Due to no banging and assorted noises from upstairs this year have completed an impressive amount of work including some oil paintings ( a trial- and result of being stuck inside because of snow). As usual I think I could have done more and wonder why I don’t do more sketching in the evenings or… Continue reading 2017- NEW WORK (in Pisticci)
my life- more colourful and unusual
This last 2 weeks I have been working on some rather different surfaces. It’s been more for fun than money , but I was needing a bit of a boost and putting some colour in my house has helped. After a lovely long weekend with friends, staying near Lecce (in Puglia) in a lovely appartment… Continue reading my life- more colourful and unusual
Lots of work………………
Am sitting on the doorstep in my little arbour which I have created to give myself a pretty place with some privacy to sit and relax or read or just enjoy and think in. Apart from there not being so much sun this evening it is fairly idyllic. I finished another portrait today. Quite a… Continue reading Lots of work………………
Picking up speed……(back to work)
At last the scaffolding is gone and the building work seems to have more or less finished and my studio feels like my creative space again. I didn’t know how important it was until it was temporarily taken away. Now having re-organised it and gradually relaxing after having felt in a state of siege I… Continue reading Picking up speed……(back to work)
2016 . slow start ……
Has been a slow start to the year due to building work going on upstairs and a complete lack of soundproofing. It has been impossible to work some days and others its just possible to tune out banging and clattering from upstairs, but working has been a nightmare and my studio , which has always… Continue reading 2016 . slow start ……
16 days of magic in Pisticci
I am so going to miss painting my wall. ………. I have had the best time over the last 16 days painting a street scene outside on a wall – about 25m long, in rione croci , in Pisticci. The weather has been amazing . I have got a tan- in november! It has been… Continue reading 16 days of magic in Pisticci
Looking for Artists- or Writers – or Musicians- or film makers
My “artist’s retreat ” has been booked all summer and the last people left on saturday. Next year i would like to increase the proportion of creative people staying there as now i am confident that the house is good, the atmosphere is conducive to creativity and I was right, Pisticci is special. I have… Continue reading Looking for Artists- or Writers – or Musicians- or film makers
