Painting and Drawing Flowers @ macbirmingham
9 December 2021Term has just wrapped up on my Painting and Drawing Flowers course at mac birmingham. Over 12 weeks I’ve guided the students through some foundational exercises on tone, understanding and mixing colours, using watercolours, acrylics, pastels, inks and much more. We have played with salt and masking fluid to create floral effects. And also mixed […]
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Time machine – Shropshire in Oct
8 December 2021As I use my blog as a diary and also as a reminder, I’m taking the liberty of playing with chronology! We took this break in Shropshire 2 months ago back in October but I never managed to write this in a timely fashion. And I wanted to remember many of the good things about […]
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3/3. 100dayproject
20 September 2021Made it! Wow, that was a marathon adventure and like all good runners, towards then end I had to slow down rather than just stop and call it quits. But like all things, its when you’re stretched and challenged that growth occurs. The daily (or technically I should say sustained) practice of showing up to […]
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2/3 100 day project
31 August 2021I have been falling and leaping my way through this #100dayproject of Painting Something From My Garden Everday. It’s not quite been everyday in a daily sense – more like nothing some days and three things another. But for the most part it’s become a regular practice and I’ve kept up…just. Some days I accepted […]
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1/3 of 100 days
14 July 2021I am a third of the way through my #100daysproject of painting 100 things growing in my garden. Any sustained effort on a project has highs and lows; I have had days of lag and disinterest, days where time is just too short and I fall behind and days of joy and peace found painting […]
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100 days
14 June 2021On June 1st I decided I’d commit to doing a 100days project. There were a few reasons for this: For Christmas I got given a seed advent calendar which has been a lot of fun but also a lot of work – 25 different kinds of annuals to grow has kept me on my toes […]
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Back to work.
11 June 2021Last Monday was a momentous return to work after 15 months of being either on furlough or waiting to be employed again. It was so lovely to be back and worth recording here.
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Spring flowers
19 May 2021It’s been a little while since I’ve painted some small pieces and I generally always feel inspired when Spring brings us such lovely flowers to work with. This Auricula was a lucky garden center find – they have been scarce for a few years; apparently growing conditions have not been good. And this one is […]
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Hannah Ryggen
29 January 2021I’m sure I’m not alone in admitting that I am really missing trips out to see art. The constraints of this Pandemic have truly served to reveal what’s important to me in my everyday existence and also what I would consider to be a treat – there’s nothing like having something made inaccessible to make […]
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