Andrew Pitt Exhibition and Painting Course

Andrew Pitt  - featured in our DVD Watercolour Pure and Simple -  is the Guest Artist at The Little Gallery, 5 Market Place, Halesworth, Suffolk where he is exhibiting a group of his watercolours until Saturday, 20 November, The gallery is open Mondays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Gallery and exhibition details here: Litlle Gallery Exhibition

Andrew is also tutoring a course, Watercolours for Beginners at Flatford Mill, Friday, 12th to Sunday, 14th November  Telephone Flatford Mill on 01206 297110 for more information, and a weekend Oil Painting course at the Watershed Studio, St. Osyth on Saturday, 20th/ Sunday 21st November Ring Allison at St. Osyth on 01255 820466 for details.

Your can view  a trailer here: Andrew's DVD Watercolour Pure and Simple

Brian Ryder's New Book

Norfolk based artist Brian Ryder has just brought  out a new book to follow on from his latest DVD  Atmospheric Oil Landcsapes.

It's available on this link:Brian Ryder's New Book

The picture on the cover is one of four he paints on the DVD.

It's available here: Atmospheric Oil Landscapes DVD

Brian Ryder  had an interesting insight into how people value his work while he was out filming recently for his latest DVD   The theme of the film was for Brian to explore the Norfolk landscape that inspired  the late Edward Seago and put his own interpretation on the flat open scenes with huge skies. Brian was filming in the middle of Halvergate marshes about half way between Norwich and Great Yarmouth when he was approached by the owner of the land he was painting on – a weather-beaten, mud-encrusted son of the soil driving an elderly mud-caked Land Rover. After examining the picture for a few moments the farmer told Brian the picture was “not half bad” and enquired as to its price. Brian told him. The farmer looked as if he had just lost his milk quota. “What?” he stammered. “That’s more than four cows! Is it for sale?” Brian was tempted to make a sale but had to politely decline as he says he couldn’t get the cows into the boot of his hatchback.]

Brian is now considering pricing all his work this way. He recently had a an 80+ piece one man exhibition at the Picture Craft Gallery in Holt, Norfolk when small works went for a sheep and two chickens and larger pieces  for several Gloucester Old Spots.

Brian is a popular teacher and demonstrator and the  author of a number of books on painting technique.

Visit Brian's website here: Brian Ryder Landscape Painter

Welcome to our blog

Hello from Town House Films. We have launched this blog so that our thousands of customers and friends around the world can catch up with all our latest news. You will be able to see eclsuive pictures from upcoming productions and we also will keep you posted on the  activities of the many artists we work with.

This is us on location for our fourth DVD with the wonderful watercolour and pastel painter John Tookey. From lefty to right - Steve Thorpe, camerman extroadinaire who has filmed all our 32 DVDs to date, me - Malcolm Allsop, founder of the company and director of all our films, John Tookey and Dr Robin Macdonald, himself a talented watercolour painter and associate producer of many of our DVD titles.

Here's another location shot, this time  from Watercolour Weekend with Hazel Soan on a rather chilly pier at Cromer in North Norfolk. Hazel was painting people on the pier but got buzzed by a flock of hang gliders - so she just painted them.

Here's another on location shot featuring the delightful watercolourist John Hoar taken while filming Simplyfying Watercolour at Blakeney on the North Norfolk Coast.

And from our range of artist's studio based DVDs here's Jo, the lovely wife of Peter Wileman, President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters helping out with the clapper board as we shoot his latest DVD Inspirational Oil Landscapes.

Lots more posts to come in the coming days. Don't forget you can view free  trailers for all our DVDs and buy them fom us direct on our web site http://www.townhousefilms.co.uk/ We ship from China to Brazil - and everywhere in between and all post free!