by Mike Mcinnerney | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog
On the first day of July 2020 I made my first visit to Stanmer Great Wood a local nature reserve which includes the village of Stanmer, Stanmer Park and Stanmer House. I painted on site through July and August in woods that features beech trees and bluebell woods in...
by Mike Mcinnerney | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog
Early morning mist rolling off Devils Dyke, view across grassy slopes and a chalk path at Ditchling Beacon just before another lockdown.
by Mike Mcinnerney | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog
One of the Stanmer Woods paintings featured in the previous blog was short listed last October for The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2020 and selected for exhibition at the Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery Basingstoke from 28 October 2020 to 16 January 2021...
by Mike Mcinnerney | Oct 12, 2019 | Blog
Dinah and I spent a week in a contemporary beach house called ‘Fog Signal Building’ set in a distinct piece of landscape on the Dungeness headland south of Romney Marsh. Scenery not unlike a bare stage made of shingle on which a few worn and faded props in the form of...
by Mike Mcinnerney | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog
Driving the narrow country lanes around Devil’s Dyke I came across a lay-by on Saddlescombe road opposite the entrance to the National Trust hamlet of Saddlescombe Farm hidden in the chalkland hills. The lay-by on the eastern side of Devil’s Dyke gave access to a...
by Mike Mcinnerney | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog
In May 2019 The New York based publishing company Apollo launched ‘Tommy at 50’ a book celebrating the making of The Who’s unique rock opera first released in May 1969. I wrote two chapters on the Mood and Look as background to the making of Tommy...
by Mike Mcinnerney | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog
The environmental science roadshow ‘Sex & Bugs & Rock ’n’ Roll’ http://festivalbugs.org/ made its regular appearance in the Green Future Fields at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival. The specially designed tent contained a series of my tree portraits as part of a...
by Mike Mcinnerney | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog
On the 8th of March 2019 there was a small gathering of people at the Alexandra Palace in North London to celebrate the refurbished and re-opened East Court and Theatre. The people who gathered had contributed to the heritage display in the East Court showing the...
by Mike Mcinnerney | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog
Maria Radoje, a member of the London based Meher Baba Association, wrote in November 2018 asking for help to design a series of posters celebrating ‘Amartithi’, the 50th anniversary of Meher Baba’s death (‘date with the Eternal’) on 31 January 2019....
by Mike Mcinnerney | May 23, 2018 | Blog
Spirit of 67 Richard McTague of RedHouse Originals Gallery in Harrogate organised an ‘In Conversation’ interview with myself and Dudley Edwards with Graham Chalmers, editor of the Harrogate Advertiser and co-organiser of the one day multi-media arts event...
