So many thanks to all of you who shared in my celebrations last week and left a lovely comment. I am lucky to have you all cheering me on and you are valued indeed.
It wasn’t hard to find inspiration for a new painting. The garden is surprising me weekly with the flowers that are growing (the previous owners were good at gardening) and the woods opposite are just full of cherry and may blossom trees. So when I saw this front cover photograph, I knew I’d found my jumping off point.
You would laugh if you knew just how many photographs of blossom I’d taken (the light was just right…they looked beautiful…the colours were delicious…)
Or how long I’ve taken to edit them down for this post.
The quince blossom is my favourite as this shade of not quite peach, not quite terracotta, not quite red is so unusual.
I was on a high from Wednesday’s little trip and really inspired by these beautiful flowers (am I the only one who gets a sort of heart burst when you feel so inspired by something, you’ve just got to create from it that minute?) It wasn’t until much later that I realised that I’d included this little sculpture of the girl with her hands high in exuberance. How appropriate!
