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The golden season is upon us with autumn, bringing with it a riot of colours! I enjoy nothing better than walking in the country with my dogs and seeing the trees cast aside their emerald hues to display instead a pallet of yellow, orange, red, purple and browns. It’s enough to get anyone reaching for a paintbrush - which leads me seamlessly to this years’ Worthing Portrait Artist Of The Year Competition! Nine talented artists, four hours, three sitters, and one winner! Held

Woman With A beard After L.S. Lowry This painting is one of Lowry’s rare, real portraits. In an interview he recalls how, on one occasion when travelling by train from Cardiff to Paddington, a bearded woman boarded his carriage at Newport. “She had a very nice face, and quite a beard. Well sir, I just couldn’t let such an opportunity pass, so I began almost at once to make a little drawing of her on a piece of paper. She was sitting right opposite me. After a while she aske

Autumn is drawing in and the sunlight hours are getting shorter – not ideal for an artist! The good news is that Cloud Gallery is hosting an exhibition of my artwork in November, so this will give me something to focus on. Any ideas regarding what to paint for the exhibition will be gratefully accepted, another Van Gogh perhaps, or a certain Monet. Dates and venue for the exhibition will be released soon. I also managed to get to The National Gallery in London this summer to