Greg KapkaFine Art

Back to the Blue House – 0il on Panel, 9″ x 11″ © 2012 ——————— This is one of the seventeen oils from my half of “Project Cathedral” – the exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral which Fraser & I put on this year (click to embiggen!) The polaroid shows the magnificent eastern aspect of the Cathedral, which is often overlooked in favour of […]

Fraser dreaming about what to spend his proceeds on.  ——————— I managed to steal a friend’s lovely 50mm f/1.8 Super Takumar lens for the duration of Fraser‘s and my exhibition this year, and so naturally spent much of the time we were invigilating the show pointing it at him whilst he daydreamed about spending his […]

Joseph Ruston – oil, approx. 30mm tall (detail from a much larger painting) —————— This portrait of Joseph Ruston is a detail from a much larger Project: Cathedral painting, exhibited earlier this year in Lincoln Cathedral. His links to Lincolnshire are many but the more obscure  one which prompted his inclusion in one of my paintings is […]

Toward The Crossing – oil on Panel, 9″ x 11″ © 2012 ——————— This is one of the seventeen oils from my half of “Project Cathedral” – the exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral which Fraser & I put on this year (click to embiggen!) Anyone visiting the cathedral can’t help but be impressed by the view of the […]

Despite the sunshine, I’ve been chained to my easel working on more Project: Cathedral pictures this weekend: And after a fecund day scrutinising a polaroid of the rather impressive sculpture at Lincoln’s Drill Hall, I then spent some of my evening queuing under the thing itself whilst waiting for beer. Unfortunately it was long (the queue, not the […]

After a dark & dreary day of painting which resulted in nothing more than a few wasted hours, the best I can show you is more Project: Cathedral teasing: If you squint at it, you can just about make out the snowflake! —————— Irrelevant Editorial Aside: The saddest thing about Russell Brand’s “My Booky Wook”  – apart […]

Project: Cathedral Teaser – 1 of 30 (?) ——————— I think, having never painted such a chunk of work for an actual exhibition before, that the blackboard here will serve well to illustrate the chaos slowly taking over this endeavour. ———————