Michael Gage

Here are pictures of the final hang for the London Road Group exhibition, just before the crowds rushed in for the private view at 6pm.
















...and Michael: Last to finish, as usual. Just managed to hide the hammer, tape, cardboard boxes, carrier bags, nails, and bottle of water before the public arrived.

We spent a happy afternoon arranging the exhibition, which opens on 22 April, 2011 at the Ashdown Forest Visitor Centre, East Sussex.

A sunny afternoon in early Spring cut short by storm clouds moving northwards from the English Channel and across the downs.



Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Another painting for the Ashdown Forest exhibition. Dark clouds at the end of a late autumn day. Sheets of red bracken stretch up to the horizon.



Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Our exhibition at the Ashdown Forest Centre opens soon. Next week. It's about time that I got on and did some work for it. Here's the first of my paintings.



29 July, 2pm. Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

The dominant feature of the Ashdown Forest landscape is not the trees -- it's not that sort of forest -- but the wide horizons and arching skies.

For more information about the exhibition, click here.

Maybe it's black and white.



Linocut, 10 x 10 cm.

Drawings from our latest life session.





Five minute poses.



Ninety minute pose, pencil on paper.



Fifty minute pose, pencil on paper.

I liked one of the quick sketches so much, that I "painted" it in Photoshop later.