Author: Ian

Yesterday I went up to London to visit the 101st open exhibition of the Society of Graphic Fine Art at Mall Galleries. The exhibition finishes on Saturday (21 May) but is well worth a visit if you get the chance. There are around 300 pictures from over 200 artists and the breadth and quality of…

I was asked a little while ago to make a Christmas Card for Lantern Trust. Lantern Trust is a Weymouth-based charity that helps people with multiple exclusion factors, those who are most vulnerable and who most often find themselves homeless. I drew a couple of portraits for them earlier this year. One is here but…

At the start of the year I did some voluntary work for the Lantern Trust, a charity that helps vulnerable and marginalized people in the Weymouth & Portland. I helped out (a tiny little bit) with their Safe Sleep project, which provides overnight accommodation for people who have been rough sleeping. These are the people…

The Society for Graphic Fine Art was founded in 1919 to “uphold and maintain the interests of all those forms of art that do not use colour as a form of expression” and it held its first exhibition in 1921. The centenary exhibition was due to be held last year but was postponed until this…

I have a very exciting week coming up! Last year was going to be the year I really made an effort to get my pictures into some exhibitions but, for some reason, that didn’t quite work out. This year is still rather strange, as we all know, but things here in the UK are starting…