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There is for me nothing that revives my drooping spirit more than a walk in nature, you don’t have to walk far, maybe just into the garden to see the miracle of life and to hear birdsong and the humming of insects. Nature gives in every season, but there is something magical and inspirational inContinue reading “The Gift”

Sometimes you just need to pick up your pencils, paints and brush and just paint. I am not reknown for planning much anyway, and my paintings tend to just evolve. For this I had a vague idea that I wanted to add a hare. Hope you like it, it was fun to do anyway

that perches in the soul that sings the tune without the words and never stops at all Emily Dickinson

This is Summer in Suffolk it is a very big painting, the biggest that I have done, and I think that it really deserves to be seen in the fleash, but I am biased . It currently hangs on the wall in the Darlington Society of Arts annual exhibition. It makes me so happy itContinue reading “Richmond Station Exhibition”

This is the top right of the painting that I am currently working on. At the moment I have about four paintings that I am working on, none are finished, this one is almost finished. I decided to add the soft blue behind the owl and to leave the owl itself largely the colours ofContinue reading “Owl Detail”

This is a detail of part of this painting, it is a bit startling to see it this large as the laptop has magnified my photo, it’s a bit like looking in a magnified mirror , it shows all of the flaws. She is not as large as this, and she doesn’t dominate the painting,Continue reading “Song of Summer”

This is a detail of a much larger painting, that I have been working on, on and off for a long time. I have finally framed it. I think that this is my favourite image from the painting. Why the title? Inspiration I have been looking up the word, and it literally means breathe lifeContinue reading “Inspiration”

Here is the whole of the painting, I have tried to show fashions changing during the ten decades that the Society of the Arts has been running. I always think of South Park as a wonderful place and so I featured the bandstand and the clock tower. Darlington is so lucky to have the ParkContinue reading “Art full of love the whole of the story”

Here is another image from my painting to celebrate the joy of art and the centenary of Darlington Society of the Art., I think of art as a super power that inspires, calms, motivates, capitvates and moves both the artist and the viewer. More lilies this time Star Gazer ones, white and blue iris andContinue reading “Art Full of love image 2”

Here is a section of my painting Art Full of Love. It’s a big painting framed it’s about 71cm by 81cm. It is a departure for me because for the first time I painted it specially for a special event with a theme firmly in mind. Usually I let the paint decide what I wouldContinue reading “Art Full of Love”