Artist celebrating nature’s colours through painting, mixed media and textiles artwork
Just an update that Larkspur has a new home in the town centre of Leamington Spa. Currently, beautifully sited in view of the window of LSA gallery: 5 Satchwell Court, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 4QE
Monday to Saturday
10.00am – 5.00pm
Sunday
11.00am – 4.00pm
Come and see our art collective of local Midlands and Warwickshire artists here in East Lodge, Willes Road, Royal Leamington Spa!, Warwickshire.
To give you a flavour there’s a short video here.
What an exciting day yesterday at the Courtyard Gallery when all my artwork was mounted! I’ve really enjoyed putting the collection together for Beautiful Open Spaces. It’s been a long awaited day after a great deal of painting! Come and visit, it’s open now until 8 June!
It’s come to this, I can’t believe I can’t formulate an image in my head, I can’t think of anything, it’s gone dead!
These and many other phrases are said by most artists at some time or other, believe me! It can happen at any time, time away from the fluidity of painting for whatever reason or life events. It happens to most of us!
Best advice is not to fret, easy hey? Not always, so, sketch pad to hand… doodle! Shapes, lines, swirls, anything. Relax, get comfortable. Before you know it you’ll be finding some reoccurring theme to your doodles. Keep with it, now move into thumb nail sketches, as many and as crazy as you like but above all remain relaxed – this is your time. Get the colours out and continue doodling or playing with colours. Allow yourself to play. This is one of my best top tips: allow yourself to play. Out of this time will flow ideas or feelings that you may not have been fully aware of. Take this further and you’re on the road to your next piece.
Happy discovery x
When the exhibition space is notable, although the space is difficult it calls for more creative thinking!
Tomorrow, some fellow artists and myself are assembling our artwork. We’ve received some internal shots but no dimensions with which to plan out the use of space. There are 10 of us who have been personally invited to exhibit in the Chapel at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, UK. We’d love you to come and visit us!
We have acrylic paintings, oil, textiles, 3D. Every artist creates her or his artwork in a unique and wonderful way and we’re happy to talk with you about it!
It could be a challenge to safely assemble our framed canvases in a way that is also pleasing to the visitors eye. The good news is we help each other, think of solutions and tend to be stalwarts! If you’re unable to visit us in the Chapel then I’ll update you how we went!
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