Diary up to end October 2024

Annual Open Studio in aid of the National Star College; Linc - the blood cancer charity and The Friends of The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum.

Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th December

12-5pm

22 Priory Lane, Bishops Cleeve GL52 8JL

Online sale of a small number of miniatures from Monday 9 December 18.00h London time

PJ is now represented by

Portland Gallery 3 Bennet Street, St. James’s London SW1A 1RP

They will be showing new paintings at the London Art Fair in January and in PJ’s solo exhibition in June 2025

BIRD GARDEN

tinted lesson on canvas& painted wood frame 45 × 55 inches

with Bonino Gallery, NYC

Filmed at the Fresh Art Fair 2024

Earlier this year marked the bi-centenary of Byron’s death and whilst reading a review in the Times Literary Supplement, I spotted a paragraph that said, whilst a student at Cambridge, Byron kept a bear as the rules forbade the keeping of dogs (but not bears). On further research I discovered that the poet always loved animals and kept an ever-growing menagerie, which Percy Shelley lists as comprising ‘ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it…PS I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective…I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane.’ Added to which there were mentions by others of a crocodile, two geese he saved from the butcher’s block when living in Pisa, a goat with a broken leg, a tame wolf, a fox and a parrot.

Details of the book and film starring Toyah Willcox as 19th century painter Rolinda Sharples and PJ as herself