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This week…

Half term has been a welcome break in the normal in and out of running classes and has afforded me a block of time to paint. It’s been a while – on day one I had zero concentration for it and had to really plug away but it always falls into place if I keep at […]

Salts Mill, West Yorkshire

We made a family visit this weekend and while ‘Up North’ made a trip out to Salts Mill. The mill is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saltaire and as such exhibits lots of Hockney. These beautiful paintings were part of the history of the Mill in the People and Process exhibition. These are some of Hockney’s iPad drawings which make […]

Coach House Gallery, Winterbourne Botanical Gardens

This week I hung an exhibition of my work at the Coach House Gallery which is at Winterbourne Botanical Gardens, Birmingham. Winterbourne is part of the Birmingham University campus. It’s an Edwardian Arts and Crafts house built for the family of John Nettlefold in 1903. It’s last owner bequeathed it to the University where it became the Botanical […]

Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur

 I’m so very ready for Spring now and there’s nothing like painting from holiday photos to banish the grey, wet days away. This one is from the south of France last year and is inspired by the Fauvists use of hot and cold, bright, bright colours.

Poppy fabric

I got the biggest surprise for Christmas when I opened a big box and found this, my own design, printed up on gorgeous heavy weight linen. My HB had made up a pretty believable story in order to get hold of the files to this design and I didn’t suspect for a moment that he was […]

Happy New Year all. End of week 1 of a shiny new year and I’ve kept my new year resolution to paint something everyday – please click link to see the Flipagram. Fingers crossed for weeks 2, 3, 4 ..!

Happy New 2017

Here’s my Best Nine from the last year on Instagram. It’s an interesting exercise in what appeals to ‘likers’ – painting, pattern, food, family, flowers, travel and knitting. It says it all. Here’s to another precious year of the same. Happy New Year to all of you x    

It’s Christmas!

Of course I meant to post here long before now but time just runs away! I stole a few hours today to paint a little something, anything really – I can get right mardy if I don’t create something and I had given most of this week over to wielding a mop and bucket so […]

Painting days

Since coming back from France in the Summer I have had about 200 photos of inspirational places and scenes pinned to my studio board. And over these past few weeks I have been wooed to paint again having spent a lot of time more recently concentrating on printing and textile work (just because I wanted to !) I […]