NEW PAINTING

Finally finished my Spanish Sunset panel!!

This panel has gone from being landscape to portrait. from very very red to much more blue.

I have never spent so much time battling to try and emulate a photograph, but its finally finished

HOOORAHHH.

great sense of personal achievement, and now I can crack on with something new!

That Friday Feeling

Today brought with it a phone call from my framer (hooray!!)

Two paintings now lovingly framed

and one in particular I am very excited about!

For today was the great unveiling of the first piece I have had framed behind glass.

and it looks wonderful

very sleek

very professional

and oh so beautiful.

old friends

pleasant visit to my lovely local framer today, collected quotes to get everything framed for the exhibition, now thinking of requesting the first space for the beginning of august so that the paintings can then be taken directly to Just So festival!
All very exciting :)
back to painting tomorrow!

BUSINESS CARDS

The new simple streamlined cards have arrived!! (2 weeks early!)

nothing fancy but sharp and to the point.

now to start handing them out to the world!

JUST SO

possibility of displaying work at the fabulous Just So Festival this summer!! very excited to be partnering up with such a great event. Check out their website to see what other magical things are happening

www.justsofestival.org.uk

exciting news

for any of you that have followed my work over the past 12 months you will know that I have been dreaming of holding an exhibition before the summer is out for long time
and HOORAH this dream might actually become a reality very very soon.
My huge studio clearout yesterday allowed me to discover no less than FIFTEEN pieces to send to my framers, and I have another set of inspiring photos from the welsh coast that I intend to use for my current work. This will hopefully leave me with a collection of around 20 framed paintings ready to go to lots of loving contemporary homes. 
This means that despite all expectations I may actually have enough to fill my local community centre where they will hang for as long as I can persuade the staff to keep them for!! 
Needless to say I am very excited at the possibility and will post more updates ASAP!!

Gallery

For those of you that have found your way to my blog without viewing my website and have therefore missed the delights of my online gallery, here is a sneaky peak at what was added yesterday!

each piece stands at around 77cm x 25cm unframed. Mixed media paintings on card, using experimental techniques with ink, glue & paint. (and anything I find in the studio)

These pieces are actually the foundations of the past two years work, and have provided much inspiration for my future projects. They work great as stand alone pieces and in a variety of combination sets. As these are on card instead of MDF I expect to frame them behind perspex or glass to provide some form of protection. They are going to look so great when they finally get to hang!

The thing that amazes me about these early paintings is the energy in them, my newer work feels much more grown up and almost restrained in comparison, but having found these again I'd like to recapture some of the incredible textures and layered media to see what will happen!

making new from the old

 44cm x 11cm. mixed media textiles, experimenting with machine embroidery, quilting, dyed cotton and synthetic gauzes.

A set of textiles pieces I have pulled out of the woodwork to add to my pile of things to send to the framers. Cant decide whether I want to have them framed individually or mounted as one piece.
Any ideas? What would you want hanging on your wall?


[remind me to crack the iron out on these later too!]

clean studio

NEW BLOG

My dear old blog had many a technical fault and so I have established this new shiny one as much easier way to follow progress over summer.

Here will be regular updates, photos from the studio, inspiration, exhibition dates, and the sneak preview at my first official business cards!