I knew when I finished the other quirky fire and water mystical creatures painting the other month that I would want to paint another…so now that I have finished commissions for the moment I got on and painted this one….I love the fact that other people will see things in it that I haven’t planned…. […]
Its the blogs birthday today… 16 years I’ve been writing a blog… I still enjoy writing it, and its always lovely when people tell me that they read it, it makes it all worthwhile. Happy Birthday Blog!
I found a gold frame that I’ve always liked and decided that I would paint a picture for a one particular place in my lounge that it would fit perfectly.. the frame had a blue mount and glass, so all I had to do was think of the right picture for it. The space was […]
I’m really enjoying doing some paintings for me at the moment, as I know how much I’ve improved in my art in the last few years I wanted to paint things that bring me pleasure (knowing that I could sell prints of them if need be but having the original to look at on a […]
The client who commissioned me to paint the picture of ‘Wooster’ came to see it in real life yesterday. He had viewed it online but hadn’t had the chance to see it in real life until yesterday, and loves it as much as I did painting it for him. He said that a photograph of […]
I was asked a few weeks ago to do a painting of a dog for a client. He sent me various photos of the dog and we discussed the best one for me to do the painting from, and finalised it down to two, the photo of the dog sitting down but change the setting […]
I’ve got a lovely new commission to do this week…. Totally different to the one I finished last week.. Its in acrylics on board…. And is of a dog… And acrylics is the perfect medium to paint the dog in.. getting all those fine hairs of light over dark, dark over light that makes up […]
This week I sold a watercolour of mine… called ‘Refreshing greens’ …it was a painting I painted last year and loved the peaceful and calm aspect of it, with the stream and small foot bridge over it, the ford, and country lane disappearing off into the distance.. showing the best of early spring in English […]
Yesterday a guy came to see me from Northamptonshire, a two hour journey to Kent, and I hadn’t met him before. He brought with him a good friend of mine, Jo, who is a mutual friend of ours. It was nice to meet him face to face, we had spoken on the phone a couple […]
A few weeks ago I realised I wanted a ‘wow painting for my lounge wall, and mentioned it to my husband, since the choice would affect him as much as me, as we’d both be looking at it! I came up with a few ideas and told him my suggestions, and then decided on one, […]
The acrylic painting I did a few weeks ago ‘Realm of the fire bellied water baboon’ has been collected today… the woman who bought it loves my artwork and I love the conversations we have about art. We both share a love of art and find that our creativity bounces off each other with ideas. […]
This week I have received a wonderfully heartwarming email from someone called Craig….here are the main parts of the email he sent to me…. I would like to start by thanking you for the ‘blogs’ you have on your website, and what a profound affect these snippets of your existence have had on me; and […]
Stuart Haywood mentioned to me a few weeks ago that he wanted to see if the Guardian newspaper would be interested in his experience for their article for changes in life after 60…because he had become a naturist, and that was all down to me! Stuart had never been naked infront of anyone other than […]
Its always with interest and intrigue and hope that we look forward to new years and wonder what they will bring us. But its also a time of year that we are reminded of what the previous year has been…and I was reminded of that big time at the New Years Eve party I went […]
As this year draws to a close (and I love that pun as an artist!) I am absolutely delighted with the many diverse pieces of artwork I’ve done… At the start of the year I painted a simple commission of ‘Blue bird tree’ in acrylics on canvas with gold metallic paint for the background. There […]
