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May 22, 2006

motoring frames and pictures

Here are my six paintings all at the 'nearly there'point. it was excactly 2 months ago that I started these and one month until they are on show at Sarah Wiseman. They all need some final tinkering and clearing up. The big pidgeon man/lady is my least favourite just now, but perhaps with a little more work..

I am glad to be coming to the end of this period as work at Brookes is getting very fraught as we near the students diploma shows. I am quite relieved that the vast majority of the foundation students got into their first choice degree course, which is the main aim of the foundation art. While I do miss the higher level of teaching on a degree, I do love seeing these students make their first steps into mature artists and designers.

Last Tuesday, was a bit of a day out for me: (travel details warning robloggers!) I was to pick up the cyprus pictures being framed in Reading and take them to Sarah Wiseman who was taking them to the Bristol Affordable Art fair. I was borrowing Catharine's car after I had given her a lift to her work. However, as soon I got into the car it would not start - we got out the AA - who then found out that we had not used the immobiliser on the keyring!!! Stupid!! I had a nice drive up to Chipping Norton (north of Oxford) to pick up some other pictures from the Manor House gallery. My brother Chris shows there, and he had delivered some work he had of mine from various shows in Edinburgh. So it was then back down to Oxford to deliver all the work for Bristol to Sarah Wiseman. We were meant to go through this weekend for the art fair, but was too tired I needing to get on with the paintings. Still to find out whether I sold any...

Well hopefully, the next time I blog, I will have finshed all the pictures and perhaps ready to update my website.

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May 14, 2006

latest on the work

I worked on the 'Kebab Hut' and 'The Sheldonian Theatre' pictures mostly this week, plus a little of the giant by christchurch. I am just off for another stint down the studio. They are all getting quite close to completion, but all require lots of concentration;

I dont think I have spent so much time on so few picures in the last few years. It is the nature of these pictures that they dont just feel like Oxford, but are actually depicting real parts of it. So, for once, I am relying on detail from photographic reference. This does offer up challenges which would never present itself when I am working entirely from drawings and invention. I think it has brought out a diffeernet kind of intensity from, say, the work I did last autumn.

I am looking forward to Tuesday, when I am picking up four of my Cyprus pictures from the framer, to show at next weekend's Affordable Art Fair in Bristol through Sarah Wiseman.

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May 8, 2006

light at the end of the tunnel...?

Not a huge amount to say really. I have been working on the three pictures above this last week. I finally braved doing the big one of the pidgeon man/lady. I decided that it needed to be a lot cleaner and have no other figures, which were distracting and pointless. I think it looks more arresting now. Still much work to be done on it. The other two are nearly there. The lovers at the botanics is still a bit messy, but I see how to pull it all together now. one more session on both and they can be put to bed, hopefully.

That leaves the three others to work on and perhaps I wil have time to work up some of the little ones I started before xmas and never resolved.. Sometimes that works for me - rescueing old unfinished forgotten pictures.

Oh! I nearly forgot. I have been invited back out to Cyprus at the end of June for a month to teach and paint. So, it will be get the show ready, finish at Brookes and then off for a hot month in Limassol once again. Great!

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May 2, 2006

May Day in Hastings and paintings

Now I have got my web server sorted out - just time to do a quick blog. had a great weekend down in Hastings for the Jack in the green where there where hundred of people who looked like this;

Plus at least 5000 bikers! Fabulous.

The rest of the weekend was of course spent in the studio - and I think there is finally light at the end of the tunnel for these two pictures:

I am going to try and concentrate on finishing these two by the end of this week. On friday night I was unable to decide which one to work on so I texted Barry (a roblogaholic) in Aberdeen to ask him which one to work on. He said he thought the one with the trees looks tricky to paint and I should do that one. So it did. But, now I have been avoiding the big one with the pidgeon lady/man (time will tell). Big paintings are such are diferent kind of energy. Maybe tackle it next weekend? Barry? We shall see..

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New Server for www.robbiebushe.co.uk

I have been having much trouble with my web server of late. Therefore, I have moved my entire site over to a new one. My address 'www.robbiebushe.co.uk' will still take you to the home page, but all the other pages are now on new pages all beginning with www.robbiebushe.co.uk/. So, if you had certain pages (with asrs94.dsl.pipex.com) bookmarked they will all now take you to my home page. These holding pages will only be active for a short time, to allow people to make the switch. Other than that noting has changed. I will not put the new work up on the galleries pages until it is all complete and in the exhibition in June.

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