mum

Prompted to post
by Glen;s lack of a picture of his mum yesterday,
this was my mum 30 or more years ago.
painted 2011

21st April 2013: no tan lines....

enjoying a sunny Sunday dog walking over the marshes...

Photo taken by Glen Byford with a HTC Desire C and edited using Aviary and Instagram, 21st April 2013

March 22nd 2013: snowing in spring

the 'official' first day of spring was earlier this week, yet this morning I was stood at the bus stop whilst it snowed

*photo may be edited

Photo taken by Glen Byford using a HTC Desire C and 'edited' in Aviary, 22nd March 2013

February 23rd 2013: Smile

Inspired by my day out today (and Jock)

Drawn by Glen Byford, using the Paper app on the 'new' ipad, February 23rd 2013

October 24th: SoundArt10

this took far longer than it should have done and the end result was nothing like i expected it to be.

what it is, is the first song i have ever written on a guitar, utilising 3 whole chords in true status quo style






inspired by artwork created by Ian Byford

Music created by Glen Byford using a cheap guitar and the 'new' ipad, completed on october 24th 2012

October 16th: where cigarettes grow on trees

having picked up NME's covered version of Up The Bracket i decided to revisit an old Libertines compilation i made, with artwork provided by Ian Byford

Photo taken by Glen Byford using 'the new' ipad, and edited using picstitch and instagram, 16th October, 14:59pm

Posted via DraftCraft app

Byford Family Tree

Can you trace your roots

The Intention was to burn the wood,
 this is how it was found cut into three,
in a front garden across town.
Such fine pruning skills of the amateur gardener
must be preserved.

This in not a joke its ART.
Many trees have their lives cut short
in the name of christmas.
not in our house.

The present dead tree has had a life of about six years,
this may replace our first long life dead tree,
or be joined in holy woodlock
Side by side,
As a forest. 

Shoreditch I'm not for sale

Stu's View

Every woman deserves to look her best
but their is some thing about the
original picture hat gives it an edge 

Byford 's Beef about Opera

The Sidney Opera House

All you will ever need to know
about

Fray Bentos 

Fray Bentos Piesand they taste great  

july 29th: urban art gallery

armed with a new 'smart' phone, I was ready to capture this uniquely displayed painting spotted whilst cycling home from work.

taken by Glen Byford, using a HTC desire C, 29th July 2012

Man about Town self-portrait

Well it's a Old Town

SHOREDITCH

London

                       Sunday 17 June 2012. Shoreditch London.

                  

It felt uncomfortable to walk out on to the street, and not see
familiar buildings, land marks that had been there over a century,
that was the feeling, unexpected bewilderment.
As the new face of the city pushes its massive sleek engineered
Crystal towers sky would,
 The surrounding deprivation awaiting its injection, of societies
drug, money. Meanwhile the pop up shops,
small time street traders scratching a living out of next to nothing
and the wannabe entrepreneurs make it a lively relaxed
community with hope.


Links of inspiration. Gerard Rancinan at  Londonewcastle

                                                         ELCAF         Village Underground 

                                                   Take a look at      Shoreditch

Hertford Art a day-out

                          

Pictures taken  in Hertford, on my walk back to Hertford East Railway Station

after visiting Hertford Art Society Annual Exhibition,

I try to visit the exhibition each year,

this year the painting that got my vote was 

a very striking bright vibrant swirling modern    Acrylic work by Raymond Whyard

titled Castle Combe.

In-respect for other artists work you will just have to imagine the scene    

Castle Combe  Village link 

                  Hertford

 

Life Line

Latest picture is a hand painted on
board with a cobweb not sure if
its going to be a spider or little man dangling,
I am planing to cut the feature lines of the hand with a lino tool.
and this is my new logo for the web  

OUT OF CONTROL

Influenced by a photo I had take of a mirrored mannequin
sitting in a shop window,
My abstract brain imagines this as the affects of a speeding wheelchair user,
out of control, or has the occupant calculated it all
 and just living life on the edge.        

A acrylic work by Stuart Byford, on plywood  8 x 10 

Framed with photoshop. 

No planing permission needed

                                  Stu's View,  A Byford Installation 

Some of my work old and new, the large Georgian house 

around which the works are featured is a unwanted dolls house 

dumped in the street, a coat of paint and screwed to the wall

now a ideal CD rack in the bedroom. 

The beard thats a self portrait completed a night or so ago.    

For six hours I gently caressed the shapely curves of her body in yesterdays warm sunshine

A stu's View,   12 x 8 Acrylic  on board.

With the tip of my paint brush

                                        

Art

Stu's View

Art where does it come from the hart the mind the deepest part 

of our subconscious or

can you get it straight from a tin? 

Imagining  opening tin after tin to find one you like.

Don't spill any ! 

No trickery just photographed as I stirred
Then a little balancing of light and contrast.
 

He actually shouted to me as I stirred
 I wont to-be famous. 

Just the other-side of the fence

Stu's View  8 x 8  Acrylic on recycled hard board.

Now with all the practice 

painting is more of a pleasure

the paint easier to manipulate.

Just wish my writing skill came easier.      

Last night spent

when I started panting this last night,
my inspiration was coming from
a Polish paper.
Not being able to read Polish,
I was not totally sure when the game was,
or who was playing.

Thank you google.

Super bowl 2012