Corner of the studio

Brunswick Gardens Kensington  1950s
Rolleiflex 4x4

The snug

The one and only Lina Romay

And cheesecake...

Christmas tragedy

hungover

The Thames

Boat trip on the Thames to Greenwich 1960s
Bit chilly.

Rolleiflex 4x4

Merry Christmas my friends.

                                                          

Outside stuff

Bit warmer inside.

News ?

Seasonal...

For some good winter coast scenes go here

Notting Hill

Afternoon walk ,Westbourne Grove 1960s
Rolleiflex 4x4

Kingston Art School

The girls from Kingston Art School in the 1920s.
I didnt go to this school alas,
but my father did.
lucky fellow
indeed.

Scrapbook 27

A visit to the London Zoo mid sixties
Rolleiflex 4x4

Drifting

M4. ?

TWEAKED

FLY GEE

And see the world.

Studio portrait

Olympus OM 4.  

ICE BLUE

The yard wating for summer.

Beware

London

I left London for the country life some 45 years ago but I still miss scenes like this.
Engrained in the memory.

Coast Road

                                            Revisited ......  Tablet.

Gee's RADIOGRAM

Four boats

Tablet

Winter sun

  

Thames....Docklands



Photo of London Tugboat steaming up the river pulling barges.
Taken from a pleasure boat on a trip to Greenwich mid sixties.
Not an skyscaping office block in sight
More interesting in those days.
Sad when the docks went.
and London lost its
character.

                  photo Rolleiflex 4x4



Lands edge

And a few gulls
                             Wacom Tableted today.

Sunnier times

1960s Summer in our old Notting Hill family garden

Fairground sketch



                                             Pen and ink

Waves

Oils on panel    1990s

Email from Japan

My friends Mei and Liv visiting Grandparents homes.

Ladies of the sky

dark sea

Oils enhanced.

My neighbourhood

South Korea and Japan meet Stonehenge.

Slimline Gee of the sixties

Holiday in Cornwall....no worries then...
Middle age spread yet to come.

Mersea Island........moorings

Silent Annie
Photo by Mersea Pearl

SPEED STUFF

You cant beat a good Vtwin.

MY DAD

On Studland Beach 1920s

Scrapbook 26

My daddy on his 20s combo Brough Superior which he managed to roll with my mother and oldest brother on board..
However they all survived and my parents went on to produce six more children me being one of them,
so I naturally inherited a love of motorbikes and also rolling them.

Geraldgee and nephew

Photographed 1947 or thereabouts in our Essex garden.I used to take him sailing in my dinghy but we lived !

WW1

The sort of plane my daddy used to fly....and crash.

Scrapbook 25

Postcard from WW1

Pond

Oils on board.

Degas...

Garden



Oil on board  1995



Studio

Image

"Sudden Death" the alternative to "Zeal"...

So named as it was a rowing boat of narrow beam with no centreboard that we foolishly put a sail on.
Drawn from memory by my brother Colin Grimes.

"Zeal"....Squall...Not all plain sailing

Getting wet on the Pyefleet
1947..Drawn from memory

"Zeal" Resting.

On the Pyfleet Marshes.
From memory 1947.

Lateral Thinking............

Scrapbook 24.....Claim to Fame.

geraldgee  wins victor ludorum at his school sportsday 1944...Too young to go to war thank god.

One for the kids

My last steed

Due to advancing age,brittle bones and fear of dropping off the thing which can hurt a bit I have given up bikes after 57 years of bashing the roads.and am now on boring four wheels and sit in traffic jams watching with envy bikers creaming by and disappearing rapidly round the corner ahead that I know is going to take me ten minutes to even reach in my tin box... The only time a car makes for better travelling is when it's raining or on a motorway.
From a Vespa to a Zephyr,and a lot of bikes in between,,thanks for the memory.

Summer afternoon by the canal

Antidote to my rather gloomy "winter beach" posted yesterday.Feeling better today!
This one another tablet go refurbishing an old oil on board I did last year..

I could write a book

Let us all be sloppy and dance the night away as we did once upon a time...

WINTER BEACH

Tablet painting...........This afternoon.