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Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Monday, 25 April 2016
Sunday Farmers' Market on the Vine Gardens
'Afternoon Bonnie
If you click here you'll see some of the feedback we received. Worked well for us. Thanks Bonnie.
Fortunately for us neither stall 29 nor 30 turned up so we were facing the bridge, which is ideal for avoiding too much direct sunlight on my pics. So please, please, please put us in either pitch 29 or 30 next time. Our stall would give an eye-catching splash of colour to the entrance of the market too, drawing the punters in. (Poppies and chickens are always a big draw!)
We're available May, July and September. So please put us down for those months.
All the best
Grenville
AllenWednesday, 20 April 2016
BBC Gardeners' World Live Show
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From: Grenville Allen <grenvilleallen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: BBC Gardeners' World Live Show
To: Roxanne Jelley <Roxanne.Jelley@riverstreetevents.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: BBC Gardeners' World Live Show
To: Roxanne Jelley <Roxanne.Jelley@riverstreetevents.co.uk>
Ta for your reply, Roxanne. And thanks for your compliment.
When I spoke to your company (admittedly a few years ago) a chap called David said he could get the price down for us to 1200. Think either my wife balked at this figure or some other event clashed with yours. Either way we didn't pursue it.
Now sadly your cost is way beyond the figure of 700 I was hoping to pay. We live a long way away so travelling and B&B costs would all have to be accounted for too.
Anyway, thanks for your time and good luck with your inestimable show.
All the best
Grenville
Allen
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Roxanne Jelley <Roxanne.Jelley@riverstreetevents.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Grenville,Great to hear of your interest in the BBC Gardeners' World Live Show! As discussed please find attached some further information regarding this years' show below and also attached is our media pack.BBC Gardeners' World Live, 16 – 19 June 2016, NEC BirminghamBBC Gardeners' World Live is one of the UK's largest flower shows running for 25 years and attracting a unique audience that you will not find at any other event. The show benefits from being part of the successful Gardeners' World brand family which includes the BBC TV programme, the magazine and of course, the Show! BBC Gardeners' World Live also gains from the BBC Good Food Show Summer sitting alongside it as part of one amazing ticket price. We deliver a mix of gardening celebrities & experts, chefs, more than 30 gardens, over 100 of the most outstanding plant nurseries in the UK within the largest Floral Marquee at any flower Show, along with over 400 fantastic exhibitors.· 90,000 visitors expected in 2016
· 55% of visitors do not attend any other gardening or flower shows
· £198 average spend per visitor
· Average household income of £55,000
Stand RatesShopping Lanes Shell Scheme : £257 per m² + £65 reg fee + VATAlso attached is the full floor plan for your consideration.Stands available which I would recommend as great locations for you to look at are:
Stand S60 – 3m x 2m corner stand with two open sides close to the main isle – £1,542 + £65 reg fee + VAT
Stand S74 – 2m x 2.5m corner stand on the main isle with two open sides - £1,927.50 + £65 reg fee + VAT
Stand S54 – 3m x 2m corner stand with two open sides close to the main isle - £1,927.50 + £65 reg fee + VATI just had a look on your website, I think at the time our internet must have been down and your paintings look wonderful.Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
RoxanneRoxanne JelleySenior Sales Executive@GFS_Sales
T: 0203 405 4285Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Thought this might act as a good testimonial....
From: core fruit products [mailto:jkandj.brown@virgin.
Sent: 17 April 2016 20:45
To: events team
Subject: Fw: English Festival
Importance: High
Sent: 17 April 2016 20:45
To: events team
Subject: Fw: English Festival
Importance: High
His stuff is excellent – well worth it if you can fit him in. Please can you send him a form if you think appropriate.
From: core fruit products
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 5:11 PM
To: Grenville Allen
Cc: events team
Subject: Re: English Festival
Dear Grenville
I thought I originally contacted you about this, as I went through all the likely people who also attend the Hop Festival, anyway – after my initial work it has now been handed back to the events team and Annette who are organising the actual day. I will forward a copy of your email to them and ask them to let you have a form asap.
Best wishes
Wendy
Monday, 29 December 2014
A good start start to 2015: going into a parallel universe
Unfortunately the video seems to have vanished but here's a static encapsulation... Just click on this: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UVA1qvqd--/18k3m8c81d9ubjpg.jpg
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Friday, 21 November 2014
Another tweeter
Click on image to enlarge...
Striding Out
Yet another original. Priced to sell at just £65 ~ inc double mount and frame!
