Tribute to Eric Rohmer

The celebrated French film-maker Eric Rohmer died last month, aged 89. Here is a piece I wrote on my encounter with him 4 years ago, published in The Independent.

image: poster for Rohmer's film Pauline à la Plage (1983)

London buses, restaurant kitchen, Peak district in the cold, Amsterdam cafe in the sun

I have neglected my blog recently, so here are a few sketches from the past few months to get me started again. More posts to come...


Sketches from the immaculate kitchens of a large, elegant city restaurant, drawn on two different Wednesday nights last Oct/Nov.



Holborn on a busy autumn night



Drawings from a new year's holiday in the snowy Peak District, 09-10

Sunny Amsterdam cafe scene - painted last summer during a wonderful short break visiting my friend Milenna.

Frieze!

It's coming up to the end of the year and I've just uploaded some photos from recent months onto my computer. I really like this one - it was taken at Frieze Art Fair this autumn. It was my first time at the fair and it definitely made an impression on me. I didn't like a lot of the things I saw, but this Opie sculpture caught my eye. Quite a nice image to end the year with I think!

Hampstead Heath

Some pictures I took on the Heath recently


winter

autumn

Somerset House ice rink

These are some sketches I did on Wednesday at Somerset House, London. I intend to go back there and do more sketches, and then make some paintings from them.

November