Blog Archive
Updates: Christmas cards, book cover, spotted in Japan and chewing gum
Visit my gallery A few updates to give you in this blog. Christmas cards In April, I put out a call for designs for Christmas cards to raise money for Christmas dinner, this year, at No. 84 Tearoom and Eatery at Echo Square in Gravesend https://www.no84.co.uk/...
Ben Wilson: Chewing Gum Man
Visit my gallery Crossing London's Millenium Bridge always involves negotiating a crowd. There are Londoners with their gaze fixed straight ahead, or on their phones, trying to get from A to B, and tourists taking in the stunning views down the Thames on their way to...
Lino print workshop and a big bike
Visit my gallery I've been working on the roads pretty much full time over the last few weeks so not much time for doing art or blogging about it. So it was really good yesterday, to kick back with a few others for a day of lino cutting at St. Andrew's Arts Centre in...
What I did on my holidays in Symi
Visit my Gallery After this week of record temperatures during which I've mostly been standing around on hot asphalt - where it was 52°C - wearing a plastic hat, man made trousers, reflective jacket and gloves, I found myself thinking back to May this year when I was...
Heart of Darkness revisited: Some lino prints
Visit my gallery While I was adding some more pictures to my gallery a couple of weeks ago, I came across a series of lino prints that I did for a local art project in 2017, based around Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/526...
Photography on a postcard: Urban Contemporary vs Street Photography
Visit my gallery For the last three years, I've been invited to submit mini artworks for a secret auction by Art on a Postcard http://www.artonapostcard.com. This brilliant art charity raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust’s campaign to eliminate hepatitis C in the UK by...
What a relief – a blog about lino cutting!
Visit my gallery Last weekend I did a lino cutting workshop at Northfleet Central, Northfleet Big Local's community centre http://www.northfleetbiglocal.com/ After a short demonstration, everyone got going and produced some amazing work - see the slideshow...