Coffee or Tea Anyone?

On the advice and suggestions of certain enthusiastic souls  – and much thanks to them, I have spent the whole morning and early afternoon preparing listings for a new line of collectable ceramic mugs featuring some of my art prints. I have more in the pipeline, but it’s a start! What do you reckon? Have […]

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A Year of Art

I suppose I’ve had a fairly prolific year when it comes to painting. We’re almost at the end of 2019, and despite having six paintings in various stages of completion, I have managed to produce fifteen finished pieces this year. Six watercolours and nine oil paintings, not including the flurry of smaller watercolour sketches I’ve […]

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Flower Painting Series – Pink Asters

I started work on the next ‘Daisy’ painting in my imagined series almost immediately after finishing the previous one entitled, ‘Birthday Flowers’. This time exploring the potential of pink on green. I’ve also been experimenting with achieving different lighting effects within each composition through colour and texture. Using strong complementary colour contrasts such as hot […]

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Sunflowers – Oil on Canvas

I’ve had a headache for the best part of a week and a bit now. Bill, my husband, suggested on Sunday that I do an impromptu painting by way of generating endorphins in the hope that said headache would be knocked on the head, didn’t work all that well, but I did produce another painting. […]

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A Poem.

How can I create if my house is not in order, If the inspiration I choose renders me numb, Stops my lips from forming the words I need to speak, So that I might reap the benefits of that love? Why should I come back, To paths well worn, And scenes remembered with retinal insistence […]

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Ahh… Sane Again!

Today was the first time in about a year that I managed to get out into my garden and do some gardening. I love my garden and couldn’t think of much better to do than sow seeds, look after my plants and take photographs especially as it has been the warmest day of the year […]

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