The final painting for the wall is in for framing and should be ready for our little exhibition 'Christmas in July'. There will be almost 50 original works along with limited edition prints for sale to a few invited guests and friends. The acrylic paintings on the right of the picture are my wife's creations and the watercolours to the left, are my own. 

I am getting our home studio ready for a 'Christmas in July' exhibition. putting the larger paintings high is a challenge working alone but the scaffolding helps, it is just the lifting of them up each section.
Also I have fitted a bar on the wall to take their extra weight.
The painting to the top left is of Monet's Garden and is an acrylic completed by my wife after our 2013 trip.
It is not likely that we sell any of the larger paintings, as the celebration is for friends and colleagues with very limited public exposure, as we are on a non-commercial, rural residential block of land.
                                                                                                                I shall need to put another level of scaffolding up to site the next one and may even need the help of my son to lift it as it is a large one with a stronf frame and glass. I must admit that I will be happy to get back to painting!

My work has been in hiatus over the last few days as I have been working on a project of restoration. A friend brought someone round to the studio with a 'painting' they wanted me to restore. There were scratches to the surface and some canvas damage. I agreed to do it but it was obvious to me that the ' painting' was, in fact a very old print on canvas. I said that I would repair it but to completely repaint it was a big job and that, being a print, it would not be economical. We agreed on a cursory repair without making it look 'new'. I used oil paint to make the best match of colour and tone as I could but the deep scratches will always be visible under some angles of light without a more extensive restoration.

  Before and after (complete with iphone shadow. Tones are different because of lighting differences