THE WINE BAR

I am preparing work for the NOVASTRAND II INSPIRATIONS SHOW Sandra and I are curating at the Belfry Art Centre in September. My theme is based on interior public houses that came about because I needed work to show that would interest any men visitors to my Open Studio weekends, being that most of my work was based on floral and gardens. All participants are offering items for display that inspired their works being exhibited based on their own theme. To date we have such diverse subjects as windows, circles, halloween, city landmarks, surfers , strand (shoreline), the seaside town of Cromer and cows!!!

The one I am showing you now was based on this earlier rather abstracted work which I always thought was not finished. Its never been exhibited and I had called it
THE PURPLE BAR -


On working on it, the painting became more realistic and I changed its name to
THE WINE BAR

On showing it to Sandra, she wondered if I could turn the strange original shape over the shoulder into a tea towel - voila

I have two others ready for the show I will post another day and there was one I had called THE SPANISH BAR I sold at Wells Next the Sea last year. Maybe I'll do some more based on Coltishall pubs, particularly the one that exhibits my local scene paintings for sale.