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To be honest - and I'm often MUCH too honest, but never mind - I wouldn't touch either the RA Summer Exhibition or a salon des refusés with a barge-pole. The one is crammed with pictures which have no chance whatever of being appreciated, and the other just says "mine wasn't good enough to get into the real thing". It's not the same as the real salon of days past: that was a rejection of the staid and conventional French Academy and a protest against it. Alternatives to the RA are more likely to be claiming that their work is just as good as the Academicians' (from what I've seen of the latter, it probably is) and would have been included had there been room. Not so much a salon des refusés as overspill....<div>
</div><div>Still - no shortage of cynicism here, as usual: but I wish you all the good fortune you could want with your painting.</div>
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Update:
The Royal Academy didn't want Avebury Sheep.
Not The Royal Academy did. (Llewellyn Alexander)
So the painting south of the river now, after a little wander around London. And I wonder - why am I the only person visible on the tube or on the streets carrying a bloomin' great painting? Does everybody else use taxis?
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Julie Driscol, Brian Auger Trinity, Brays Grove, Ab Fab, the Bootleg album, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Avebury Sheep, Llewellyn Alexander - is this a sub plot for Mahlers 9th? I heard that drinking sherry in your carpet slippers is the first sign of senility - well I've got my carpet slippers on - now where's that bottle,,,,,?
Oh there it is - and there's my lost brush - inside it.....!!
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I have been commissioned to help a business community alleviate the obstacles created by major road works. Eleven townscape paintings had to be created for the project.
I managed to complete the task just on time.
More details can be found here:
http://landscapeartblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/townscape-project-completed/