Blue Curve 2

Blue Curve 2

Blue Curve


"Blue Curve 2" I did after my last post ... so I did act on those itchy fingers! 


 "Blue Curve", which I have on my living room wall - is one of my favourites, it is often admired, so I thought I would use it as a starting place for another picture. I just had a good look at it and then went up to my studio and painted my version 2. A colour or combination of colours is often my starting point, blue being a favourite - in fact sometimes I have to work hard not to paint blue pictures all the time. Though I suppose if I did it would be fine anyway! I like this very much and have actually sold it! To a friend, but it is very exciting to sell a work! I struggle with the selling side - particulary as with friends I always want to give them away, but Jenny has insisted that she buy it - as encouragement to take my work seriously, which is  indeed marvellously encouraging. 


I find both of these paintings quite contemplative - almost meditative. Ripples or the surface of water is in some way the inspiration, but not in a straightforward naturalistic way but I have tried painting water and this resembles what I did then.

Mosaics at last

For years I have been saving broken crockery and having 'rescued' two wooden reels that have had electricity cable on them, and having our wedding as a deadline, I finally managed to do something with some of my hoard. These mosaic tables are the result. I'm really pleased! I added some plastic bottle tops, glass pebbles and broken tiles. The middles of the reels have rope wound round them, and the wood was painted with a blue paint for garden furniture, as they are for the garden. They looked great for our wedding parties!

Red Bubble

I recently started putting my work on Red Bubble. You can buy cards and prints of it from there, but also it's a community of artists who give feedback to each other. I haven't really got into that bit yet, as I'm a bit hesitant as I've only put three photos up so far, but my intentions are good....

This is one of the works - it's a favourite of mine - I was using a knife rather than a brush (or as well as) which is fun as you can get these repeated 'cuts' into the paint.