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
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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 ……
Art in May
Although I have been busy with my Artist’s retreat this month I have been painting. After finishing a large painting with what seemed like hundreds of windows and balconies and doors and a cute little yellow car I have had fun with lots of small square paintings. I have tried to be a bit more… Continue reading Art in May
february………….
Have decided that as I think February is the most miserable of months to make some plans to compensate. Have ordered 27 new canvas boards – 7 of which are square (40x40cms) and challenge myself to use them all this month. I don’t know what I will do with them but something fun- not commissions.… Continue reading february………….
just working away….and learning…..and stuff
This last period has been a bit of a learning curve for me. I started by painting some scenes from venice because I love the colours and I wanted to paint a bit more loosely and not feel I had to put in every detail. Its not very easy at all to do that and… Continue reading just working away….and learning…..and stuff
Progress and procrastination
Summer has finally arrived. It is so lovely to be warm again without wearing layers of clothes and a hat. You would think that I lived in the artic- but that is just my studio! Now however it is about 24C . Which leads on nicely to my new project/artist’s retreat which will be getting… Continue reading Progress and procrastination
