Open Studio Exhibition Preview 2

Tomatoes & Spring Onions 2

7.5" x 7.5"

Oil on Canvas Panel

Here is a preview of another piece on show at the Open Studios Exhibition.

23rd July - 7th August 2016

22 Station Road

Holt
Norfolk
NR25 6BS

Daily 10am - 5pm

enquiries to mail@nicholaselliott.co.uk

Open Studio Exhibition Preview 1

Clementines Bowl & Stripes

8.5" x 11.5"

Oil on Canvas Panel

Here is the first preview of one of the pieces on show at the Open Studios Exhibition.

23rd July - 7th August 2016

22 Station Road

Holt
Norfolk
NR25 6BS

Daily 10am - 5pm

enquiries to mail@nicholaselliott.co.uk

Three of Three

Garden Daffs 3

Oil on Linen Panel

5.5" x 7.5"

More White lions and these are the last of the quick daffodil studies from April which were such fun to paint. All three of the studies will be available at my Open Studios Exhibition (July 23rd - August 7th)

Now is a busy time preparing for the exhibition. Besides continuing to work on a series of paintings for the show I am converting the garage into a studio and hanging space with the help of the very generous Nigel Weston (thank you). Yesterday saw us battening out the garage walls and fixing plaster-boards for the new wall surfaces - Today saw me holding my back. It will need another three days work to have the conversion complete and ready. There is a seemingly endless list of other things still to do which is both exhausting and exhilarating as the end of July, which a few weeks ago seemed a long way off, closes in. Did someone mention the football? . . . and the dog needs walking. Its great fun.

This morning I picked up the nine more paintings for the exhibition from the framer and I am delighted with the result. Perhaps I will post a couple of them here leading up to the exhibition opening. 

Remaining at the End of the Garden

Garden Daffs 1

Oil on Linen Panel
7.5" x 5.5"

SOLD

This is another of my painterly daffodil studies from April. According to the American Daffodil Society there are between 40 and 200 species of daffs depending on which botanist you talk to. This is one of five varieties I have at the end of the garden. It is known as White Lion because of its double set of petals and I think the prettiest of all the Daffodils - equally so at the end of the garden, in a vase or maybe even framed? These small studies will be available at my Open Studios Exhibition - here at 22 Station Road 23rd July - 6th August Open Daily 10 am to 5pm. 

At the End of the Garden

Garden Daffs 2

Oil on Linen Panel

5.5" x 7.5"

Each April I am blessed with a blaze of colour at the end of the garden. Four of Five variety of daffodils emerge on the border of the lawn in front of the walnut tree. This year their appearance coincided with a spell of glorious weather so I took the opportunity to get out of the studio and do a series of small studies. Daffs are a joy to paint as they flutter in the breeze catching the fleeting sunlight between passing clouds. It is so good working outside where conditions demand quick decisions which result in a freer more painterly style. I have had these small studies framed up and they will be available at my Open Studios Exhibition - here at 22 Station Road 23rd July - 6th August Open Daily 10 am to 5pm. 

Signs of activity

Freshly prepared panels awaiting inspiration and oil paint

My first post for some time. The abrupt suspension to my posts here came about owing to a combination of Dizziness, Vertigo, Fatigue and Nausea which I have struggled with increasingly over the past two years or so. Finally earlier this year it became so bad it was very difficult to work.

A CT scan revealed the culprit of this malady to be a cholesteatoma in my right middle ear. Treatment for which, in my case, was a radical mastoidectomy - this is surgery to remove the diseased middle ear and mastoid bones. This was undertaken in April and despite a readmission to hospital for two further days to staunch profuse bleeding and the op itself rendering me deaf on the right side ("its all mono for you from now on" a dear friend comically observed) miraculously I now feel about a hundred percent better. And I am back at work.

Because of all this palaver I have had to cancel my participation in the Norwich and Norfolk Open Studios this month however I am having Open Studios here during the Holt Festival from 23rd July to 6th August - Opening daily 10 am to 5pm 

So if you would like to see some lovely paintings on sale in my new studio space, meet the artist and his handsome dog look me up at 22 Station Road, Holt, Norfolk - You will be very welcome.