Saturday, 23 December 2023

Keep Looking

I've put our sixty eight piece Nativity scene out again, as I try to do, every Christmas. However, some of the figures are  now also permanently displayed in my garden gallery as they appear in the painting from 2019  'The Wasp and the Ring'   Can you spot them?

  Both the models and the painting appear on my latest Instagram and Facebook posts.

Happy Christmas!

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Measuring Up

 I've just been sent a list by the Norris Museum, of possible paintings they might use in my exhibition next year. My task is to send them  dimensions, so they can begin to see how many can be fitted in the gallery.

One of the paintings the Curator hopes to include is 'Snow Angels and No Angels'. This comprises of fifteen small paintings, celebrating some important female members of my family. Although they should be seen in a horizontal line I have never been able to manage that as our small cottage.

They seem dotted about, but in fact  follow a path around our house which mirrors the journey I made in 2008 discovering the Eleanor Crosses from Harby to London. 

The first 'Snow Angel' is our second daughter Fay, who was stillborn. You can see this canvas on my latest Instagram and Facebook posts and all fifteen on the PRINTS FOR SALE page on my website.

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

A Nice Present

 Last week I did the final tour of my pop-up gallery foe this season. Usually, I reopen again in April but things will be different because of my exhibition at the Norris Museum. So my next tour could be September 2024! 

I had a lovely couple for this booking and apparently I was part of a present. They were old friends and one had arranged to take the other to the Old Fire Engine House for lunch, then onto me.

I hope I measured up to  expectations but I did get a nice Email afterwards