WOODLAND LITTLE GEMS

Needed to stock up my store of LITTLE GEM paintings, so on this blustery wet day have been enjoying the comfort of my study and creating two little woodland scenes in acrylic inks.

RECENT ACTIVITY

Sorry I  have not been onto my blog for so long but I have had a bad time with re-action to statins since June giving me inflamed and weak muscles, but I soldered on and produced new works throughout the summer and with my lovely art friends exhibited quite a few times with some successes of sales. The latest was last night at the Preview of the NOVA show at the Atrium North Walsham, a newly built art centre costing £5million! Its the painting above created for a themed show of EXPOSED and its in layers and layers of mixed media on a 3ft square box canvas called RUNNING FOR HOME.

Other successes were my acrylic ink LITTLE GEM series when I sold three at the Forum in Norwich City. 

1 Corner of my Garden

2 Cromer Beach near the Pier

3 Waterfall at Bodnant Gardens 

Hope these give any viewers a taster of what I have been up to. 

LILY PADS

Spent the year taking care of my husband until he died from cancer late October.  With the support of my marvelous family and friends, I will now get back into blogging and posting images on my flickr account.

This is one of the 'LITTLE GEMS' series I created throughout the summer, as it was easier to paint small (5 or 7 inches only) and still be available for Clive. Eight of these works have just been hung in the Picturecraft Gallery in Holt, Norfolk for the Christmas show.

After some six weeks since I picked up a brush, I hope to get back to creating having attended a wonderful two days at Sue Williams cottage earlier this week working in the Fauvre style - just what I needed 'bright, bright, psychedelic unnatural colours, ie green skies and torquoise buildings!! '

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

When we lived in the Fens, we were near many orchards and, in fact, our home was called Cherry trees. This little gem 7" square was inspired by our happy times there through the wonder of memories and imagination . As usual, acrylic inks on Lana Vanguard.

NORFOLK COASTAL PATH AT HOLKHAM BEACH

When sketching with Anita at Holkham Beach, noticed people making their way along the path at the back of the beach which leads in an hour's quiet stroll to Wells next the sea. Understand it is part of the Norfolk Coastal Path. This painting is acrylic ink on Lana Vanguard sized 12" x 8" and I will be submitting to the selection panel of the Norwich Art Circle for exhibition in the Forum. The reddish coloured beach depicts the special kind of vegetation found in this area by the sea. Maybe a type of seaweed.

CRUMBLING CLIFFS NEAR CROMER

Another 'little gem'  5" square acrylic ink work on Lana Vanguard.

Its sad to say that many of the cliffs along the north coast of Norfolk are crumbling away, as in many parts of our lovely English coastline.  Every so often from Hunstanton along to Cromer and beyond these gorgeous red and white cliffs can be seen in this state of erosion.

THE SAPLINGS

My series of 'little gems' grows almost daily and here is the latest based on the many silver birch saplings in the woods I constantly drive past as I leave home on my various trips.  This one is a 5" square created with poured inks with selected opposing  colours and textured by using waxed paper.