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Exhibiting is always exciting!

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.

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Stay cool and paint!

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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Designing for Christmas!

It might sound strange but come August Christmas card designs for private clients started!

Researching trends and colours for this year and design ideas resulted in one of the designs: Christmas in a Bottle. Work in progress… 🎅🏻

One of the Christmas card designs showing work in progress, 2020

Come October I will be encouraging students to create their own designs to send out to their loved ones 💕 🎄