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Galapagos: all the fun of the fish market
Read moreThere is so much fun to be had watching wildlife at the fish market in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galapagos: pelicans, sea lions, frigatebirds.
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Painting British Rock Music
Read moreMy British Rock Music painting is pure Pop Art! My life has always been accompanied by music, much of it…
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Robert FitzRoy: Captain Fantastic
Read moreEveryone knows what a weather forecast is, most people have heard of Charles Darwin’s Voyage of HMS Beagle, and most British people have heard of the shipping forecast. So it’s very sad to think that more people don’t know about Robert FitzRoy who made all these things possible.
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How I made my painting of the shipping forecast
Read moreDiscover how I made my painting of the UK shipping forecast, ‘Attention All Shipping’ in this blog which includes lots of photos of the work in progress.
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Shipping forecast wins award!
Read moreTo my utter surprise and delight, my shipping forecast painting, ‘Attention All Shipping’ has won a British Cartographic Society award!
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The Eynsham tea towel
Read moreA 100% cotton souvenir tea towel of Eynsham, a beautiful village in west Oxfordshire, designed in Eynsham and made in Britain.
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The death of Jane Digby – 11 August 1881
1 CommentRead moreHere’s a bodice-ripping love story of sex and adventure: the story of Jane Elizabeth Digby, Lady Ellenborough. She died on…
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The death of Frida Kahlo – 13 July 1954
1 CommentRead more“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Artist Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, the daughter of Hungarian Jewish father and indigenous Mexican mother….
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The Shakespeare triptych
Read moreThree paintings in praise of Shakespeare: 1 a map of Europe with the plays shown in their approximate location, 2.…
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Vincent van Gogh mutilates his ear – 23 December 1888
Read moreOn this day in 1888 in Arles in southern France, Vincent van Gogh performed the most infamous act of self-mutilation…
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