Category Archives: Painting

Full Colour – An Exhibition of Paintings by Garth Lewis at Platform Gallery – Habitat, Kings Road, London

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Ptolemy Mann

Postings were rare in April. Apologies! All I can say is that with imminent bed-linen launch, rug launch and my show at Chatsworth all coming up fast on the horizon things have been a little busy recently. Still, no excuse … Continue reading →

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The Illuminated Illustrator – Anne Smith

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Ptolemy Mann

How wonderful to be greeted this morning by a message from the lovely Anne Smith telling me about her beautiful 100 cup series now available on-line through the website: Everything in my house Anne and I shared our studio in … Continue reading →

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Life Drawing – Orange velvety curtains…

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Ptolemy Mann

As the sharp sunlight disappears behind the orange velvety curtains in the village hall we settle down to some life drawing to the tunes of Miles Davis. This is what I drew…          

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Life Drawing Details…

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Ptolemy Mann

Apart from managing to explode a bottle of hot pink watercolour ink all over the place last week I also  eeeeked out a few drawings. I decided these worked better in close up and detail. Saturated layers of line and … Continue reading →

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Inherited Colour – More life drawing

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Ptolemy Mann

I’ve rediscovered colour inherited from my father. When I was little I used to sit for hours and watch him paint Mandala’s with liquid watercolours. In my own art box, which I’ve been using recently for life drawing, I discovered … Continue reading →

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‘Happiness via Colour ‘ Part 1: Nostalgic Colour….

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Ptolemy Mann

A nostalgic frame of mind sent me searching through some old papers and I found a very early ‘colour study’ I did circa 1978 or thereabouts. I was surprised to see how primary the colour palette was and yet as children … Continue reading →

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