Marc Provins

I really like the pop art nature of this scene, brightly coloured consumer goods lined up on shelves. It's the characters that have fallen over that make it for me, breaking the symmetry and looking bedraggled. The fridge lights create a little studio so everyone is nicely illuminated. Ironically I'm writing this from the shade of my workroom having over indulged in all the amazing weather and given myself heat stroke. Stay cool out there.

My blog reached 30,000 visits this week so I'm celebrating with this beautiful tarmac canvas ice cream painting. Could this be the real start of spring/ summer after a few false starts? I did foolishly take a similar, slightly less dramatic scene to mean the same thing a while back: marcprovins.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/sprung.html

I think spring has sprung at last. A short walk with my camera after work, so windy but great strong light. I ended up on King's Road again, see my last entry if you missed it: marcprovins.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-strange-ordinariness-of-kings-road.html I must admit I was struggling a bit until I came across this pair right next to each other, very spring or Easter like colours and I like the contrast of the totally manmade plastic on concrete versus nature coming back to life in the form of the yellow forsythia. 

6 January, 2013 In an attempt to squeeze every drop out of the holiday before we are back at work tomorrow we spent the day on the Wirral. It is one of my favourite coastal areas at the moment. We drove to the Wirral Country Park and walked up the beach from Thurstaston to West Kirby and back again. It's amazing that such an unspoilt area with views across the peninsula to Wales is always pretty quiet. Afterwards we hopped back in the car and went to Parkgate for our tea. If you've never been it's definitely worth a visit  as it is a seaside town without any sea. Once an important port and resort, the twentieth century saw the estuary gradually silt up meaning the water no longer comes in. So now in its place are marshes that act as a home to wildlife. Despite this Parkgate still looks and feels 'seasidey' with a famous Art Deco ice cream parlour, chippy, four pubs and a hotel. By the way the picture is of my stylish friend Diane in completely inapp...