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D-Day, 70 years ago today. Here’s a lithograph I made after I visited Arromanches recently. Many of these large concrete structures were made in Portsmouth where I live, and towed to France to be used as Mulberry Harbours. “Arrow” was the code name for the port at Arromanches and “Golden” was a reference to the […]

Historically Varnishing Day was a last chance for artists to view and varnish their work, before the exhibition opened to the public. Turner famously made substantial amendments to his paintings. I didn’t see anyone modifying their work today, but many participants had turned out to celebrate the occasion. A steel band stopped traffic on Piccadilly […]

The RCA Secret exhibition is open, and the party for the artists is tonight. Good luck finding those 3 Tierneys amongst the 2900 artworks! Royal College of Art, Dyson Building, 1 Hester Road, Battersea, London SW11 4AN Tel. 020 7590 4444 TWITTER@RCASecret DATES:13th to 22nd March 2014 OPENING TIMES 11am-6pm daily (until 9pm on 20 […]

Some images from the opening on Saturday. With 170 artists exhibiting there was a good turnout. The exhibition opens to the public today, and runs until the 4 January 2014. The dog pretending to be a parrot belongs to Emily Mayer.  

Look out for the Tierney in Flowers annual group show this year, opening this Saturday in London’s East End and running until 4 January 2014. The show, titled ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?’ takes it’s name from the series of paintings by Barnet Newman. Amongst the esteemed line up of fellow exhibitors are: […]

Thrilled to be included in the central London preview for the Creating Balance Project this week -as part of the London Design Festival & The Icon Design Trail. Thursday 12th September 2013 17.00 – 21.00 Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar, 3 Lowndes Court , Carnaby Street, London, W1F 7HD Talk / Seminar 1.30pm – 3pm  V&A Museum – 19th September 2013, Sackler […]

After a productive day of filming and photography in our studios, and many weeks editing, here is the completed film by Jonas Jakunas and Massimo Mazullo, also featuring Neal Layton and Cotton Candy Photography. View all the ten films and the project’s progress here…

Neal Layton and I are very excited to be participating in the Creating Balance Project:  a new, collaborative project with Anglepoise®, Strong Island & The University of Portsmouth celebrating a design classic and local creativity in Portsmouth. 10 artists/designers have been twinned with 10 photographers and an Anglepoise® light. We’ve been teamed up with photographers Gemma and Philippa from […]

  A gallery in a shed: shedshow #1. More infomation and images at the shedshow page and a Strong Island write-up here. Thanks to everyone who came along to the launch!   Photographs by Del Thomas          

… on its journey to the scrapyard