by admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Journal Archives, Paintings
I’m increasingly pleased that my sketchbooks and journals are proving so productive, I’m in the ‘flow’ and lots of ideas and compositions are coming through. Here’s a selection of the ‘notes for paintings’. I plan to do them...
by admin | Dec 4, 2016 | Paintings
This mixed media painting of Callanish represents all that I feel about Midwinter. When I stop, really stop, the exhaustion I have been trying to out-run catches up with me. It’s so hard to allow myself to feel it, to slow right down and cease from...
by admin | Nov 20, 2016 | Paintings
I have been waiting patiently for the title of this painting and it has come – Hiraeth. It is a welsh word that cannot be easily translated into English. It describes the yearning for home, maybe an outer or inner place of the heart. In the midst of all...
by admin | Aug 29, 2016 | Paintings
Reflection. I never know what is going to be the end result of my intuitive painting and the title arrives (or not!) This may be about physical light and reflection for some, but for me it’s more about inner reflection. Doesn’t matter, see what you will....
by admin | Aug 4, 2016 | Paintings
Today I celebrate Lughnasadh, celtic festival day of harvest – certainly lots coming in from the garden and allotment, tomatoes, cucumber, green beans, beetroot, summer veg of all stripes plus raspberries (never enough of them). OK, the day was on the 1st so its...
by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Paintings
I enjoyed playing in photoshop with my watercolour painting ‘Midsummers Eve, Stonehenge’. There is something calming about the atmosphere and energy of the image which captures the essence and spirit of the place. Artistic licence! A bit of fantasy, a...
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