The happiest day of your life

'The happiest day of your life',  90 x 91.5cms, Oil on canvas, 1988

The above image is of a painting that I did long ago when I was evidently not that enamoured with marriage. It isn't that I didn't believe in the long term commitment that marriage enshrines(supposedly), it is just that I had noticed at the time, when a lot of my friends were taking the plunge, that often the size and spectacle of the wedding was in inverse proportion to the time the 'happy' couple stayed together. The reason I included it is because my own daughter's wedding took place last week and it was, thankfully a modest but truly happy occasion which will I am sure prove my youthful cynicism to be unfounded.

Now that it is over I am beginning to get my head around the classes that I am organising and teaching this autumn,

Autumn Life Drawing Classes

I am going on holiday at the beginning of September so the first of my monthly one day life drawing workshops, which usually take place on the first Saturday of the month, will be on Saturday 2nd October. I am taking bookings for this workshop now. It will take place as usual in the art studio at Shottery Memorial hall, near Stratford on Avon, from 10am until 4.30pm and the cost is £40.  

I have a few spaces for newcomers in my weekly evening class which takes place every thursday (during term times) from 6.15 - 8.15pm in Leamington Spa. The term starts on 16th September and costs £144 (half term is 28th Oct. and we finish on 9th Dec.).

All my classes have to be booked and paid for in advance. Please email me if you would like any further information and to check whether there are spaces left.