My 50th birthday celebrations have rolled on and on (still just about getting away wit

I have been asked if I do commissions of my ‘Owd Lasses many times for retirement presents, birthdays  etc and have finally relented.

I think customers get that these aren’t portraits but more a wrestling onto canvas of the spirit of our treasured older folk, warts and all. So if you have an Elsie (or an Albert!!) in your ancestry and you’d like them immortalised then give me a shout …

I would need some ideas of different stories for the setting- did they love the bingo, or maybe phrases they used and a general idea of appearance (headscarf, titfer, curlers, best coat colour even an old photo perhaps) then I will get going. The images are presented framed in a floating frame, with a metal tag for the title… prices start at £280 for your very own Owd Lass (Lad)… Please ask about timescales.

h it) but we went to see The Specials in Newcastle, haven’t been out on the toon for years- who knew it’s trendy to drink out of vases ?! Anyway wandered down to the Sunday Quayside market via the Bigg Market, bit sad to see it with so many empty businesses, but loads of inspiration for my latest ‘Owd Lasses ‘the Geordie Girls’ are jumping out of the canvas as we speak…pet 😉 strong, loud and proud can’t wait to introduce them to their Yorkshire Lass cousins… and guess the name of one of them??