Welcome to my blog. Here you will find some detail and background about each painting – techniques, materials, tools, tips etc. You will see a link in each blog – if you click this, it will take you to my paintings where I have uploaded some more photos.
All the fun of the Fayre
Well, what a day that was! I’m not used to standing on my feet for most of the day but it was well worth it. I met some really nice people and got some really good feedback. As you can see from the picture above, I managed to get quite a few of my paintings into a pretty small space. The icing on the cake was that I sold several paintings and a quite a few baubles, all of which went to loving homes 😊
Christmas Fayre
Just a quick post to let you know that I’ll be displaying some of my paintings at this year’s Christmas Fayre at Canada Lodge and Lake canadalodgeandlake.com on Saturday December 14th. If you’d like to come along and see my work, I’d love to meet you and have a chat. If you’re looking for that last minute gift, I’ll have loads of baubles to tempt you!
Baubles!
Where has that time gone? One minute it was the Spring and now it’s nearly Christmas!
I’ve been itching to have a go at painting some baubles and have had hours of fun sourcing them – you wouldn’t believe the shapes and sizes available! It’s been a case of learning some new techniques and creating some new tools to help me produce of them. It’s quite a surprise that I’ve got some left to photograph; they’ve been really popular and I haven’t advertised them at all. I will be getting these ready for early next year, so if you are interested, let me know, as I do have some left. They range in size from 40mm to 100mm, but there are also flat balls and really sweet little light bulb shapes, in all colours. I”ll be uploading some pictures soon to my Baubles page and I’d love to know what you think.
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Yes, I know it’s been some time and I apologise 😊 – we took some time off to visit Cornwall. We had a fab time; the weather was kind to us and the food was seriously good. Anyway, now that I’m back in the saddle so to speak, here is a spinner… It’s a big one, must be that time away – my first one back and I thought go big or go back on holiday. This was a tough one but the painting won this time 🤣 I hope you all like it, great colours; must have been the sea that inspired this one.
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No spinning in this one, just a good old deconstructed bloom/landscape and just playing with the same colour pallet from last time. How different is the outcome between spinning to stretching! There is some lovely line work in this one which I really like but it has got a bit of everything.
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Yet another quick blog to show you another colour pallet which is so rich and vibrant. Again this is only a little one but what a beauty.
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Just a very quick blog, I had to share this little gem with you; the cells, lacing and colours look amazing. Small but perfectly formed.
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Well, I’m still on the spinning folks and still trying out different combinations of colours. I won’t go into to much detail today but this one reminds me of a mythical fairy. I just love the colour combinations – just look at the detail!
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I’ve done it at last; a monster spin painting measuring 60cm x 60cm and I am really proud of it. It has dried really well – usually I am not really a pink girl but I love this one. However, this is the maximum size I can spin in my spinning tank (ok, so it’s a ball pit), any bigger and I won’t have any room left to work around it!
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So here is my next spin painting. Not to shabby, again trying another colour combination which I think has worked really well. All of the paintings I have been spinning have (for me) been a lot smaller than I usually work with but I am working my way up to a big one…