The Painting of Frida and some Sea Glass.
This painting was a long time in the making. Not so much the painting of it but the journey it had over a long period of time before it became my colourful little painting of Frida. Many years ago we had a shop at St Nicholas Market in Bristol. We sold all sorts of handmade objects and one of the things we had for sale were little carved notice boards that held a little notepad. I liked them a lot so I took one home and for many years I used it for the family shopping list. If you look at the shape of my Frida painting, you'll see the original shape of one of these boards. A few years ago we moved house to Devon and I saw how battered my little shopping list board had become but I still loved the shape of it so I held on to it with the plan of filling all the broken parts and repainting it one day. So one day I decided to prepare the board with filler and gesso and I began the portrait. You might know that my painting style these days is usually very simple a...