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Welcome. My name is Michael Featherstone, I am an artist and writer based in the North East of England. I love paint and like to try to represent the subject using simple brush strokes, especially with portraits. I like the boldness of Van Gogh, the Fauves, the Expressionists and many more. I am also interested in buildings as a record of a particular time and place. My conceptual paintings and sculptured boxes represent the mind and spaces. Many of my paintings feature roads that are a metaphor for the mind's journey through life. It's 2012 now - Tony Charles had a new exhibition at Platform Arts and as always well worth seeing. I have three portraits on exhibition at McMillan College together with AB1 (above). On Wednesday 11th April Stephen Ashurst from Matlock demonstrated portrait painting at Hartlepool Art Club. - Magnificent especially considering the short time available. Its August 2012. I have taken 4 new paintings (See above) and framed prints to Arts Bank. Arts Bank is now opening at 137 High Street, in Yarm. (Just over the bridge.) 3rd & 4th of November. Popped in Saturday morning. Lots of bright and cheerful pictures including McKenzie Thorpe & Rolf Harris. Ray Lonsdale's metal sculptures were on display in the courtyard. Brilliant as usual. On Saturday the 17th of November Paul & I visited the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. The paintings of old times were deeply absorbing. We went onto the Baltic which was packed with all kinds of interesting things created by Jim Shaw and Bojan Fajfric. Next Exhibition is at Hartlepool Art Gallery Preview 16 Nov last day 5th Jan 2013. Friday 3rd of May 2013. Cleveland Art Society opened its exhibition at Cafe Infinity on Stockton's Riverside. It's a smashing place for a drink, a meal or a cup of coffee surrounded by great views and art work. It's on Moat Street just off the river road before reaching the Yarm Road - Thornaby bridge roundabout. (I am also a writer on the subject of Life After Death. See blog)

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