I recently completed 3 more commissions see as follows, (although I seem to have lost the third photo, I must have forgotten to take one); I enjoy painting animals so I painted some geese right after finishing them. I’m still in the throws of preparing for an exhibition, ( with 4 other artists) which opens…
Spring is here, the verges and gardens are spattered with flowering primroses and cowslips. I heard my first cuckoo on the 19th March and there is warmth is the sun at last. Meanwhile the work on the ceiling progresses slowly. The whole ceiling has now been cleaned of it’s 40 years of grime, the next…
I haven’t posted a blog for a while now. Reason? The weather. In January we had thunder and lightening, and high winds causing a major power surge, which, even though the computer was plugged into a ps backup device, grilled the backup battery as well as the sockets. The computer was completely dead after that,…
You may wonder why Graham is peering at the roof through binoculars, well, he is checking his handiwork has been properly carried out, scraping all the moss off each individual tile of course! ( A task that could have been set by Rumpelstiltskin.) I’m sure passers-by think he is quite mad, but when he sets…
My main exhibitions are finished for this year, I have one more project for a Christmas exhibition: we are several artists and the theme is “boxes” so I will be working on those the next few weeks; although I really want to work more on abstract ideas, I will have to curb these in order…
The August exhibition is up and running at St Avit Senieur. We are four artists: a sculptor and 3 painters. I haven’t had a chance to photograph their work as yet; I will be invigilating on Monday , so I will do so then, and post them up next time. Here are a few of my latest…
All day long yesterday and today we could hear the distant mournful cries of cranes as they fly North from their winter feeding grounds in Spain and Africa, up to the Baltic States to nest and breed during the summer months. They fly above the house twice a year when heading either north in Spring, or south in Autumn. It lifts your heart…
After such horrible happenings last week, it seems a bit self-indulgent to post anything that isn’t meaningful or thought provoking, but life must go on I suppose. Solidarity seems to be the key word here in France. It was incredibly moving to see so many people gathering together with a common feeling of disgust and…
You may remember this handsome woodpile which was delivered in August, all 18 tonnes of it; the story of Rumplestiltskin comes to mind watching Graham steadily reduce it; sawing, chopping then stacking the logs in our woodshed. If you are wondering at the shapes of these logs, they are the “first cuts” off oak and chestnut, before…
Last year I started a project to try to do a daily painting. I fell short of my target,of course, but it was a good exercise for me, and at the very least, I added to my collection for this year’s exhibitions! I plan to do more once the trompes are completed, and…
Putting my thoughts about classical music into words.
Lily S. May--Life with Art
sharing the creative process of artist, illustrator, and book lover, Judy Watson
Sharing my work and thoughts....
painting...drawing...making small worlds
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postcards from the hedge - a blog by Phil Cooper
views from the artist's studio.
ARTIST: oils, watercolours, trompe l'œil and design
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