sea blue sky abstracts

Two new paintings on deep edge canvas ready for delivery to Art Space Gallery, St Ives  tomorrow.  As always, they are quite 'dark' and may look better with a white wood frame - I'll see how they look in situ first - the sides are painted after all, lol.  'Porthmeor West, Reflection' oil on deep edge canvas, 50 x 50 x 4 cm, unframed.   SOLD 'Wet Sand, Island Side' oil on deep edge canvas, 50 x 50 x 4 cm, unframed.   SOLD Click to enlarge.  Copyright Lesley Ninnes St Ives, Cornwall. PS   'Spot the Artist'  a sale of postcard sized artworks by a host of artists, known, unknown, emerging etc. including one by Yours Truly, can be viewed at St Ives School of Painting Roy Ray studio today (and tomorrow) between 10 - 4 pm, prior to the actual sale, which takes place from 9 am - 2 pm on Sunday, 20 September, 2015.  All artworks priced at £40 each  : )

The annual Rotary 'Spot the Artist' public event is underway and can be viewed today - Friday 19 and tomorrow Saturday 20 September - at St Ives School of Painting, from 10 am-4 pm.  Sale of the large postcard size artworks, all priced at £40 each, starts at 9 am on Sunday 21 September on a 'first come, first served' basis.   If you're in the area, make the time to have a look - there are so many desirable works of art to see.  I was lucky enough to attend the viewing preview yesterday evening and felt like a 'kid in a sweetshop' - there are so many to covet! The lovely painting below was one of the exhibits at 'Spot the Artist 2012'   'Wherrytown Beach, Penzance' by local artist Seth Marshall   Copyright Seth Marshall.  Click to enlarge.

The fundraising sale of 'postcard art' organised by the Rotary Club of St Ives was a great success again this year. The annual event offers members of the public the chance to buy postcard sized pieces of original art for just £35 - many of  which have been painted by well known artists, whose work would normally cost a lot more to buy. ' Cornwall, North Coast ' Lesley Ninnes 2013 oil on paper 21 x 15cm/8 x 6 inches Click to enlarge Rotarian Mike Clough reported: "The sale was held in the Roy Ray Studio at the St Ives School of Painting at Porthmeor Studios. Buyers were already queuing outside the studio by 4.00 p.m. in the afternoon before the sale and by 9.00 a.m the next morning the queue had reached as far as Bumble’s Tea Rooms in Digey Square. We sold over 100 paintings within the first hour of the sale. We had 240 entries given by almost 200 artists, mostly professionals but with a number of gifted amateurs. We sold all