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monday well i went to pick up my two paintings from the now closed exhibition at newcastle arts centre today and was pleasantly surprised to find that this one had sold not such a blue monday after all i painted this one in 2023 in a burst of interest in relatively unlikely bits of newcastle and gateshead posted by harry bell at 19 42 no comments labels blue monday gateshead newcastle newcastle arts centre sold wednesday 24 december 2025 merry christmas 2025 acrylic on canvas board 10 x 8 in digital text merry xmas and best wishes for a happy new year to all my reader posted by harry bell at 19 09 no comments labels greetings cards new year xmas saturday 6 december 2025 house on the road to halepa house on the road to halepa acrylic on canvas panel 30x30 cm it s taken a while to get there but we have arrived when i set out to paint this picture i had a definite idea of how i wanted it to look an idea that came to me even as i sat in the little park just outside chania in september this year it might be interesting to post the photographs i took of the house and the tree so you can see how things have changed in the production of the painting posted by harry bell at 19 28 no comments labels chania crete halepa house painting methods friday 5 december 2025 lisbon cafe wip lisbon cafe wip acrylic on canvas board 10x8 in i laid this out last night with the intention of continuing at the art club today but it was not to be oh well reserved for a later date posted by harry bell at 19 18 no comments labels cafe wip lisbon friday 24 october 2025 mau s wall mau s wall acrylic on block panel 20 x 20 15 cm as is often the case i m finding it difficult to pick up paintings i was working on before our holiday in crete so this little piece is by way of hopefully getting things going again posted by harry bell at 19 54 no comments labels crete holiday wall painting friday 12 september 2025 streets in bologna streets in bologna sold acrylic on board 14 x 8 5 in friday s new start at the art club was this view of streets in bologna several alterations later and the italian street scene is done it s a combination of a view i liked and the serendipitous finding of a panel that was the right shape i d do more of these views if the panels were readily available posted by harry bell at 20 32 no comments labels acrylic board bologna gateshead art society italy street scene tuesday 26 august 2025 dreamer dreamer oil on canvas 12 x 12 in sold this lovely lady is now on her way to be with a collector in yorkshire i know she ll be in good company posted by harry bell at 15 22 no comments labels canvas figure painting oil sold monday 18 august 2025 shadows at the end of the street shadows at the end of the street acrylic on board 28 x 24 cm started on friday at gateshead art society finished last night this is one of those views you spot abroad when you re walking down a narrow street and at the end of the street framed by the two sides of the street you re on is a fascinating composition an interesting and challenging composition that i feel i ve made work posted by harry bell at 20 01 no comments labels colourful composition gateshead art society shadows street view tuesday 8 july 2025 chinese bottle chinese bottle acrylic on board 8 x 8 in sold this small still life painted i think during the lockdown has now sold and on its way to its new home posted by harry bell at 15 30 no comments labels acrylic art sale board lockdown sold still life monday 16 june 2025 seville tile factory seville tile factory acrylic on canvas board 10 x 12 in i was fascinated by the tile factory in seville when we went there in 2017 the strange shapes of the bottle kilns with mysterious openings and cantilevered lamps were a delight for someone who revels in the unusual i was immediately reminded of the paintings of giorgio de chirico a tremendous influence on many of the painters i admire from the period between the wars here s a photoshop treatment i did of a photograph taken on the same visit i think it evokes some of de chirico strangeness but despite a couple of attempts i ve failed to turn it into a successful painting i may return to it again posted by harry bell at 18 51 no comments labels acrylic board bottle kilns de chirico mysterious photoshop seville wednesday 4 june 2025 memory lane memory lane acrylic on canvas 8 x 8 in a painting from almost ten years ago i needed the frame for something else so took the opportunity to make some revisions the painting is now darker and potentially more mysterious and for me that seems right i m beginning to realise that changing times and my attitudes to the work can be reflected in reworked paintings something for more thought posted by harry bell at 15 45 no comments labels acrylic canvas darker landscape mysterious revision reworked sunday 4 may 2025 derry girls derry girls acrylic on canvas board 9 x 12 in the second of my paintings celebrating my trip to derry londonderry the derry