Blossom

Finally managed to finish a piece of art this year. That’s what happens when your life gets taken over by theatre and you’re running between things so much you don’t give yourself time for anything else – sound like a very passive recipient of this put like that. There are a pile of emotions mixed up with all three major productions that I’ve been involved with this year: Pack of Lies at Wick Theatre in March, Connections at Brighton Little Theatre in April, and Bitesize Breakfast Show all through Brighton Fringe: every weekend in May. Yes I embraced it all and said yes to it all and I wouldn’t change a thing as I learned so much – however, I would make different choices if I had to do it all over again. Life can only be lived forwards and understood backwards after all.

Back to art. It’s not the world’s best, but I like it.

Pen Art

It was our Wedding Anniversary – I like to make some kind of art as a present, so I made this on paper with ink pens. I really like it – speaks to my sense of humour!

Time For Art

Here’s my latest experiment. I wasn’t pleased with it until I put it down and looked at it from afar, then I thought it might be ok.

And sometimes it’s the fact that you’ve actually put pens / brushes on paper to create something, and the very act of doing that makes you happy!

Standing Strong

I eventually finished my latest arcylic on canvas paper painting. It’s amazing how long something takes when you only work on it 2 hours every other week for a couple of months.

Multi-coloured Reindeer

Just painted this, for my sister-cousin’s birthday, who I hope doesn’t read it before she gets this through the post… of course I’m late with it, with best intentions, but at least I sought out an inspiration photo and painted this entirely with her in mind. I hope she likes it, I definitely do!

Latest Painting

Yes it’s a sunset painting in the Autumn when the birds, in this case geese, fly South, and I know it’s June BUT – nope, don’t really have an explanation. This was inspired by a photo from a friend of mine taken in Sweden.

Sometimes painting a scene from Sweden is a little heart moment for me.

Title: “Across the Autumn Sky”. First time I’ve taken two titles from the same song, but the paintings are related and both were inspired by photos taken by the same person.

Misty Paintings

Inspired by misty photographs, trying out different things to get the different effects… two latest paintings. My theme of song lyrics is more obvious in the one I finished today. If you recognise the song, let me know!

“Mist the Hazy View” – acrylic on canvas (March 2019)
“Mists” – acrylic on art paper (February 2019)