tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54307795405146252792024-02-19T13:25:58.169+00:00Gerald Fleuss's blogWelcome to my blog. My work involves calligraphy, illumination, painting and graphic design and my other main interests are railways, classical music and amateur dramatics.Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-59122627824942471142023-09-10T11:45:00.001+01:002023-09-10T11:45:30.405+01:00<p> This is my most recent painting, Neath Riverside shed in the 1960s on a visit with the British Locomotive Society with two of my pals in evidence</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZOIiXYJoBSzbRTwy41cyQ21iOtVBJ5eOWrxjfkcNB0TxBGnf9X7Y-SxghG4_SbtU7vg8Tzda1fjbwMYbO_RCR7zopQe9ie8FbEvKSSsWP8bT4X0oz_QNtlKQBPukjPxCdV7ma5fFfCVZBnnR993c3W514oyBL0_ijWCAB3ZOG55SvgiUXRogqWIvjjY/s1759/3739%20painting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="1759" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZOIiXYJoBSzbRTwy41cyQ21iOtVBJ5eOWrxjfkcNB0TxBGnf9X7Y-SxghG4_SbtU7vg8Tzda1fjbwMYbO_RCR7zopQe9ie8FbEvKSSsWP8bT4X0oz_QNtlKQBPukjPxCdV7ma5fFfCVZBnnR993c3W514oyBL0_ijWCAB3ZOG55SvgiUXRogqWIvjjY/s320/3739%20painting.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-364755948914470922022-01-11T16:05:00.003+00:002022-01-11T20:28:15.778+00:00<p> My latest oil painting is of Grimsby-registered trawler "Sparkling Line' at Shoreham Harbour</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4Zep4P3dwWKNIWtIJbdJjqSLPhCj211qzwyd-qcVc_mzjgcUIy4i33l_eWVkJsFB27XwltbElKj-ageY-GAf7GI9FWCntPyi4flVTxx1RNVHtCE65piS0HsfDjLorDefxXgU9GvD_YiEChjvlF9x0gUID7bBdfZSUTmktZwSiauyk1f52xoMQ8Hp-=s2362" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="2362" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4Zep4P3dwWKNIWtIJbdJjqSLPhCj211qzwyd-qcVc_mzjgcUIy4i33l_eWVkJsFB27XwltbElKj-ageY-GAf7GI9FWCntPyi4flVTxx1RNVHtCE65piS0HsfDjLorDefxXgU9GvD_YiEChjvlF9x0gUID7bBdfZSUTmktZwSiauyk1f52xoMQ8Hp-=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-88429508021334471902021-07-28T12:16:00.000+01:002021-07-28T12:16:22.955+01:00<p> Here is my most recent oil painting. It's of 'West Country' class 4-6-2 No 34046 'Braunton' arriving at Sheffield Park, Bluebell Railway on a 'Cathedrals Express' excursion.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdlY-cNkzY37ga2T5QVg_BT81H5zXYxA5_WDwT88Lv7GRuqUK_xhWhfiV8HzMEBw1a8wlN6tCO4wS6tcIICwknXJgdcZ2ZyjETSu8oKsLfuQ94VBHH1LQ-81t28oP901rJfZDDhuC3QYY/s2048/34046+iPad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdlY-cNkzY37ga2T5QVg_BT81H5zXYxA5_WDwT88Lv7GRuqUK_xhWhfiV8HzMEBw1a8wlN6tCO4wS6tcIICwknXJgdcZ2ZyjETSu8oKsLfuQ94VBHH1LQ-81t28oP901rJfZDDhuC3QYY/s320/34046+iPad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-16117920390669819072020-09-16T14:58:00.000+01:002020-09-16T14:58:11.565+01:00<p> My latest painting is entitled 'Mind the Gap'. 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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-63931749935981744792019-06-04T20:49:00.001+01:002019-06-04T20:49:03.952+01:00My latest painting is of SECR 'H' class 0-4-4T No. 263 on a Wealden Rambler at Sheffield Park, Bluebell Railway.<br />
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<b><i>Giants of Steam</i></b> - A scene at Sheffield Park on the Bluebell Railway featuring A4 Pacific No. 60009 'Union of South Africa'. 13th Oct 2018.</div>
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-62685895970999223222017-12-31T16:22:00.000+00:002017-12-31T16:30:30.215+00:00Here is my current painting work in progress. It depicts BR Standard Class '5' No. 73082 'Camelot' on the Bluebell Railway at Sheffield Park.<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-65753631452722348912017-06-19T13:53:00.001+01:002017-06-19T13:53:03.281+01:00This is my most recent railway painting. It depicts BR 'Britannia' class Pacific No. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' passing Lewes on a special train commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Lewes to Seaford branch line. (oil on board)<br />
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Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-23001446600051836632016-06-03T16:59:00.002+01:002016-06-03T16:59:42.273+01:00I'm currently appearing as a Male Super in the Glyndebourne production of Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg' which runs until the end of June. It's a revival of the 2011 production directed by Sir David McVicar starring Gerald Finley in the lead role of Hans Sachs. The orchestra is the LPO conducted by Michael Güttler. Here is a snap of me and my other Male Super pals in our dressing room (I'm in the brown hat).<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-29495220284859600152015-05-28T17:07:00.000+01:002015-05-28T17:07:08.286+01:00Recently appeared as Dr Richard Forth in 'Prescription for Murder' by Norman Robbins at Wivelsfield Little Theatre. Here's the review in the 'Middy'. Unfortunately I was the victim and it was my wife wot dun it!<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-88199024095255300182014-12-21T22:13:00.001+00:002014-12-21T22:13:44.099+00:00On 14th October at Kidderminster Railway Museum I was elected an Associate Member of the Guild of Railway Artists. My painting of two Great Western Prairie tanks at Southall in the 1960s featured in their latest Newsletter 'Wheel and Palette'<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-90139739470342137362014-09-25T17:25:00.000+01:002014-09-25T17:25:21.725+01:00I'm currently rehearsing for the Ditchling Players next production <i>The Nightingales</i> a comedy by Peter Quilter in which I'm cast as Charlie. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Set in the home of a cabaret star, Jack, the rhythm of his comfortable life is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of his parents, who were themselves a Music Hall act, ‘Charlie and Beat’. Why they have suddenly descended on Jack is unclear; then his mother disappears.</span><br />
