Well known artist moves to France and blogs the experience

Well known artist moves to France and blogs the experience

Nigel Fletcher is a very well established and successful artist who for many years has been based in rural north Oxfordshire in England, an area he has captured in watercolours, acrylics and oils. These works have proved extremely popular in the many exhibitions that he has displayed his work at over the last two decades. You can enjoy a cross section of his work on his website: http://www.nigelfletcher.co.uk/

For nearly two years now Nigel has been successfully creating and selling a painting a day. These smaller and thus less expensive works have proved very popular and follow both the seasons and Nigel's travels, they can be viewed at: http://www.nigelfletcher.co.uk/cotswold-sketchbook/

Now, in a major move, Nigel is living full time in the Limoges area of central France, a transition that is proving to be an artist's inspiration.: "The light here is so different to that in the Cotswolds, as are the seasons, this is allowing me to use light and colour in new ways to interpret what I see. Also the pace of French life and their culture create a whole ambiance which cannot help but be reflected in my work".

So that others can share this experience Nigel is writing a blog: http://cotswoldsketchbook.blogspot.com/ which creates an interesting insight into the artist's life and work.

Bruce on Politics

February 2, 2011 --
Bruce Everiss is the author of the popular Bruce on Games and Bruce on Shaving blogs. Now he has turned his keyboard to politics from a UK perspective with Bruce on Politics http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/ This looks at how our society is run, based on a lifetime of observation and a healthy dose of cynicism. Experience tells Everiss that the state is vastly too big, that the freedom of individuals has been taken away to an enormous extent and that we have a dependency culture that saps enterprise.

The stance of the blog is liberal, free enterprise and minimum government. Everiss is excited with the new enterprise: "The whole idea is to come from left field and to provoke thought whilst expressing my own political views. There is a lot that politicians are failing to do to make this a better world, now I can tell them".