Mervyn Peake 2013…

I finally sent my Mervyn Peake entries in last week. But fret not, arty Parkies – there is still time for you to enter, too; the closing date is 29 March. 2013, of course.

The categories are art (I sent in a cow. Actually, it’s not a cow, because it’s a boy), poetry (I wrote a poem loosely connected to the subject of the painting. Mostly not about cattle, though – more about a place), and photography (I didn’t enter that category, although I did use a photograph as a background to my poem).

The illustration to this post is the category that I ignored.

Cheeky cross-blog marketing ploy

I recently introduced you to my Art Blog.

If you have a wander round, you might find a few paintings of LEGO® minifigures. Little tiny things, 7 cm square, they are – just for fun, really. (I tend to consider the landscapes to be the “serious” work.) Over the past year, I have painted 56 minifigure paintings – and now I have collected them all together in a book.

Minifigures on…

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I’ve been neglecting you

It’s true, I have been neglecting you, my readers.

It’s nice that one or two of you noticed.

Mervyn Peake Awards 2012 – the awards ceremony – some extra stuff

After all the excitement of yesterday’s event, and writing it up in the wee small hours as I did, I completely forgot to include:

• A link to the official Parkinson’s UK Mervyn Peake page, where you can see the winners’ names modestly displayed, and where there is also …
• A link to the full list of Winners, including Highly Commendeds and Special Mentions with reproductions of the Art and Photography winning entries.

Mervyn Peake Awards 2012 – the awards ceremony

I don’t think I’ve ever been to an awards ceremony before.

So, my first ever awards ceremony was this: The Mervyn Peake Awards 2012, a celebration of the creativity of people with Parkinson’s. It was held at the Merchant Taylor’s Hall in the City of London, a most impressively grand venue.