So The marvelous festival of Christmas is with us again.

This year I am giving you all a photographic detail of a window from Tenby Parish Church, in Pembrookshire; I am aware that it is very idealistic and picturesque, yes; But it is also beautiful and giving us a lovely impression of the innocence of Jesus's birth, remembering what was to come! 

So this morning we are off for a walk at Polsten Lacey; the woods always relax me, we will enjoy that; then tommorow the festival begings---Yippee.

So enjoy the festival and be thankful.

 

Well the exhibition at Guildford is now finnished, it went very well and is now taken down, thank you to everybody who took the time to go and see it; I feel that it was a resounding success.

For those who missed it, a smaller version of the exhibition is presently hung at the Ambrose Cafe in Hook Heath, in Woking for the next few months.

Well Christmas is now only a few days ahead and this year I have been doing a great deal of thinking.; Jesus, faith and all that sort of thing. The conclusion which I have come to is rasther simple. I dont understand. Its all a bit beyond me, but I am convinced that it is all true. Thank you Jesus.

 

 Many seemed to like my photograph of the Stoer Penninsular which was on this blog the other day, so here is another photo.

Many have been talking about the cold, the wet and are often amazed that strange people like myself dont feel the cold to much. Well on that day shown above, just out of interest the location was, High Neb, the highest point of the Stannage Edge Ridge in the Peak District. it was indeed very cold and what is not obvious from the photograph is the wind chilldont. Out of interest you might notice that I am painting and not wearing gloves.

In reality I do prefer it to not be that cold and I do posess a nice pair of leather gloves, so to be honest I am a big softie and alternative plan could be for a nice cup of coffee and meal in pleasant suroundings; that sounds a rather good idea, So why not go along to the Guildford Inststute, in Ward Street and then, whilst relaxing in the warmth, see my exhibition; it is running until the 22nd of december.

Just a reminder of my exhibition in the Guildford Institute is running until the 22nd of December.

I don't often give you a photo, but this is of Fondle, on the Stoer peninsular, right up in the wilds of the North West Scotland. Liz and myself spent a few days there on our trip of a month or so ago. This peninsular only a few miles south of Cape Wrath has the most amazing scenery squesed into every bend of the road. Liz loved it!

If you are taking photographs with a great deal of sky and sea in the picture, the camera trying to be clever will tend to under expose. So open the lens by one stop and that way, as in the above photo you will get a corrrect exposure.

 

Well at last the exhibition in Guildford is up and running. We have been away for a few days in our favorite seaside retreat, Sidmouth in South Devon, so everything exibition wise was being organised at a distance. not much fun; but lets be thankful for Sue of Guildford Arts. With her husband they hung the pictures breautifuly; a very big thank you to them both.

I am fortunatly in sharing this exhibition with Peg Morris a print maker. Her etchings and prints are realy rather special, so it is a varied show which those attending will enjoy it.

I produced the above painting whilst in Sidmouth a few days ago, from a sketch which was drawn on a visit to Hornfluer, Normandy, a little before the pandemic erupted into our lives. 

In Sidmouth this last week we just relaxed, arriving rather tired and with a need to rest a while; so in reality we did very little; met old friends in Exeter, shop gazed and shopped, ate a little to much, slept very soundly, sat around, read a great deal and painted, with a lovely sea view room as well. It did us good. Thank you Sidmojuth.