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Today – a continuation of the Love story no.2.   It’s an early night, a fine rain starting to drizzle, the bike path getting wetter and more slippery.

My brother said the other day: ” I never thought I am a foodie until I moved to London.” That’s all thanks to the abundant markets around town and all the wonderful food there is on offer there. This is a picture of my neighborhood one – the Broadway market. A side street off of it on the market day, when the coffee man brings his pop up coffee shop to the intersection of Broadway and Dericote St. on Saturdays.

On the way to the West End. This is one of the least pleasant parts of the journey, looked paint – worthy yesterday for some reason, must have been the clear skies.

19 x 19 cm, oil on panel, 2011, buy it here

Other skies: 

Popped in to Cowling & Wilcox today for fresh art supplies, spotted this scene across the street from the shop.

Today’s image is of the reflection of the beautifully renovated Spitalfields houses. I have been hanging out in the area a lot lately, for a good reason, more about it later on. Must confess though that the inspiration of Anthony Eyton’s work on the area had a lot to do with my inspiration on the subject.

2011, oil on panel, 19 x 19 cm, sold

other Spitalfields-related work:

On the way into town the other day. The afternoon sun shone gloriously through the trees, helped me overlook how long we were stuck in the traffic due to the commotion caused by Obama’s arrival in London.

2011, oil on panel, 19 x 19 cm, sold

other City paintings:

A guy who was walking around Lviv with the largest bunch of the balloons on 18 April.

Not complaining about the lack of sun any more. It’s here and others noticed it too.  Today’s picture is of stylish market goers, flaunting their summer garb.

2011, oil on panel, 19 x 19 cm, contact for availability

other pics from the Broadway market series:

Now that the BP portrait award show participation (not with this pic though) has dawned on me, I’ve put together a flickr set of my portraits that I’ve done to date.  I am still beyond myself about this happening to my work, can’t wait till the private view of the show in June to meet all the other artists in it. Don’t have the photo of the self-portrait that is going to be hung at the National Portrait Gallery  to show off here, it was all too much of a last minute operation to finish it and get to the jury on time. But basically, it’s a small picture of myself squinting at the sun.

Speaking of the sun, loved how it brought out the grand architectural detail in this building nearby the Royal Academy.