Since I showed the new Happy Gardens paintings online I have received some really uplifting and wonderful feedback.. the high-lights of which I will share with you here…. “My first impression is that they are intriguing and I will need to view them many more times before I can give a definitive opinion of […]
I am always reminded of my “Poppy Appeal” painting at this time of year, and particularly on Remembrance Sunday..
The eighth painting I have done for the Happy Garden theme was based on a photo I took this year but changed considerably to create a more appealing garden to the one in the photo. I love the round pool, and the rounded topiary shapes of the bushes, and the twisted spirals, which gave me […]
I’ve always loved white blossoming trees and wanted to do a painting of pure white blossom over a round enigmatic dark pond. I felt that the picture ought to have a white bench below it and that the sky being a pretty shade of pink would show off the white blossom to dramatically good effect. […]
I adore stone arches, I find them intriguing, particularly when they are in garden walls and have a tempting view beyond. So I wanted the sixth Happy Garden painting to feature an arch in the wall of a courtyard garden but also a shaped raised stone walled pond that would be somewhere that the viewer […]
After loving painting the white agapanthus in the “Echoes of White” painting I really wanted to paint the gorgeous blue ones, remembering them fondly in my Mums garden when she and my Dad moved to sunny Devon. I’ve always loved the bright vibrant cobalt blue of them and wanted them in a pale terracotta pot […]
After painting the white themed painting for the Happy Gardens theme it seemed natural for me to then do another painting based on just one colour, and one type of flower to feature in it. I’ve always loved lavender and at my last house had a stone pathway in the garden that I built myself […]
Since the new theme of Happy Gardens paintings is about tranquillity in the garden I felt the next painting I did should feature just one, calming, colour of white. I think white gardens are very peaceful, and I wanted to emulate that peacefulness in this painting. I had one photo that I’d taken whilst on […]
After I had done the first Happy Gardens painting I wanted to quickly get on with the second one, since I was so upbeat with inspiration and thought about which subject matter was the best to do for it and remembered with great fondness about the dark pink cherry tree by the pond I’d created […]
The first painting I did for the Happy Gardens theme of paintings had to be the epitome of English gardens, and where better to start than in Kent, the “Garden of England”, quite rightly so from what I have seen of it! I’ve had some fabulous holidays in Kent in the last few years and […]
Since I’ve been working on the new themed paintings this year, I have been focused on the concept behind them, and know that its a theme that will be popular with a lot of people. The subject matter was one that I felt was right for all sorts of people, both those who lived in […]