girls mural was quite a surprise posted by harry bell at 19 52 no comments labels acrylic canvas board derry derry girls londonderry saturday 3 may 2025 up the walls of derry up the walls of derry acrylic on canvas board 9 x 12 in completed today the first of my new derry londonderry paintings i was there two years ago and had a great time but sometimes it takes a while for the experience to filter through and become a painting posted by harry bell at 19 40 no comments labels acrylic canvas board derry londonderry northern ireland monday 21 april 2025 speciality coffee bar speciality coffee bar acrylic and collage on board 12x7 in a small painting begun as a distraction at the turn of the year it shows one of the derelict doorways i found as i wandered the streets of chania on one of my many visits there i enjoyed bringing the textures of the wall and door to life after today s changes i think i m done with it now posted by harry bell at 20 19 no comments labels acrylic chania old town coffee shop collage crete derelict doorway textures monday 24 june 2024 st george s university school of medicine urban sketchers annual event st george s university school of medicine northumberland road newcastle markers in a5 sketchbook i was really looking forward to the usk annual event when it came to newcastle it would be a great opportunity to meet urban sketchers from across the country and even from other countries i thought so i cheerfully turned up on friday afternoon i d missed the opening speeches if there were any and sketchers had already scattered across the immediate vicinity of the university and st thomas s church i began to get an inkling of how isolating such a big event might turn out to be anyway i set off and finding a doorway to draw settled down on some stone steps outside the city hall and began to draw the doorway of st george s university school of medicine having an interest in and perhaps a love of cars makes drawing them easier i m sure i have neither so i struggled by the time i d finished the car had of course driven away and i sitting on the steps of the city hall found myself trapped behind barriers that had been set up to contain the queue for the next performance a kind man in a hi viz vest let me out still it seemed a decent start to the usk annual event however when i got back to the main event near the university and joined in the throw down i started to realise how lonely i was feeling oh there were people there i knew some of them even my friends but they were either involved in the organising or very much wrapped up in their small cliques i m not fond of big events if i m honest and this proved to be much bigger than anticipated and quite uninvolving for me as people wandered off in groups to different venues quite a few going off to eat i found myself standing on my own i made the decision to go home and not return for the following day s event posted by harry bell at 20 12 no comments labels city hall sketchbook urban sketchers annual event sunday 9 june 2024 rooftop wip rooftop wip acrylic on canvas board 8x8 in something else begun last friday at gateshead art society i m finding my way with this one not quite certain where it will lead i m interested in the way the shadows may not correspond with the light source posted by harry bell at 18 29 no comments labels acrylic gateshead art society light shadows saturday 8 june 2024 work yard wip work yard wip acrylic on canvas board 10 x 12 in the first few hours at gateshead art society today left me with this scrubby start to a new quite complicated painting of a work yard just round the corner from where i live i m genuinely encouraged and find myself becoming more interested in the mundane urban imagery around me posted by harry bell at 18 22 no comments labels acrylic gateshead art society urban scenes wip saturday 1 june 2024 night moorings night moorings acrylic on canvas board 10 x 12 in finished today this was one of those times when i begin to question if the photograph i m using as subject matter is just a good photograph and not really suitable as painting subject matter but i persevered made changes mostly to the sky and ended with something i find satisfactory posted by harry bell at 18 54 no comments labels acrylic boats harbour night scene thursday 23 may 2024 moli des comte ciutadella menorca moli des comte ciutadella markers in a5 sketchbook not the most appealing viewpoint but the only one that didn t involve being run over i thoroughly enjoyed my week s holiday in ciutadella the old capital of menorca but found it difficult to do any drawing in part because of the usual inertia but also because like verona it s a town of very narrow streets that make drawing difficult posted by harry bell at 19 53 no comments labels holidays sketchbook markers menorca verona tuesday 14 may 2024 boats at night wip boats at night wip acrylic on canvas board 10 x 12 in after a holiday break it s good to get back to some painting but i m never happy when i have