A bit of car

This is an alternator that my husband acquired, disovered it was non-functional, and left in the garden.

Bradgate Heights - not for sale

This is based on a photograph of my two children at Bradgate Park, Leicester. The image stood out from the many photographs that I took; it was full of rich contrast. It was begging to be painted.

Exhibition in October

Starts 02 October

From the Poppyfield

This is from one of the photographs mentioned in Sitting in a Poppy Field / Basingstoke Poppies. It was a rainy day when I painted this.

Acrylic on box canvas, 20 x 26 cm

25 September 2013
SOLD

School Mural update

Passing enthusiastic child: "It looks just like a picture of our village."
Me: "It is a picture of our village."

New Book - teaser and special offer

I'm just putting the finishing touches to a new volume of paintings. The lefthand Hurlers painting was crucial to Rock, Canvas, Painting Knife, but there's room for something painted with a brush, too, and that's one of the finishing touches I'm working on ...

I'm hoping to take advantage of Blurb's "Flash Sale" - 25% off for the rest of September.

And should you also wish to get money off at Blurb, you will need to know the discount code, which is 25AUTUMN. Offer details here.

More Hurlers

At Easter, we visited Bodmin Moor's Hurlers; in July I painted some of them. The painting seemed lonely, and seemed to need a companion piece It's taken me a while to get around to doing it, but I've finally painted a second Hurlers piece.