AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Good morning (this side of the Great Water anyway).
This is just a quick peice of information for anyone interested in selling their works online. Try esnips.com. You can show your art there and they have a 'paypal' service. (No, I do not work for eSnips). But it may be worth you checking out the possibilities and it is free.

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Greetings again to one and all. I thought that you might like to see where I work in my home studio.

The grey slab on the table is a mirror I am etching with my metaphysical montage, for a gift. The mirror backing is extremely hard to scratch through and my excitment in working on it is heightened by the fact that the mirror could crack at any time. I love the creative process and I often feel a little sad when a piece of my work is finished.

The plants growing from seed in the baskets that are hanging from the clothes rail, next to the patio door, are cherry tomatoes. I also have sweet peppers and chillies in pots below the baskets. Not only do these bring nature indoors but they are also delicious.

I have a great love and respect for the natural because it is the only true and incorruptable power that we have on this Earth (and everywhere else). I have mused that this is why I have an aversion to painting anything man-made.

I have had no formal art training since leaving secondary (high) school. I was made redundant in Truro, Cornwall, from Wheal Jane Tin Mine when the Government withdrew it's subsidy. Anyway there I was in tiny Truro with another 300+ men. There was no way I was going to get a job quickly and I had a young and growing family. So I learned how to acid etch and made my own etched jewellery for sale. It was going great, as I started from 'scratch' and without any real budget. But it came to an end when I had to sell everything because my wife wanted to move to Norfolk, to be near her mother. (Long story break). Since then I have returned to art and I have created works in leaded glass, etched glass, painted glass, and acrylic paint.So I can only create from my own mind and experiences. Maybe that is why I create the images that I do, because I admire Nature and I have had no other influences.

Good day good people. I hope and wish that all is well with you all right now.

I have just found a fault with the link to my Opera page (Opera's fault) and so I am now in the process of getting it fixed. If they can not resolve it, I will be ditching opera and moving my own links directly onto my site here. (Why don't I do that anyway?).

See you later, for an update on this issue.

(1704 BST): I have now sorted my Opera link myself and it now works (phew!). Oodles of joy.

What a wonderful website! I love it when people come together with a common bond, especially when it is positive with so much creative energies communicating and supporting each other.