to break off at this scrubby stage i always doubt the viability of the subject or composition boats was this week s suggested theme at the art club continuing next week posted by harry bell at 20 03 no comments labels boats gateshead art society wednesday 24 april 2024 whitby coble whitby coble acrylic on canvas board 12 x 12 in for various reasons mostly to do with the approach i first took to the composition and sourcing of the image i put off finishing this painting but now it s done and i m happy with it the slightly different approach involved using a photograph that never entirely convinced me because the coble sat low in the water and didn t break the line of the quayside to extract the information i needed to make the picture work i tried working from a pen drawing of the photograph ensuring the coble s superstructure bridged the top of the quay this is the pen drawing fountain pen in square pink pig sketchbook posted by harry bell at 19 40 no comments labels acrylic canvas board coble pen drawing whitby saturday 20 april 2024 chicken shed wip chicken shed wip acrylic on board 10x10 in begun at the art club yesterday for me a nightmare in green but i have it under control i think it s based on an ink drawing i did back in 2019 an ink drawing i did back in 2019 posted by harry bell at 18 34 no comments labels acrylic ink drawing red and green shed friday 19 april 2024 tony montague tony montague at durham art group photo copyright durham art group i learned today that my old friend tony montague has died he was a prolific and adventurous artist freely offering advice and a helping hand he and i had a joint show in alnwick in 2012 and we went on several group painting weeks together i last saw him in 2017 when he gave a demonstration at gateshead art society he was a fine fellow and i ll miss him posted by harry bell at 19 36 no comments labels artist death tony montague wednesday 17 april 2024 it was 20 years ago today i ve always been interested in writing down thoughts and happenings as a way of reinforcing unreliable memory and interrogating some of my own assumptions over the years i ve kept a diary a studio journal and this blog my diary began in may 1983 and i ve been good at keeping it going over the years there are gaps inevitably but looking back at entries now and again can be quite surprising for instance i recently found an entry from the 80s that detailed a meeting with a friend in a restaurant in newcastle i still have no idea why we were meeting not enough detail diary but more surprisingly was the description of the restaurant because it no longer exists and without the diary entry it wouldn t exist for me now at all the studio journal has an even earlier start june 1972 it s progress however has been patchy and uneven part of the problem is that some things get written up in the diary which deserve equal space in the journal and there are indeed times when i make the effort to copy entries from one to the other the actual function of the studio journal has varied over the years but i still think it s a worthwhile investment of time before the appearance of facebook i wrote far more in this blog my first approach to blogging was from the perspective of fanzine publishing in fact i firmly intended to make this blog a replacement for the fanzines i used to distribute to science fiction fans round the world but it quickly became obvious that the intended audience hadn t taken to the idea and i gradually found myself drawn into the blogosphere a quite different concept from fanzine fandom facebook and other social media have of course dealt a body blow to blogging a great number of blogs are now moribund and indeed i let my activities here slide quite a bit in 2017 i posted 425 blog posts here a high point because in subsequent years the number declined to posts in the mid 40s i m now making the effort to revive boogie street perhaps not to its former glory but at least to something that presents something new fairly regularly here s to the next 20 years and enjoy the celebratory cake if 2018 doesn t mean it s a bit stale posted by harry bell at 02 12 no comments labels anniversary blogging boogie street diary facebook fanzine fandom studio journal older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me harry bell gateshead north east united kingdom welcome to my blog i m a professional artist working in oil acrylic and drawing i m still very much a figurative painter aiming at some kind of modern representation i believe in the continuing value of painting and follow in its long and honourable tradition view my complete profile the cartoonist s hat my other blog my website subscribe to my blog posts atom posts all comments atom all comments your email address powered by feedblitz flâneurs greetings cards cards of my work for sale all images shown here are copyright under no circumstances may they be used without permission see more of my work here many of the 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