Boxing day

I haven’t had a lot of time to be creative recenly, what with Christmas etc, however this week  I did manage to do a doggy portrait for a friend’s present: and the vegetarian  “turkey” was a little sculpture in nut roast and pastry:   next year, next year…. new resolutions as usual, involving me painting…

Winter Solstice draws near.

Although we shall see the arrival of Winter Solstice in a few days and mornings are heavy with frost, come noon, day after day we’ve been bathed in glorious glaring sunshine, the cristal clear light streams through windows with unforgiving brilliance, equally the cloudless nights are brimming with mystical moonlight, while the eerie shapes in the landscape cloak themselves…