2006 will be the third year I have hosted an Artists Open House. This curious compulsion started as a wheeze and has now grown into a neurosis.

The first year I was clueless and used the experience as an excuse for a party. I was the sole exhibitor and was pleasantly surprised to meet bags of interesting people who took time to seek me out. Last year I shared the space with other artists. This year I'm building on that and will have works very different from mine from Tony Ofori (abstracts), Julien Howells (fine art graphics) and Brian Lowe (oils and airbrush).

Despite my hairline my own tastes are mid to low brow and I enjoy brash vibrant accessible work. My own background is in old fashioned pen and ink. Since moving to the coast I've given up pen and ink for paints and have in the words of a colleague 'gone poncy.' I retain a love for out of fashion cartoonery but have catholic tastes and get a kick out of loads of stuff. I tend to respond best to figurative work but can be bowled over by colour or passionate renditions of anything. 

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