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Grenville and Hazel will be at Blighs Meadow Sevenoaks ~ DEC 20-24, 2014
Festive tweets:
"Both originals; all my own work.
Shall I bag 'em up for you, Madam?"
Now both SOLD!
Shall I bag 'em up for you, Madam?"
Now both SOLD!
NB: we'll be in a green and white striped trailer at Blighs Meadow, Sevenoaks this Thurs, Dec 18.
Just click on the images to enlarge. And here's a nice fat duck for yuletide....
Thursday, 23 October 2014
'Hilltop Poppies' finally there....
Hilltop
Poppies
Image size: 16" x 21"
Hilltop Poppies
Image size: 16" x 21"
Just click on the thumbnail to enlarge. (A2 in size ~ and finally captured.)
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Grenville Allen in the Royal Victoria Place shopping centre, T Wells
There's Grenville bottom left adjusting something under the table surrounded by empty boxes. V workmanlike.
The GRENVILLE ALLEN sign
and the cash'n'wrap corner
'Course Hazel the Mall Moll has done all the setting up in her own inimitable manner. Just click on the pics to enlarge.
And here's a customer paying an interest:Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Grenville's display in a nutshell...
Grenville Allen will be joining us at the October event.
R&B Events, Tunbridge Wells
Monday, 13 January 2014
Grenville & Hazel at Le Marché: another satisfied customer...
A nice reminder of a sunny August Bank Holiday, 2013.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Badger Watch at the Heathfield Show
Mud, sweat and debauchery! Well, mud and sweat, anyway.
Chap up the far corner (with shooting stick) had received a Grenville Allen Off-Roading Can Be Fun hedgehog pic and vowed that if ever he found the artist he'd buy more. Lo and behold: there I am. (I'm the one on the right in the foreground, hands behind my back, listening to his story v intently.)
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Keep it Local Easter 2013
An excellent time was had by one and all despite the snow. All thanks to Anne Marriner's organisational skills.Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Putting on a show....
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| RCA Crafts for Christmas, 2012 |
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| Hazel (on right) making final adjustments |
3 long days up on Detling Hill.
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And then on to a village hall do...A hint of the display Hazel put on there:
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Grenville's latest poppy: what a whopper!
Diva
Yes, it's nearly 24" by 19"! Just like the massive daisy pic, Drama Queen. Designed to make a lovely twosome. And it's now SOLD along with the daisy and sunflower. A veritable triptych!
PR
Hey Tracey
14th October will be Pink Sunday on the Tonbridge Farmers' Market, raising money for Breast Cancer Care. If you're wearing a pink item and you make a purchase the stallholder will then donate 10% of their takings to the charity. Last year a whopping £525 was raised. So come along and make sure you're wearing something pink!
Other dates where you can find Grenville Allen....
October 13Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there from 9 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
October 20-21The Perry Court Farm Annual Apple Fair. Canterbury Road, Bilting, Ashford, Kent TN25 4ES. Grenville Allen will be showing his paintings and limited editions in the cold store. Brrr. Open 10-5 both days. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
October 27Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions at the Cranbrook in Bloom Craft Fair in the Congregational Church on the High Street. We'll be behind our table 10 'til 4. Just click on www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
October 28Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes at the Autumn Fair in Burwash Village Hall, Burwash, TN19 7HA. 12 'til 4. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 10Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there from 9 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 11Tonbridge Farmers' Market. Sovereign Way Long Stay Car Park TN9 1RG. Grenville Allen and his wife Hazel will be there exhibiting in their usual spot from 9.30 'til 1.30. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 17The Newenden Christmas Fair. Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes at Newenden Village Hall and Church. On from 10.30-3.30 in the smallest village in Kent. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 24Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes on the Canterbury Artisan market, St George's Street. 9 'til 5. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 1Homewood School Christmas Craft Fair, Tenterden. Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes in the sports hall from 10 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 8Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there from 9 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 9Tonbridge Farmers' Market. Sovereign Way Long Stay Car Park TN9 1RG. Grenville Allen and his wife Hazel will be there exhibiting in their usual spot from 9.30 'til 1.30. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 15Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes on the Canterbury Artisan market, St George's Street. 9 'til 5. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 22: Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there 9 'til 3. Last chance to buy a Grenville Allen pic for Christmas! Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
Are you still awake?
Hazel sends her love and will be in touch soon.
Cheers
Grenville Allen
f i n e a r t i s t
www.grenvilleallen.com
Here's my life story...well, you did ask! Just pick whatever you want to feature. It's damn decent of you to go to so much trouble on our behalf. Hazel is not surprised as she knows of old what a good egg you are.
