it’s all about watercolours
A bit of an odd one this week. I have been painting and I have even produced a painting that I’m really pleased with, but unfortunately I can’t share it. Well, at least not yet I can’t! The painting is based very literally on a photograph that I found on Instagram that is owned by …
I was thrilled to sell this sketchbook study, The baker recently. It was in one of the many sketchbooks that I had with me during the recent Sussex Watercolour Society exhibition at the Linklater Pavilion in Lewes. I started to have my sketchbooks available for people to browse through when I exhibited back in May …
Last weekend’s Sussex Watercolour Society exhibition was a great success and I had a great time! Here’s me in front of my display on the evening of the private view (during which I completely failed to take any photos!) On the Sunday, I spent a lovely day painting and chatting to visitors. I did, however, …
The annual Sussex Watercolour Society exhibition takes place this weekend at the Linklater Pavilion in Lewes, East Sussex. It will be open from 2-5pm on Friday 6th September (with a Private View from 6-8pm) then from 10am-5pm on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September. I’ve been trying to prepare myself for this for a few …
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I didn’t post anything last Wednesday, or indeed last Thursday when I realised that I’d missed my usual Wednesday post. It was a strange feeling of mixed emotions. On the one hand, I was quite disappointed in myself for breaking what I think was about a seven year run of weekly Wednesday posts, come rain …
My next exhibition is only three or so weeks ago and the realisation suddenly hit me that I’m not sure I’ve got enough work to muster an appearance! I’ll be exhibiting again with the Sussex Watercolour Society at the Linklater Pavilion in Lewes, East Sussex from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th September. Since my last …
We’re just back from Barcelona and, as much as we have a wonderful city and home to return too… I’m still in denial that we’ve had to leave wonderful Barcelona. It hit 37 degrees in Barcelona on the day we left, and we arrived home to the hottest day of the year in the UK …
Oh the difference a week can make! This time last week, I was scrabbling around in the dark on Brighton beach desperately, and unsuccessfully, looking for my glasses that I’d lost whilst out walking the dog! To finish that particular episode off, I returned to the beach again at about 7am the next morning to …
I’m still playing about in my sketchbook until the mood or inspiration to do something larger hits me! This is one of my recent favourites. Sometimes, it can just be the simplest of things that catches your eye or strikes a chord. This sketch is just such an example. We took our barbeque up to …
In the past few weeks I’ve had quite a few conversations with people who had all heard, on the best authority, that here in the UK we can look forward to rain during 55 days of the next 60. As we’d just experienced biblical rainfall whilst camping over half term, the prospect of an entire …
