Artist celebrating nature’s colours through painting, mixed media and textiles artwork
Hi and welcome!
If you would be interested in attending an Onlocation art session in Solihull, UK, 2nd September 2023 please complete the Contact sheet.
The art sessions are 2.5 hours in duration and always outside, drawing on the beauty of nature. It’s a great way of gaining new skills, ways of seeing and being with other like-minded people!
Drop me a line on the Contact sheet and I can provide more details 🖼️
The build up to a two day event is enormous but when the weather forecasters predict wind, heavy rain and possibly lightning it certainly ramps up the drama!
Happily this event, in the Jefferson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, UK, happens annually and so the main organisers are very attuned. This year I’m exhibiting with a number of fellow artists and I’m very glad of it! Everything is hopefully lashed down for the potentially horrid weather! We’re all in it together!
Here’s hoping the great British weather decides to lay off this weekend!
The difficult subject of pricing one’s artwork! I’m sighing already, it’s something that has to be done but is the least pleasant job of all!
There are various suggestions and ways of calculating this online and they are very helpful. I find that the gallery usually has the best idea of pricing but it doesn’t always represent how I might feel about the work. This can work both ways! I give myself my lecturer’s hourly pay x how many hour’s plus the cost of the materials. This is a good start and then add a percentage to this, or x it up. But, this is where it becomes messy and uncomfortable and unpleasant and I’d far rather walk away and the job is unfinished!
Having worked out the actual cost and my hourly rate I know the basic, plus how much the gallery charges so that has to go into the equation too. Ultimately, talking to the gallery who have a good insight on their clients, is currently my deciding factor. As you can tell by reading this – it is still my least pleasant task in producing an artwork!
No matter how many years people have been working away, when a gallery or museum accepts your work it’s still a thrill!
Artwork wise, it’s being an exciting year for me! I haven’t had time to blog! Crazy! Magical Deep Sea Diving is being exhibited at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery in Coventry city centre this Spring. My framed mixed media artwork with wet felting, silver, copper wire, silk embroidery. It was a wonderful opening evening a while ago.
Next month sees the opening of a new exhibition in Royal Leamington Spa entitled Deadly Sins. It’s hard to choose which of the seven to illustrate! So I went with my favourite… Sloth! Got to have a sloth day now and again, being lazy occasionally does me good! So, dreaming of summer in such a wet spring of 2023 is no bad thing, positively a good thing! Entitled: Lazy Dreamy Day it’s on show at the LSA Art Room, 5 Satchwell Place, Leamington Spa town centre (opposite Caluccios) from Saturday 6th May. This piece is textile art with silk embroidery. Come and see all the wonderful artwork on display from our local artists of Warwickshire and the Midlands!
See you there.
It might be sweltering outside but keep the blinds closed and enter the world of creating!
It’s worth printing out colour images and saving them in a protective file as you come across different topics. I’ve built up a wonderful image library over the decades! I keep them in sections (to be honest there are so many I have different book files!) and on a day like this a quick flip through soon motivates me into creating my next new acrylic painting (if I haven’t one on the go!).
Select your colour palette, take a deep breath and off you go into a wonderful colourful world! Happy painting! 🎉 🎨
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