Although I have been busy with lots of art this year, looking back, these are the highlights …. The year started well with me completing the “Going for gold” acrylic painting of three horses racing the wind. Although it didn’t get to the venue I had planned for it, it did go on […]
I always find Christmas a slightly difficult time of year. Like a lot of other people do I suppose. We all want that happy and shiny and wonderful Christmas that the telly adverts and films promote with such a pull on our emotions. But I know very few people who actually achieve that blissful state. Most Christmas’s seem to be […]
The text message pinged in last Tuesday from a friend of mine saying “Hiya, we have found some oil paints and paraphernalia which was (man’s name) and wondered if you would like to see…” I replied “Aww thanks for thinking of me, yes I’d love to see whatever it is you’ve found!! xx ” “Ok, will bring […]
As an artist I love to paint various subjects and one of them is the spiritual connecting of energies that I can’t say exactly what they are, only that I feel that sometimes the universe clicks into place to make things happen in certain directions. Maybe its just a whole batch of happy coincidences, maybe […]
As an artist I am motivated by colour, by beauty in line and light, by captivating an image I see infront of me. I can’t change doing that, its how my brain works, its how I have honed my skills and talents and interests. Last week whilst finally out in the big wide world after the enforced […]
Normally when I paint a picture its of one thing like a person, or a landscape, I will work from real life or photos, or sometimes both. I put my own artistic input into it, with my creativity and make the painting more exciting than the image I am taking it from. Occasionally, I have been asked […]
With not being able to work properly for the last fortnight due to my sprained foot, I haven’t been able to do all the things I had planned on doing in that time. All I could do was watch from the sidelines and answer a few emails. So on Sunday whilst checking the Artgallery.co.uk that I […]
