Another six works for the Fundraising Auction for Brisons Veor - the wonderful artists residency perched on the very tip of Cape Cornwall and undergoing a much needed renovation and upgrade - to see it fit for the predations of climate! As with previous posts find something you like the look of and sent me a bid to: [email protected]. But remember bids close at Midnight (GMT) on 22 March 2026.

Sophia Hetherington Our longest serving Trustee Sophia often works onsite during Trustee visits. Her acute observational pieces and thoughtful approach make her works such a delight.  This example is Cliffs -Brisons Veor 2024 mixed media on paper. Framed 380 x 480 mm. Reserve of £50 bids to my mail:  [email protected]. - reminder the auction runs till 22 March (26) @ midnight GMT…

Jackie Berridge Jackie was the guiding light behind Harrington Mill Studios where I spent a number of wonderful years.  I owe her a lot for that and now for this jewel of a work.  Jackie has a very successful career as a painter and is very collectable - this is a great opportunity to acquire a piece  Landscape with Puppy…

Oliver Raymond Barker Oliver is a recent visitor to Brisons and a widely exhibited photographer whose work whispers subtle variations in nature and uses a variety of technical processes, he studied in Birmingham (like myself) and lectures at Falmouth (another connection).  His offer is from The Anatomy of Stone series 6. A3 Giclee/Inkjet print. Framed dimensions 260 x 345 mm. (Edition of 10). 

Sarah Humby Dorset based Sarah is - like myself - a fellow Falmouth graduate (a long time after me!) and ex Brisons resident. She is one half of The Art Of Staring Out To Sea with fellow artist Jane Soakell. This (framed) monotype printed with oil based inks onto Fabriano Rosaspina printmaking paper directly from an image made on a perspex plate above Priests Cove on the is an excellent and appropriate piece for this auction.

Stuart Reid Stuart studied at Falmouth with me at the beginning of the 1970’s and shares a passion with me for the far west of the county. However much of his recent painting is inspired by Dorset and other visited locations. This work was exhibited at the Chelsea Arts Club Summer Exhibition 2022. Katsiki 2021 200 x 200 x 20mm. oil on canvas Framed 270 x270 x 37mm.

see details on previous blog page... Sarah Granville Sarah is a Cotswold based artist who was a resident at Brisons back in 2021. She exhibits regularly in the South Midlands with her first solo show at The Setting Gallery in Nailsworth last year and a two person exhibition opening in Cheltenham this March. Like many Brisons residents Sarah was drawn to the iconic hut that sits on Priest’s Cove below the Cape and her particularly sensitive etching of it is on offer.

In another life I am part of the Trust that runs this wonderful building on the far tip of Cape Cornwall, in West Penwith - Brisons Veor. It's a magical place that looks out across the Atlantic to the west and down past Sennen & Lands End to the south. We are currently fundraising to renovate the interior, particularly upgrading the environmental aspects of the property that is offered to professional creatives at highly subsidised fees, and running an auction of works by previous residents and other supporters.

Implicitus Silvis, mixed media on cardboard, c. 140 x 132 cms. 2025 Earlier this year I began clarting* together cardboard packaging that - in the way of it nowadays - there’s plenty of in this house.  I had decided to push the Hortus Conclusus paintings into something more rural in conception and more provisional in construction.  Partly at the behest of the…

Bouziès Boats...by John Hoyland Following on from my last post something a little lighter (and back to painting) from my recent jolly to the East Coast. We were staying in a lovely property nestled deep in the Suffolk countryside (roughly half way from Framlingham to Saxmundham) and our bedroom had a better class of artwork (or image thereof) than is often the case.

Unless you have stumbled across this by accident you expect me to ramble on about painting but today I need to rant...and whilst it connects to the subject, feel free to ignore! Derby's Cavendish Building reported cost £75 million I recently spent some time listening to a report on job losses at a Midlands University (it will remain unnamed).  Quite a few others also seem to be at it. 

Pleasant Country Aspect no. 40 Drayton oil on canvas board 30 x 40 cm. 2025 If you're a regular reader you'll know about the ongoing project that was called The Heart Of Rural England. This began in 2009 with From The Earth Wealth, the making of a 30 x 40 cm. painting for each place recorded in the North West Leicestershire district handbook that resulted in the exhibition at the…

back to Brisons...such a privilege. For the past few days I've been lucky enough to be having this view, across the Atlantic towards the Americas. That said we'd work to do - the upshot of which is that should you have £60/70k down the back of the sofa we would be grateful if you could send it our way! We need to insulate and update the place to future proof it for the many professional creatives we hope to give the opportunity of experiencing this exact inspirational location.

Another trip to The Wireworks Project where Ivan Smith mounts a substantial, richly layered exhibition that makes the most of the cavernous shed’s undoubted qualities.  Indeed the energy and ingenuity required to dominate this space (virtually the only one of its size in the region) is a challenge to any artist.  The fact that Ivan is resident here (along with his sparring partner…

The piece above might just be finished...or perhaps not. In the 'normal' run of things (as regards this latest escapade) the cobbled together card with its timber support and its first household gloss brushwork would dry and then go off to the studio for innumerable alterations and additions. But something suggested that the rapid and tbh 'unthinking' first stage could be it.

Market Harborough, Pleasant Country Aspect 30 x 40 cm. oil on canvas 2025 Or so the old maxim goes... It's certain that the Harborough leg of The Heart Of Rural England project (blog entries passim) has been grinding slow. My pal Simon dates it very accurately (by the photo record) but it certainly started ahead of COVID, thus back in 2020 or 19.

It's been a while...but I'm not at all apologetic at taking time out to visit the Outer Hebrides for a summer holiday. And whilst week one was variable Scottish weather (often wet & windy) week two delivered for the most part very hot sunny days. Evidence below (Garry beach)... So back home and back to the studio. Long time observers will know that several very distinct projects continue to goad and spur me on.

Krazy Keyser Korner Geezer, 30 x 30 cm. acrylic on board 2025 So this modest little picture is one of a small number of oddities that pay homage to works that have had a profound influence on my ideas of painting. Sometimes they are effectively simple transcriptions, on other occasions very loose variants of the original. Here I am recalling my second encounter with…

The earliest map coloured in during a school trip to Switzerland in 1968 (age 16) I don't know when I started making pictures by colouring maps in but it must've been nearly 57 years ago!  I don't suppose there are very many from those early years but as time went by and particularly from the 1980s onwards I've made many.  I tend to revert to doing so when I'm either bereft of new ideas or just in a lull in the production of other works.