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In response to a recent post on my Facebook Group (‘Russell Dorey’s Studio’) about my imminent exhibition (at THE CROWN, All Saints Street, Hastings Old Town, East Sussex, TN34 3BN. From 17th NOvember to the 31st December 2020) my friend Gill commented that she loved the little painting of a single pear. She’s right; it’s […]

I like painting lemons and the best ones are the big lumpy lemons that you don’t find in supermarkets (a friend went to Brighton to buy lemons for me a month ago). Painting yellow is unlike painting anything else. I can’t build the forms methodically and analytically. The only way that I can finish paintings […]

Every week I cycle to Rye, up through Ore, down Battery Hill to Pett Level and then along the coast and through the bird sanctuary to Rye Harbour. It’s a fabulous ride and most of it is downhill or on the flat. I meet my Friday lunch buddy and then I peddle home, inland through […]

( My Massacre of the Innocents.  Oil on canvas.  34” x 29” ) Over a year ago I began working on my own version of a painting by Nicholas Poussin, the Massacre of the Innocents which he painted between 1625 and 1631. It is a complex painting, a riot of shapes and of colours and it […]

My father wrote a lot of letters to politicians and to the press. In these letters he would rant about a number of diverse issues, so his letters were not always succinct. I think that he wrote so many letters about the many subjects that exercised him that he may have relied upon the text […]

Someone wrote in my Facebook group (Russell dorey’s studio): “I’ve seen somewhere a piece of your work including a pair of spectacles. Would you ever use the same ‘prop’ twice?” ( Only a heap of broken images. 32″ x 38″ cay 569 ) Yes. I would and I do. I’m like a dog with a […]

When I was younger, so much younger than today I never needed anybody’s help in any way. But now these days are gone and I’m not so self assured… I’ve been looking at this painting. I wrote a post about it when it was finished some months ago, but I’ve already finished it so many […]

It’s still the afternoon of day one and I’m still in Cezanne’s beautiful studio at Les Lauves. I am jealous of that studio. A little French woman insisted on breaking into my reverie giving a terrible talk in not very good English. There were some interesting facts and some of it was rubbish but some […]

Ten minutes before Cezanne’s Studio reopened after lunch I was waiting on the road outside. Cezanne had his studio built on the hill, LES LAUVES, north of the town in 1901. The studio was then the only building beside the track that is now a busy road with houses and flats along it as Aix […]