ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — Bath Experience

The Royal Crescent Bathed in the Spring Sun, 48" x 20", Oil on canvas, 2011

August 05, 2011 • Bath Experience • exhibition • oil on canvas

The Royal Crescent bathed in the spring sun, 48" x 20", Oil on canvas, 2011 SOLD

This painting of the Royal Crescent in Bath was done for my Bath Group show in May at The Bath Gallery. I went to Bath to do a study in graphite and then I took loads of pictures too. I came back to London with all the reference material and embarked on this piece, which is my largest painting of a place in Bath.

It...

Highlights of Peter Browns Solo Exhibition, "Bath Between the Snows"

May 16, 2011 • Bath Experience • exhibition • oil • Peter Brown

Pete working on "Beginning of a sunny October day, George Street, 2010

I have been very busy recently preparing for a group exhibition in June at Enid Lawson Gallery- it will be an exhibition of PAINTINGS OF LONDON, 8 - 22 June, 2011
by Chris Daynes, Michael Richardson, Karl Terry and me. Hence I have had a backlog of posts that are over due.

Pete making his humorous opening speech

This post is one I...

Bath Revisited II-CAPTURED AT THE CIRCUS!

February 15, 2011 • 6 x 8 • alla prima • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • landscape painting • me • oil on board • plein air

It was a wonderful day, I had a shot(painting) at the Circus from Gay Street the day before. Up till that moment I had never seen the Circus,but my little experience from the day before, gave me a vivid impression that the Circus was worth exploring!

"Easel does it by Jess Loughborough "SUNFACE13"

On the 21st of September I got out of my bed while the sun was shining with a glorious morning light...

Bath Revisited-Competition Winner, The Review and Some paintings

January 28, 2011 • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • competition • exhibition • Peter Brown • review

Last year I set up a competition on one of my posts after meeting the inspirational Peter Brown. The question to be answered was to decode the inspirational message Peter Brown wrote on his Exhibition catalogue for me. Laurie won! She decoded the message and her prize was that she would win a 6" x 8" painting of any location of her choice. She chose the Back of Pulteney Bridge at Bathand I...

MY BATH MARATHON EXHIBITION OPENS (212 plein air paintings of Bath)

December 07, 2010 • alla prima • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • exhibition • landscape painting • me • oil on board • oil on gessoed card • plein air

The Gallery Front

This is it! I give glory to God, when my Pastor started this year he preached a sermon on the 1st of January -titled, "THIS IS IT!" He said this year will be a "THIS IS IT, YEAR FOR US". I didn't and couldn't fully understand this but when I got to Bath and saw the gallery front with the 212 paintings, I just said, "THIS IS IT"!!!

Adebanji signing the Circus Panorama

It hasn't...