Last week I started a painting that I knew was going to be quirky when I finished it…but its turned out even better than I expected… Its dramatic, and quirky, and has power in it. It is the sort of painting that other people will see things in it that I haven’t planned…but I love […]
Following on from the watercolour painting I did a couple of weeks ago of the Staffordshire trees and bridge over a stream, it reminded me of ANOTHER bridge, stream and trees that I have always wanted to paint since I first saw it five years ago… Except in this case it wasn’t actually a bridge……………………… […]
Its been a couple of weeks since I got back from my holiday in France and I’ve caught up on house and garden jobs, which means I can get back into focusing on art. And being an artist… Sometimes I have commissions to work on, and sometimes I have ideas for artwork I want to […]
On return from my holiday in France I had a wonderful email that put a big smile on my face. It was from the guy I did the pencil life drawing of a few weeks ago… who had showed the drawing to his wife and this was his feedback of her reaction…. .”… She thinks […]
I’m just back from a wonderful relaxing holiday in France, and am so enamoured with the colours of the holiday and their impact on me… There’s the pale greeny turquoise of the sea on the cross channel ferry crossing… as the ferry arrives in Dieppe. Theres the bright blue of the sky Theres the white […]
I was contacted a few weeks ago via my website by a man who explained that he and his wife had got to the point in life where they wanted to fulfill some of the things on their ‘bucket list’. And on that list was …’to be drawn naked by an artist’. The wife had […]
Three weeks ago I went into Rochester to look at the art gallery there and the standard of artwork they had for sale on their walls. I’ve always liked that gallery as its an independent one that has been going for 60 years so they obviously know the market and have a good name with […]
The village I live in, Blue Bell Hill, in Kent is having a celebration party for The Queens Platinum Jubilee – 70 years on the throne and a major achievement, and one that is going to be a unique experience on our lifetime too! Its lovely that people can now have wonderful things to look […]
I’ve got to know the name of Andrew Kennedy in the last three years of living in Kent, as our local Kent County Council Councillor, he listens to the local comments certainly in Blue Bell Hill village where I live, and acts and reports back in a very helpful way. He writes a monthly newsletter […]
A few years ago my husband and I were returning from a holiday in the south of France, having driven the length of that delightful country, and on the last day before we were due to catch the ferry at Dieppe back to Newhaven we had a few hours to spare but didn’t want to […]
(This is the article in the Burton Mail that Stuart Haywood had today, to promote naturism, and the exhibition he is holding of my artwork of him in May. ) I became a naturist at 72 and ‘you’re never too old to be naked’ Stuart Haywood says no-one should be ashamed of their body Naturist […]
For ages I have been wanting to do a painting of a lone wolf hunting on a winters night by moonlight and this week I finally got around to it… I also wanted to do it in watercolour, with the basis of pour on paint as the background as it adds more interest to the […]
Since we moved to this house in Kent almost three years ago we have been working hard on many important jobs in the house and garden, but it is only this last 6 months that I have been able to think more about the new plants I wanted to go in it. Some of them […]
Since I moved to Kent (almost 3 years ago!) I knew I wanted to do more artwork of this beautiful picturesque county. So last week when I had a spare day I thought I’d make the most of it and do another pen and ink drawing of one of the most picturesque places… one that […]
This week I had an email from someone whose name I didn’t recognise who explained that a few years ago I did a pencil sketch of his sisters house in Repton for him as a gift and he saw the drawing recently in her house and he is soon moving to a new house in […]