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Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-29484861811830535632014-09-25T09:07:00.001+01:002014-09-25T09:07:21.956+01:00Saturday 13th September was Haywards Heath Town Day. The Tour of Britain Cycle Race was scheduled to pass through the town at around midday immediately after which there was a parade through the main street of the The Royal Yeomanry, led by a military band. This was the prelude to the granting by Mid Sussex District Council of Freedom of Entry to the District to the Regiment whose headquarters are in Croydon. I was commissioned to produce an illuminated address to mark the event and managed to attend the ceremony and take a few photographs.<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-46218240791895333402014-04-27T14:40:00.003+01:002014-04-27T14:46:51.184+01:00Nice surprise coverage of our exhibition and demonstrations at the White Horse in the <a href="http://www.westsussextoday.co.uk/news/calligraphy-demonstrated-during-artists-open-houses-in-ditchling-1-6016934#.U1yQXKpl2fc.twitter">West Sussex Gazette</a>Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-27047125570735046512014-04-01T09:36:00.000+01:002014-04-01T15:14:08.194+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Patricia Gidney, Max Brownrigg and I have been hanging our exhibition of paintings, calligraphy and collages at the White Horse Inn in Ditchling. It fills the bar and restaurant areas and consists of about 60 pieces. The exhibition runs until the end of June and during weekends and Bank Holidays in May becomes part of the Art in Ditchling Trail itself incorporated into Brighton Artists Open Houses. This is my very rough and ready snap of my corner of the bar. <a href="http://artinditchling.wordpress.com/">http://artinditchling.wordpress.com/</a>Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-64008508535838441002013-12-08T10:51:00.004+00:002013-12-08T10:51:55.548+00:00A very wet day at the Bluebell on 9th November. Rebuilt Bulleid 'West Country' Pacific No. 34046 'Braunton' was the main attraction having worked in on a special from London Victoria.<br />
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Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-69402207537249102792013-10-19T09:49:00.000+01:002013-10-20T11:00:43.037+01:00Yesterday was the opening of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Wisdom">Sir Norman Wisdom</a> exhibition space in Haywards Heath organised by his son Nick. Nick, who once played county cricket for Sussex, owns a sports shop in the town and was my first client after I moved home from Cambridge to Ditchling back in 1995. My most recent commission was designing the lettering for his new shop fascia which was then fabricated in stainless steel by BEL Signs of Horsham.<br />
For the exhibition Nick had me doing the calligraphic labelling for the framed panels and showcases. These contain memorabilia and artefacts from Sir Norman's career going back to his film and stage debuts back in the 1940s. For me it has been a wonderfully nostalgic trip to my childhood when, like the rest of the population, we were entranced by his antics in such films as <i>The Square Peg</i>. Latterly of course he became very popular, indeed revered, in Albania!<br />
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<i>Wisdom Sports, South Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex</i></div>
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<i>At the opening we were hugely entertained by this marvellous impersonator/lookalike <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXYF2rgSVus&noredirect=1">Glenn Ford</a></i></div>
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<i>The Sir Norman Wisdom exhibition, The Orchards, Haywards Heath</i></div>
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I designed the poster using Brioso Pro by my favourite type designer Robert Slimbach.<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-27219752859135573952013-10-15T15:01:00.001+01:002013-10-15T15:01:20.081+01:00This is my painting of Bagnall 0-4-0 saddle tank Works No.2542 <i>Jubilee</i> built in 1936. I purchased this locomotive in the early 1970s from Bowaters at Sittingbourne and had it running on track laid at New Buildings Farm, Great Chishill near Royston, Herts. It is now at the <a href="http://www.earm.co.uk/">East Anglian Railway Museum</a> in Essex. (Oil on canvas 2011)<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-18723157292203672652013-10-12T11:47:00.002+01:002013-10-12T20:18:22.465+01:00This is my painting of Gresley A4 Pacific No. 60028 <i>Walter K. Whigham</i> at Grantham loco shed in the 1960s. (Oil on canvas 2011)<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-49748413876942087042013-10-11T09:37:00.000+01:002013-10-19T18:43:38.446+01:00Just finished (more or less) this painting of two jewellers at 'Art in Action' at Waterperry House, Oxfordshire. I demonstrated calligraphy there about 30 years ago!<br />
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<br />Gerald Fleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899763100528153893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430779540514625279.post-2970309661359299902013-10-10T10:31:00.000+01:002013-10-10T10:31:54.567+01:00Another visit to the Bluebell Railway yesterday. Very quiet, only one train running but it all made for an authentic country branch line atmosphere.<br />
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Here's another painting of mine - GWR 2-8-0 No. 3800 one of 83 locomotives of the 2884 class designed for heavy freight work by CB Collett in 1938.<br />
She is at Newport (Ebbw Junction) depot on a visit I made there in 1962<br />
(Oil on canvas, 2012).<br />
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