Free Range
Find Grenville on the Tonbridge Farmers' Market every second Sunday of the month. This veritable extravaganza all takes place in the Sovereign Way long stay car park from 9.30 to 1.30. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.14th October will be Pink Sunday on the Tonbridge Farmers' Market, raising money for Breast Cancer Care. If you're wearing a pink item and you make a purchase the stallholder will then donate 10% of their takings to the charity. Last year a whopping £525 was raised. So come along and make sure you're wearing something pink!
Other dates where you can find Grenville Allen....
October 13Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there from 9 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
October 20-21The Perry Court Farm Annual Apple Fair. Canterbury Road, Bilting, Ashford, Kent TN25 4ES. Grenville Allen will be showing his paintings and limited editions in the cold store. Brrr. Open 10-5 both days. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
October 27Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions at the Cranbrook in Bloom Craft Fair in the Congregational Church on the High Street. We'll be behind our table 10 'til 4. Just click on www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
October 28Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes at the Autumn Fair in Burwash Village Hall, Burwash, TN19 7HA. 12 'til 4. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 10Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there from 9 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 11Tonbridge Farmers' Market. Sovereign Way Long Stay Car Park TN9 1RG. Grenville Allen and his wife Hazel will be there exhibiting in their usual spot from 9.30 'til 1.30. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 17The Newenden Christmas Fair. Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes at Newenden Village Hall and Church. On from 10.30-3.30 in the smallest village in Kent. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
November 24Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes on the Canterbury Artisan market, St George's Street. 9 'til 5. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 1Homewood School Christmas Craft Fair, Tenterden. Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes in the sports hall from 10 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 8Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there from 9 'til 2. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 9Tonbridge Farmers' Market. Sovereign Way Long Stay Car Park TN9 1RG. Grenville Allen and his wife Hazel will be there exhibiting in their usual spot from 9.30 'til 1.30. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 15Grenville Allen will be exhibiting his paintings and limited editions of poppies, cats, ducks, chickens, landscapes and seascapes on the Canterbury Artisan market, St George's Street. 9 'til 5. Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
December 22: Grenville and his wife Hazel can be found exhibiting Grenville's paintings and limited editions on the Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Market outside the Town Hall on Civic Way. They'll be there 9 'til 3. Last chance to buy a Grenville Allen pic for Christmas! Visit www.grenvilleallen.com to see more of his work.
Are you still awake?
Hazel sends her love and will be in touch soon.
Cheers
Grenville Allen
f i n e a r t i s t
www.grenvilleallen.com
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Grenville subtitles hedgehog pic
Look at these little rogues. Now subtitled!
Just click on image above to enlarge.
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Monday, 9 July 2012
Grenville on the Tonbridge Farmers' Market
Selling one's wares. Just click on the above thumbnail to see Grenville in action....
Monday, 5 September 2011
What I've been sweating over during these last few weeks....
Steps as seen from backyard...
My trusty spade
View of new steps from above....
Digging away with my trusty spade....
1 thing leads 2 another....
The view painstakingly gained at the summit of Mount Grenville.
Herewith views of Varrier's Wood for winter fuel, the upper Celandine Walk leading under the rose arch to the steps up to the Top Terrace.
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Fwd: How's sunny Marbella? Settled in yet?
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From: Grenville Allen
Date: Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Subject: How's sunny Marbella? Settled in yet?
To: Glyn Wakefield
Subject: How's sunny Marbella? Settled in yet?
To: Glyn Wakefield
Anyway, are you pair settled in yet? Made any new friends?
Are ya brown as berries?
Friday, 4 February 2011
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on Andy Gray and Richard Keys: the changing face of office banter 4 days ago
This was the London advertising scene in the eighties. I've written about it in my unpublished novel 'Albert's Little Vice'. From what I've heard those days are long gone. Currently everyone it seems is just grateful to keep a job, any job, in the ad world.
on Andy Gray and Richard Keys: the changing face of office banter 4 days ago
"Office banter" often leads to "office goosing" through to "office groping" onto full-scale "office orgies" aka "office Christmas parties". All well and good between consenting individuals but not so good when one of said individuals has bad breath, flaky skin or is just downright plug-ugly. From my humble experience. But then — beneath the veneer — we are all simply creatures roaming about on a harsh unforgiving planet.
During the eighties, my wife would come home from her office duties, many a time complaining about the sly sneaky groping and goosing she'd received. My hackles would go up at this and I'd offer to give the groper "a good hiding" only to be told not to intervene. According to her, it would only make matters worse.
