Well aren't we all! so why not why not have a souvenir of those amazing times on your wall? Brian Elwell a fine artist from Bath has created a wonderful series of paintings of the Festival. Brian paints stunning images of urban scenes and these can all be viewed in his gallery in bathartsales.com

Wow Janie what a wonderful portrait, your customer must be delighted: what a great likeness.

We have been searching for a still life painter to join us, and we are lucky to have found Jane Robinson from nearby Frome. Jane paints beautiful still lifes in a classical way way but with a contemporary composition. The detail is wonderful, and very precise. Jane is also delving into landscapes inspired by the beautiful Somerset countryside. We look forward to many

Beautiful day here near Bath, almost a shame to stay in painting, but some progress with the black and orange theme mostly under-painting. it is a street scene at night with heavy rain, so lots of reflections off road and pavements. Once finished i will pour Totalcast resin over, which will give it high gloss mirror finish. So hopefully will have the effect

After some days at the office, the weekend will be back to painting! So that orange and black mess will hopefully come alive! Interesting video yesterday from Lyn Kirkland about encaustic painting, certainly learned something there. And how about Laura Parker's notes about her underwater inspired painting, I well understand the inspiration from the way light from above catches all those underwater structures. OK so

I first met Georgie at an art exhibition in Frome Somerset some 18 months or so ago. There were some beautiful paintings of wild life in gorgeous pinks, yellows bright blues etc. Helle, my wife and I, eventually settled for 4 small framed paintings in a set: they basically depict 4 butts! And they are absolutely beautiful, and quite a conversation piece at

Nice to hear from Laura Parker. Laura is exhibiting some wonderful paintings inspired by her escapades as a underwater explorer. It would be nice to know how she goes about putting what she sees onto canvas. So, Laura where have these scenes come from, have you mainly dived in Europe, and presumably the underworld landscape is quite different form place to place? Also

Bath Art Sales are delighted to include Bath based artist Brian Elwell in our group of artists. Brian is an award winning artist with many years experience both as a painter and teacher. We are lucky to have a number of his extraodinary paintings on our website: some of these will be exhibited in The Woolverton Gallery from June this year. Most of

Well, all morning on admin, had enough of that, so started a new bit of artwork. A continuation of my reflections series, this one is called "Orange City' for obvious reasons. Working on an orange background, you can just see the bare bones of the structure of some of the buildings. I know it looks a mess, but it will develop. The finish