Entries by Jonathan Kelly

Bad Neighbour

This painting has changed name several times, but I finally settled on Bad Neighbour.  The street is from a village in the Gers which was in the territories fought over by the English and French.  The French named certain villages as bad neighbours, ie English….. These names stayed and `mauvais voisins’ became Mauvezin.   This […]

Bauhaus

Created over multiple layers of wood this was the most involved of the current collection.  Each colour has its own piece of wood, ie every colour is cut from the wood, painted and reconstructed; with some pieces bridging different layers of the painting.  It was painstaking to create with multiple aspects, angles and shades of […]

Selling Photography Online

It has been a while since I sold my photos, but I am about to start again.  I love photography and have previously worked as a press photographer,  now I use them as an inspiration for my paintings.  My wife an kids often print and frame them, and guests have commented on them, so I […]

Zambezi One

From the moment I first put the phone down to Robert at Zambezi One I was on a sort of roller coaster.  Unlike those in the fairgrounds I did not know where this one was going or what route it was going to take; the highs were undefined and the lows were out of sight. […]

Collected and Gone

I have already posted about my racing car being sold, but today it was collected.  It is officially gone.  I know that I should be please but I somehow feel slightly flat about the whole thing.  I love that the buyer was so pleased with it, but it still feels slightly strange knowing that I […]

Sold

The car is gone …. good or bad?   The car was always slightly different to the other paintings I was working on.  Firstly it was the only one which was actually small enough to be moved by one person alone, secondly, it was experimental with the car coming out of the frame.   I […]

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It is a warm day in the South West of France.  In fact, it is verging on being too warm a day.  I have just finished the cutting on the third layer of the Spaghetti, and breeze from the window is blowing the dust around the studio, while barely justifying itself by cooling the room….  I […]

Painting by Numbers

There was a time when painting by numbers suggested a childs activity book, but now it is more of an accounting thing.  I have to order my paints online, partly because they are cheaper and partly because there is absolutely no where around here which sells anything, let alone at a competitive price. Painting by […]