An office associate of mine told of similar woes and one night sat in wait in his car for the offending person to leave the office. Revving the engine wildly and mounting the pavement, headlights full beam, he drove straight at the groper. Think he broke the groper's ankles but even if he didn't he'd have at least given him something to think about. I dunno. The trials and tribulations of office life: a bit of banter to broken ankles.
on Why don't we truly value poetry? last week
[Beginning of my epic poem. To be read in a long slow sorrowful manner with many excited blips and pregnant pauses and rising in a powerful crescendo....]
Calmly reposing on a saphire pebble
I survey the meadow
Yawning before me
Bathed in life.
Out on the fresh grass they they lie
The two earthworms I have searched for
All my life.
I am ready to meet their copulatory functions with extreme zeal.
Steadily I crouch down
And put my face next to their cold, soiled bodies.
And feel myself tugged
Gently at first
But afterwards more and more violently
Down and down
Into the slick ageless worm's mystical hollow.
All I can see is the pink shadowy insides of my eyelids.
All I can feel is the moist soft loam
And the tubulous roots of the trees against my body.
I am blinded.
A helpless victim to the amorous advances of an earthworm,
Dragged along labrynthian corridors
To be pitilessly
Raped and tortured
Is love so sweet!
Once inside the belly of the earth
I am immediately arrested
By an ever-mounting number of worms
Who wriggle triumphantly
In and out of my anal passage
Up my nasal cavities,
Preparing my body for a peculiar sacrifice.
My brain is liquid
My tongue crawls away to safety
Back to the surface of the globe
And sunlight.
I am masturbated from within
And celestial heaven cannot be far away now
As the worms turn and everything is black
Immovable
Monumental.
"Help me dear God," I cry. "This delirious pleasure is but an aberration.
Give me something solid!"
Grenville Allen 1977
(The above work is juvenilia par excellence. I spent many a happy hour reciting this during my student years!)
on Why don't we truly value poetry? last week
See above....
on Why don't we truly value poetry? last week
Stanza from my epic poem....
And in that wood the eyes no longer see
But only feel the blind, poking darkness
Of the wood's searching, groping, anxious need to clasp me
To its damp and heaving breast
Where now it holds me like its rooted trees
Grenville Allen 1977
on Why don't we truly value poetry? last week
The constant wit can be cloying
The constant fool annoying
I prefer the dead, the silent
The one who keeps away from me
Now and always
Constantly.
Grenville Allen 1977
on The art exhibition where the pieces really do grow on you last week
Here's something I prepared earlier: http://www.craftsforum.co.uk/a...
Talk about suffering for one's art. I think I'll call this piece "Bubble 'n' Squeal".
on Wikipedia at 10: 'It's what the web is for' 2 weeks ago
'Course there are ways round the vanity/self-promotion issue. Me old mucker Beattie is a master at this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W....
I was simply out to increase my SEO and tried using Wikipedia as one element of this. But this was before I'd discovered there's as much subterfuge involved as in my old advertising days. Here btw is my own FREE offer that no-one was in the slightest bit interested in: http://www.wmhleisure.com/foru...
Which just goes to show you.
on Wikipedia at 10: 'It's what the web is for' 2 weeks ago
I've corrected many a celeb's biographical details, using the 'sandbox' etc. For instance, Tommy Boyd, the radio presenter, listed as studying at Brighton University. Wrong. He went to my university: Sussex. (His political persuasion is diametrically opposed to mine though.)
Now, what gets me about this supposedly democratic encyclopedia is that when I entered my own enthralling life details: acting in my early teens on the RSC stage alongside Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and her brother Jeff, Ian Richardson, Brenda Bruce, Liz Spriggs — to name but a few illustrious fellow luvvies — short story on BBC Radio at eleven yrs of age, violinist with the Warwickshire Youth Orchestra, a spell in the advertising world in the eighties as an award-winning copywriter with the likes of Trevor Beattie in my twenties, and now here doing my utmost as a painter. No joy. All the above scrubbed out by some interfering nomark geek. The only reason he could give for my rejection: vanity. Tch!
on Tesco sales miss estimates as out-of-town stores hit by snow 3 weeks ago
For Tesco, history began when Jack Cohen returned from the First World War and invested £30 on a surplus food stall in London's East End. Cohen consolidated his initial small-scale success by joining forces with T.E. Stockwell, and the name Tesco was born. The first shop with "Tesco" emblazoned above the window was opened in 1929.
But even Tesco's so-called 'Finest' range is barely edible. Which is why we shop at Waitrose. And always have done.