Friday 31 December 2010

Corner of the studio

Brunswick Gardens Kensington  1950s
Rolleiflex 4x4

Wednesday 29 December 2010

Tuesday 28 December 2010

Monday 27 December 2010

The Thames

Boat trip on the Thames to Greenwich 1960s
Bit chilly.

Rolleiflex 4x4

Friday 24 December 2010

Merry Christmas my friends.

                                                          

Thursday 23 December 2010

Outside stuff

Bit warmer inside.

Wednesday 22 December 2010

Monday 20 December 2010

Seasonal...

For some good winter coast scenes go here

Sunday 19 December 2010

Notting Hill

Afternoon walk ,Westbourne Grove 1960s
Rolleiflex 4x4

Wednesday 15 December 2010

Kingston Art School

The girls from Kingston Art School in the 1920s.
I didnt go to this school alas,
but my father did.
lucky fellow
indeed.

Tuesday 14 December 2010

Scrapbook 27

A visit to the London Zoo mid sixties
Rolleiflex 4x4

Saturday 11 December 2010

Friday 10 December 2010

Thursday 9 December 2010

FLY GEE

And see the world.

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Studio portrait

Olympus OM 4.  

Tuesday 7 December 2010

ICE BLUE

The yard wating for summer.

Monday 6 December 2010

Sunday 5 December 2010

London

I left London for the country life some 45 years ago but I still miss scenes like this.
Engrained in the memory.

Friday 3 December 2010

Coast Road

                                            Revisited ......  Tablet.

Thursday 2 December 2010

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Monday 29 November 2010

Thames....Docklands


Photo of London Tugboat steaming up the river pulling barges.
Taken from a pleasure boat on a trip to Greenwich mid sixties.
Not an skyscaping office block in sight
More interesting in those days.
Sad when the docks went.
and London lost its
character.

                  photo Rolleiflex 4x4


Saturday 27 November 2010

Lands edge

And a few gulls
                             Wacom Tableted today.

Sunnier times

1960s Summer in our old Notting Hill family garden

Friday 26 November 2010

Fairground sketch


                                             Pen and ink

Tuesday 23 November 2010

Waves

Oils on panel    1990s

Monday 22 November 2010

Email from Japan

My friends Mei and Liv visiting Grandparents homes.

Sunday 21 November 2010

Friday 19 November 2010

dark sea

Oils enhanced.

Wednesday 17 November 2010

My neighbourhood

South Korea and Japan meet Stonehenge.

Monday 15 November 2010

Slimline Gee of the sixties

Holiday in Cornwall....no worries then...
Middle age spread yet to come.

Friday 12 November 2010

Mersea Island........moorings

Silent Annie
Photo by Mersea Pearl

Thursday 11 November 2010

SPEED STUFF

You cant beat a good Vtwin.

Wednesday 10 November 2010

MY DAD

On Studland Beach 1920s

Friday 5 November 2010

Scrapbook 26

My daddy on his 20s combo Brough Superior which he managed to roll with my mother and oldest brother on board..
However they all survived and my parents went on to produce six more children me being one of them,
so I naturally inherited a love of motorbikes and also rolling them.

Thursday 4 November 2010

Geraldgee and nephew

Photographed 1947 or thereabouts in our Essex garden.I used to take him sailing in my dinghy but we lived !

Wednesday 3 November 2010

WW1

The sort of plane my daddy used to fly....and crash.

Monday 1 November 2010

Scrapbook 25

Postcard from WW1

Wednesday 27 October 2010

Pond

Oils on board.

Monday 25 October 2010

Sunday 24 October 2010

Garden


Oil on board  1995


Saturday 23 October 2010

Friday 22 October 2010

"Sudden Death" the alternative to "Zeal"...

So named as it was a rowing boat of narrow beam with no centreboard that we foolishly put a sail on.
Drawn from memory by my brother Colin Grimes.

"Zeal"....Squall...Not all plain sailing

Getting wet on the Pyefleet
1947..Drawn from memory

Thursday 21 October 2010

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Scrapbook 24.....Claim to Fame.

geraldgee  wins victor ludorum at his school sportsday 1944...Too young to go to war thank god.

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Friday 15 October 2010

My last steed

Due to advancing age,brittle bones and fear of dropping off the thing which can hurt a bit I have given up bikes after 57 years of bashing the roads.and am now on boring four wheels and sit in traffic jams watching with envy bikers creaming by and disappearing rapidly round the corner ahead that I know is going to take me ten minutes to even reach in my tin box... The only time a car makes for better travelling is when it's raining or on a motorway.
From a Vespa to a Zephyr,and a lot of bikes in between,,thanks for the memory.

Wednesday 13 October 2010

Summer afternoon by the canal

Antidote to my rather gloomy "winter beach" posted yesterday.Feeling better today!
This one another tablet go refurbishing an old oil on board I did last year..

Tuesday 12 October 2010

I could write a book


Let us all be sloppy and dance the night away as we did once upon a time...

Monday 11 October 2010

WINTER BEACH

Tablet painting...........This afternoon.