visual artist : contemplating time, memory, and transformation.
#6WS #Sixwordsaturday Is time really going faster- it sometimes feels like it A busy week for me after returning home from looking after three of my grandchildren. Monday in the print room was almost a disaster but I salvaged at least one outcome and hopefully have some material to work with at my next session …
abandoned landscapes and the stories they carry
It has been a busy few months with renewed printmaking at The Forge and submissions to open calls. A couple of rejections coupled with a successful submission to an Open Call locally and an opportunity to exhibit as part of the annual Art Trail in Hertford. I am delighted to be exhibiting several of my …
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OWS My one word Sunday : Rain Who doesn’t love a rainbow - even when it’s bucketing down!
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The Hertford Art Trail 2024 will launch on April 6th 2024 I will be exhibiting six mono print in 'The Shop' Parliament Square Hertford until April 20th. The Art Trail MAP below shows the venues in and around the town. Here are a few examples of my unique mono prints some of which will be …
#6WS #SixWordSaturday Not too far to drive for a short get away break Friendly and familiar Good food and renowned fish and chips Thoroughly English seaside town with an added bonus of culture with it's many galleries, cinema and nearby concert hall at Snape Looking forward to our next visit.
Six Word Saturday What a joy yesterday sitting in the garden in the sunshine. Except that like most of us, I suspect, sitting was interspersed with jumping up with secateurs in hand and snipping off dead ends of shrubs. As my garden is presently a container garden, I'm also continually moving the pots around as …
From my first car to my Dad's last journey- in style and my wonderful children and grandchildren.
One Word Sunday : Hand ; Express; Nurture; defend; protect; touch; communicate; help; hold........... take my hand, give me a hand, hand me..., hold my hand, many hands......
A new project for a new year Early stages gathering images and thoughts together for this upcoming exhibition. Drawing on images in the archive and new research this is where I’m at ….
Christmas is coming #silentsunday
It is that time -following a big project, time to reflect, time to assess. There is a goal post for next year - in May- June 2023 a group exhibition with five colleagues from Digswell Arts. But where to start? We have a three word theme to respond to : Time Traces Transformation. Some ideas …
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August brings first my Dad's Birthday - he will be ninety eight this year, and my Daughter's birthday follows near the end of the month.
Photo a day challenge July 31 I am still here so that is something to be grateful for and therefor not goodbye but onwards and onwards we go hopefully without too many spikes and even more hopefully a steady trend downwards as far as the pandemic is concerned. So, reasons to be cheerful: Family First....my …
The Alliums have reached lofty heights and now waiting for the Agapanthus to bloom, Square Perspectives Giant Alliums
Up the Garden Path today look what I found- seemingly a daisy but yellow not the usual white with yellow centre, this is life at the moment and yearnings for places further afield are soon to be realised later in the year...with a planned visit to St Ives. During which was to be the Arts …
'P' A plethora of choice for this prompt today. Party, Pub, Portrait, pigeons, to name a few. I was going with pigeons, but then thought, of course it's obvious, Painting. But then I thought! Of course it has to be Painting, although I haven't been doing much painting lately, just some watercolour sketchbook work. https://videopress.com/v/kbmDRtGO?preloadContent=metadata …
Relax ing in my wonderful compact garden. Enough for me to take care of, and immense pleasure after the work of tidying, watering, pruning, preening and mowing the lawn...now time to relax.
Back in the late 1950's I have a memory of a day trip to Southend. A day at the seaside always exciting but this was a really special trip - Dad had booked a trip in an aeroplane. The three of us in a tiny light aircraft flew around the Southend Airport countryside- with a …
June Colours and Letters 'Ending with H' Perch: perching often in precarious places! Sketch: sketches taken from my collection of hag stones. Part of Time and Tide Exhibition at Courtyard Arts Winch: Memories of a fabulous stay at the Winch House- complete with the original winch!
v a search in the photo library came up with several categories for V. Vesture, Vehicle, Video and so on. What to go with? Always excited to discover the memories that are selected by i photo. I've gone with the category Veg and bizarrely a mono print identified as a Vinyl - the last image …
Reflections of what life used to be: https://youtu.be/LRjCqaX2IvQ and here I've taken this in my kitchen just now!
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