
JUST GO FOR IT!!!
I meant to post this before now … but you know how life is… ‘way leads on to way’ and one does not come back to this place, as one had intended…Another poem you ask? Yes - it just came to me - 'The Road Less Travelled’ by Robert Frost. I shall add it to the end of...
Glitch in the website
This is a quick follow-up blog post because I have discovered that several people have had difficulty with the website - which means they have lost out on the Christmassy paintings I was offering in my last email .... the hens have gone and the other sheep are going...
Riddles and quandaries
Riddles and quandaries Every so often I have spoken of the riddles and quandaries that I experience with painting - mostly how I find my way when stuck !! I am finding the same conundrum occurs with learning the piano .. and to solve them I need to apply some of the...
It seems a long time …
...since I last wrote something here Which is a pity because I enjoy it …. The photo below is the painting I have been working on today … I like it though I can see as I type that I need to do something about the shape of the hill! It seems the first time in a long...
The Rosegarden of Light Project
DAW 2016
Path to the Studio
Path to the studio This is the actual path from the kitchen door to the studio - and you can see why sometimes I dont make it that far - dead heading gets me if the watering doesn't! and now there are cosmos to pick ...... and an abundance of sweet peas and...
SUMMER SCREEN…. the first of three!
SUMMER SCREEN.... the first of three! Summer Screen 1.50 x (50 x 3) This is the first of the three two sided screens I have completed. Ready for my solo show- Landscape & Identity at DORSET COUNTY MUSEUM this Novemeber/December. This...
Summer SCREEN…. the other side of the first of three!
Summer SCREEN.... the other side of the first of three! these are Prayer Flags from Nepal.... attached romantically to our shepherd's hut
NEW WORK – AFTER ART WEEK!
Getting going after the upheaval of Art Weeks is great. Its like coming home after - not a holiday, unless its a really hard working one! I can meet myself and my paints and brushes in my special place - my studio which is restored to itself, like me! Lots of...
STEPHEN FRIEDMAN of the FRIEDMAN GALLERY GIVES ADVICE- " I think the maps are beautiful….."
"I do really like the direction of the new work and I think the maps are beautiful. For me, aesthetically, I Mupe Bay, Lulworth, Dorset oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm unfinished prefer the abstracted ones where you let loose a little on colour and composition........ ...
Painting now!
Detail Dorset coast 103 x183cm