I’ve been elected a member of the Chelsea Art Society, which is a rather nice thing to have happened. It was founded in 1910 by the painter and lithographer James Dromgole Linton (who during his lifetime was president of various institutions including the Royal Society of Oil Painters) and it holds an annual summer exhibition at Chelsea Old Town Hall, in the Kings Road.  I’ve shown there for the last few years, and will be there again in June (Thursday 16th – Monday 20th).

This is peak exhibition season.  I’ve just had a couple of paintings in the show that’s held every April in the Holland Park Orangery, just off Kensington High Street.  It’s a beautiful building, and the exhibition always includes intriguing ceramics (and masses of good, unframed work in the browser racks) as well as packing them in on the walls.

No luck with the the Royal Academy this year, but I’m getting work ready for an exhibition at the Piers Feetham Gallery, in the Fulham Road, in September.  More on that in future posts…

In the meantime, there are other artists to catch up with – I still haven’t seen the Giorgione exhibition at the Royal Academy, or the Botticelli drawings at the Courtauld.  And I want to go back for another look at the wonderful portraits of Russian writers, composers, actors and painters at the National Portrait Gallery: Russia and the Arts – an incredibly moving, vivid impression of the figures who galvanised Russian culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.