Missing painting

Posted on November 22, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, blue crab, Fine Art, Gone, Lost, Missing, Painting, Sister, Visit7 Comments

When we went up to my sisters house last week I looked for the painting I had done her for her birthday. She passed away a few weeks ago and I would like to retrieve this and a painting of a lobster I also did for her. Unfortunately the house is full of things, she was like me, a collector of all sorts of things, and I have no idea where she has put them. I feel like I should ask her family for them back unless they want them themselves. So much to sort out. So sad to not have her in my life anymore.

Willow pattern painting

Posted on November 17, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Ceramics, Design, Spode, Willow patternLeave a comment

I found this in my studio last week. I thought I had sold it. I used two seperated photos of different plates and amalgamated them. I also found a painting of a jug and a teapot. I might try and find them a new home….

Scene

Posted on November 17, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fun, Life, more needed, Painting, Sadness, Scenery2 Comments

Landscape painted a couple of months ago. I may paint more in this style. I just need to get organised. Life has been hard over the last few weeks, but it must carry on (hopefully). I need to move this from one gallery to another so more people see it. X

Old owls

Posted on November 16, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Five years ago, minature paintings, Owls, Paint, Painting, TimeLeave a comment

A painting from five years ago. I do like painting birds, particularly owls. I made a few in pottery class at school, I just like the circles of feathers round their faces that help direct sound to their ears (I might be wrong?) and do they have one ear higher than the other for the same reason. I need to find out.

Preparations

Posted on November 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Life, Makers market, Miniatures, Painting, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Studio 21, Time3 Comments

I will be at studio 21 at Spode tomorrow for our annual Open Day. Come and see me painting in the studio or visit the makers market where I will have minature paintings for sale. Then during the day I will try to complete a new painting of a bottle oven (a pottery kiln).

It’s been two years since I’ve been there properly. My fear of Covid, then illness and bereavement have kept me out. But everyone was so nice today. I’ve entered some of my minature paintings for the craft Market. I thought people might use them as Christmas stocking fillers. There’s everything from a tiny giraffe with an abstract background to a small Jupiter with great red storm and a moon passing by. Maybe I will sell a few.

Collection

Posted on November 1, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brampton museum and art gallery, Fine Art, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Open exhibition, Owl, Painting3 Comments

I have to go and collect my owl painting from the Brampton open exhibition tomorrow. It was for sale and I would have liked to have sold it. I have an open studio day at Spode on November 12th so perhaps I could sell it there. I am pessimistic though. There is less money available and I think things will get a lot worse before it gets better. Being an artist doesn’t make you rich! But I can’t stop painting.

Jigsaw!

Posted on October 29, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Christmas, Design, Flowers, Fun, Jigsaw, opportunity, Painting2 Comments

The gallery I have my poppy paintings in has used my poppy meditation to create a jigsaw puzzle. I need to see it in reality to check the colours and clarity of it but was a lovely surprise. Lots of thoughts about other ideas too. Cushion covers, tee shirts? A whole new world of opportunity.

A favourite

Posted on October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumn, Autumn woman, Fine Art, Fun, Life, Painting, Seven years ago2 Comments

A favourite painting done seven years ago. It was called Autumn Woman and was snapped up by an old friend. I like slightly surreal images, thinking about traditional art and giving it a slight twist. I may do a painting that includes leaves and fungi using this as an inspiration. I’m so happy with the colour combinations, I forgot that you can include blue as an autumnal colour.

Two finished

Posted on October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, art's and Minds, Close up, Fine Art, Finished, Harper Street, Life, Middleport, Painting, Plants, Poppy, Rememberance, twoLeave a comment

I decided to do a bonus small painting to go with my bigger close up of a poppy. It’s called red poppy. It’s hard to come up with an original title. Lots of red used in these but I’ve tried to vary them and give that wrinkled feeling that poppies have.

Close-up poppy

Posted on October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black, Colours, Flowers, Plant, Poppy, Red, White, Work in progressLeave a comment

I think this might be finished but I’m waiting for daylight to check the colours. I might tone down the white and I may add some blue tones to make it feel like the sky is being reflected in it. The poppy was real, but I took this from a painting I did of a photo so I might look at some images of poppies.

Mallaband-Brown

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