago and I am hoping for some sun next weekend as I start to paint pictures for my next Winchester exhibition in March 2013.

La Mesure

inoils — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:56:55 +0000

Revel Christmas Exhibition

inoils — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:28:20 +0000

I am delighted that Madame Maury has kindly asked me to exhibit my paintings of Revel in her fabulous antiques shop over Christmas.

Madame Maury’s shop is at the bottom of this arcade on the right.

PS You may be interested to know that I have finally updated my web site at www.inoils.com

To Frame or not to Frame

inoils — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:28:19 +0000

Nowadays I normally feel that my paintings are generally better hung unframed so as to avoid the light and atmosphere that is the main focus of most of my pictures being constrained by a physical border.
However, as part of my current joint exhibition, the Barnes Riverside Gallery has kindly put some of their fabulous frames on a couple of my paintings – and I have to say that I think that they really work!
The exhibition runs until 14th December.

London Exhibition 18th November – 14th December

inoils — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:22:45 +0000

Le Voix du Midi

inoils — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:47:28 +0000

Edward Henry Potthast

inoils — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:11:21 +0000

Why is it that some of the greatest paintings were painted between 1910 and 1920 when surely most people’s thoughts would have been on horrors and sadness of the First World War?

Was it because of the advances in photography or development of better paints, most notably the cadmiums?

Edward Henry Potthast is an artist that I keep stumbling upon and keep meaning to look into more.

Potthast was born in Ohio, USA in 1857 and died in his New York studio in 1927.

He is renowned for his beach paintings which have a lot of similarities to those of Joaquin Sorolla who was living at a very similar time (1860-1923).

Potthast’s paintings can be seen here

Covent Garden Painting

inoils — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:23:49 +0000

This is a painting of Covent Garden for my exhibition at the Barnes Riverside Gallery in London in November.