the artists wife

Pump Room, Bath

“Pump Room in the Snow” is a large studio watercolour by my husband Alan Reed based on studies made on location in Bath.

Over the last two years he entered the Bath Prize, a painting competition  held annually in Bath where contestants are given a specific location in Bath to paint “plein air”. Once they have painted their allocated scene before the competition deadline, they can enter other paintings they may have done of Bath.

In 2010 he came runner up with the painting of the Royal Crescent and in 2011 and won first prize for the best painting of the Circus in Bath.

The little girl dressed in a bright red coat (our eldest granddaughter Emily) added an important focal point to the composition. The original watercolour can be seen at the Studio & Gallery in Ponteland.

Fab Art

This fabulous watercolour painting by Alan Reed of “Great Pulteney Street” Bath, has been sold by the Octagon in Bath.

This is where all the finalists for the “Bath Prize 2010”  have been on display. This particular painting was done on location with Alan holding a paintbrush in one hand and a umbrella in the other !!

The exhibition ends on Saturday 9th October at 5.00pm if you would like to view some of the others.

Roman Baths by Torchlight

Roman Baths

The Royal Crescent, Bath

Visit:

www.alanreed.com

http://blog.alanreed.com

The Biscuit Factory

We had a lovely time today with our dear friends Mike & Kay. We met at the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle which is an amazing Art Gallery with a vast selection of paintings,prints, sculpture, glass, ceramics and jewelry. It was such a pleasure to look around again as we haven’t been for ages.

We decided to stay there for lunch and had an outstanding meal (2 courses fro £10) in the restaurant which was very elegant with comforting aromas coming from the kitchen. I could definitely recommend it and can’t wait to go back again.

In the afternoon we went back to our house so that Mike & Kay could see some of Alan Reed’s paintings and a coffee before Alan took them back to the Station. To end the day and record the memory Alan did a sketch of Newcastle Central Station.

Take a look at Alan’s blog later where I’m pretty sure that he will show you the sketch.