Website polish
21 November 2017Did you notice I’d spruced up the website? New, fresh work samples in the portfolios, updated text and more representational photos of me…i.e. older looking! As any sole trader will tell you, there’s a gazzillion things one could do with every hour of working time and for me the thing that slips is the website […]
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Tablecloth
13 November 2017I have a ta-dah for you today – a tablecloth I hand-printed recently. One reason I like to keep blogging is to record such things – when I looked back to see when I started my Fish project, I was surprised to see the date on the upload was May 2017. It takes a long time […]
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Protea
30 October 2017A little painting inspired by the beautiful South African Protea via my local Marks and Spencers!
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Women’s work – South African Contemporary art
22 September 2017I wanted to share a little of this awesome exhibition we saw at the South African National Gallery. It successfully aimed to raise questions about what is ‘fine art’ and what is ‘craft’ and is there a difference and also what roles gender play in how we think about these. The C18th brought about the […]
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Lionel Davis
6 September 2017When we stayed in Cape Town, South Africa we visited the The South African National Gallery where we discovered the exciting work of Lionel Davis. Lionel is a self-taught artist having discovered his artistic creativity at the age of 41 through contact with a local community arts programme. I think this exhibition was a retrospective of […]
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Summer hiatus
1 September 2017Two months since I last blogged…can’t believe how time flies. I’m determined to keep a record of my days here so lets fill that gap. We went to South Africa  – a country with the most magnificent coastline, the biggest skies, abundant nature (even in their wintertime) whales to watch courting and beautiful national parks […]
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Workshop at Winterbourne
3 July 2017Yesterday we had such luck with the weather shining down on the Mixed Media Collage Canvas workshop at Winterbourne House and Gardens. The Old Tool Shed where the workshop was held, is always a vintage cutie in whatever weather but the gardens looked magnificent in the blazing sunshine. We were able to go around the grounds […]
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Hungarian National Gallery
7 June 2017This was one of my favorite places that we visited in Budapest – the Hungarian National Gallery It’s up in the Castle district and you can  pay to ride up in this cute Funicular. It was very quiet and cool (in a not hot way!) and has a broad range of beautiful art from way back […]
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Budapest
1 June 2017We are just back from the beautiful Budapest. Â I always do a lot of internet research before I go any where and so I thought I’d return the favour and leave some recommendations here in amongst all the photos. Firstly it’s Buda’pesh (not pest)! and if you want the view you have to walk up […]
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