I've just about recovered from a long weekend spent at the wonderful Bluedot festival - a celebration of all things music and science under the shadow of the magnificent Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank!
As well as a lot of wonderful musical acts, I also saw some brilliant talks from amazing scientists, including Prof. Brian Cox and Prof. Tim O'Brien and I got thinking about my Celestial Bodies series paintings which I started back in 2020. I'd originally planned to do more of these little eye pieces but ended up getting distracted a little bit by the events of 2020 and subsequently my 100 heads project! Oops! I'd definitely like to pick it up again soon though!
Swipe for close ups of each:
'Betelgeuse'
'Sagittarius A*'
'Pale Blue Dot'
'Baily's Beads'
...and swipe to the end a few of the very, very many photos of the Lovell Telescope I took over the weekend - It never fails to take my breath away!
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Apologies for going quiet on you again, loves! I've been rushed off my feet with all sorts, but I've also been working on a special commission for the wonderful @helium_london that I'm delighted to finally share - An Eye Spy family portrait!
This has been such a huge joy to work on - I kept catching myself smiling back at these little paintings while I worked! I've never done a group like this before so I was eager to see how they'd look together at the end. The main part of my brief though was to capture "sparkle" and I'm so grateful to this lovely bunch for trusting me with theirs - I mean, just look, they've got sparkle in shed loads!!! This reaction though, this has made my heart full. I am one happy camper!
"I’ve been wanting to commission a family portrait for sometime but really couldn’t find exactly what I wanted. Then last year @lucy.pass.artist created a piece for our Pressing Matters exhibition and I instantly knew she was the one. I could not be more over the moon with this series that she did of Craig, the boys and myself. Honestly Lucy, how you have managed to capture us all exactly with just a single eye is simply extraordinary. Your painting is DIVINE!!! I smile every time I look at them. Never has a truer portrait of @craigfda existed!!!! Thank you is not enough!"
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