Ian Sidaway Fine Line

Thank you all for visiting both the fine line and the studio blogs, have a great Christmas and may the new year bring you all the good thin...

"Hampstead Heath! Glory of London! Where Keats walked and Jarmen fucked, where Orwell exercised his weakened lungs and Constable never...

"I stayed on the worm from dusk to midnight, sitting on that top grass, frightened to go further because of the rats and because of th...

"He who has seen paris but has not seen cassis can say: I have seen nothing." (Frederic Mistral) ...

"To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant and cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life...

"Colour is where our brain and the universe come together." (Paul Cezanne) "When the good...

"Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train." (...

"All gardening is landscape painting." (William Kent) "There is a time in the last few days of summe...