Masterpiece
Most great painters produce one iconic piece that comes to symbolise their work. For Leonardo da Vinci it is "The Mona Lisa". For Vincent Van Gogh, it's "Sunflowers" and for Yorkshire Pudding, it's "Semi in the Suburbs". Quite a few of the people who visit this blog have called for photos of my handiwork. After all, I might have just been making the whole painting project up. Anyway, I insist it was all true and here's the evidence... Back of the house Front of the house Side of the house The man-sized void at the back corner that gave me the willies I joined the pigeons for a week Close up of the pebble dash rendering - though painted, little craters remain As art critic, Waldemar Januszczak said in "The Sunday Times", '"Semi in the Suburbs" speaks powerfully of our age. It looks to the west, the east and the south and is a tribute to the endeavours of the ordinary working human and what might...