Private view at the Mall Galleries yesterday

Definitely on the case with my blog at the moment!  Here I am, standing in front of my piece of work being exhibited in the SWA exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.  

Photo taken courtesy of Matt, my partner, who had to battle with my little camera a bit to get a decent photo! 

It was a wonderful private view.  The weather was absolutely gorgeous.  Possibly the sunniest day of the year yet.  The pv was absolutely packed with people and the work was generally quite fabulous - a wonderful mix of paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints.  It's definitely an exhibition worth going to see.

Had a lovely chat with Anne Blankson-Hemans, my fellow compadre from the Big Painting Challenge.  Anne is a member of the SWA and had 3 pieces of work on display.  Fingers crossed we both sell.

We had a bit of a natter about the forthcoming Pintar Rapido challenge.  I'm not totally sure about taking part in this one.  I may have had enough of challenges for the time being, but it is a day to paint as opposed to a BBC 3 hours, so I may give it a go.  It's outside though.......and architecture........not my best subjects.  Let's see how I get on with my Lake District paintings, which I am hoping to start this weekend.  Very excited and really looking forward to mixing up some oil paints for colour studies.  Hmmm, I can smell the turps already!