Painted!

Posted on December 4, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, bottle kilns, Bottle ovens, Craft fair, Fine Art, Night, Paintings, Sky, Stars, StylisedLeave a comment

My paintings from yesterday. The small ones have ribbons attached so they can hang from a Christmas tree.

Close up of one of the larger ones. Two bottle kilns side by side, at night, a frosty gleam on them and a patchy, cloudy sky with stars peeping through. The shape of the wisp of smoke mimics the curve of the moon. I used acrylics and glitter glue to give the frosty effect. The smallest canvases are about 1 x 1.5 inches. The bigger ones are around 6x 4.5 and 4.5 inches. They are on display at the Waiting room gallery, I’m pleased to say they are there with other works that I have done for the next week.

Mr X

Posted on November 21, 2021November 22, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Art, College work, Fine Art, Mr X, Oil on board, Oil painting, PortraitLeave a comment

Oil painting on board of a friend I painted while I was at college. The Mr X refers to his name when he was in a band. I glued the poster to the painting and added an image of one of his pictures in the background behind him. I think I did the painting from life but I don’t really remember, it was painted about 40 years ago x

Vase painting

Posted on November 20, 2021November 21, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Fine Art, Gold, imitating cloisonné, Japanese style, Life, Painting, Pattern, Satsuma style4 Comments

My attempt at painting a Japanese style vase. Using gold and lots of flower and leaf patterns I tried to recreate the feeling of a Cloisonné or Satsuma vase. I’m no expert but I just wanted it to have complexity and stature. My love of pattern really helped. This was taken when I had almost completed the work. I placed it on the floor to try and catch the sunlight illuminating it. One of my favourite paintings, it went to a very good home.

Autumn acers

Posted on November 2, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, blanket of leaves, Colours, Fine Art, Fun, Leaves, Painting, Pattern, Trees2 Comments

I usually look out from underneath trees, but here I looked up and took a photo of twisting branches and limbs. Then I tried to paint the leaves. Dark towards the trunks, lighter where they reach out into airy space. Leaves are amazing. Because they can move towards the light (phototropic) they can move into the gaps where the light gets through. Like a jigsaw puzzle, filling in the spaces. Then suddenly in autumn deciduous trees drop their leaves as the cold and wind catches them out. Great blankets of leaves are now lying below the local trees. Crunching through their crispness is one of my favourite things before they turn soggy in the cold rain. Glorious!

Autumn woman

Posted on October 29, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged autumn leaves, Autumn woman, Fine Art, introverted, Life, Painting, Pandemic, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

This is my painting ‘autumn woman’ I did a few years ago. I wish I was doing more art like this but I’ve really been overwhelmed by trying to do other college work. There are other things I need to do too. This covid pandemic have made my introverted ways even more entrenched. I wish I had the freedom I used to have. But self isolation and protecting myself have been my consideration all the way through. My hubby and I still insist on wearing masks… Although many seem to have forgotten the need for them, forgotten or are ignoring. Our prime minister does not show a good example… Oh I must not stray into politics!

Hey ho! Got to find my mojo!

Story tiles

Posted on October 23, 2021December 15, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged BCB, Ceramics, China clay, Cornwall, Fine Art, Jack Clemo, Life, Poet, Pottery, St Austell, writerLeave a comment

A view of St Austell in Cornwall that was at the BCB exhibition recently at Swift House, Stoke-on-Trent. With subtle tones of sepia colour it depicted a semi industrial landscape. I didn’t see a notice but I’m guessing it was made of China clay which has been quarried there for centuries. One of the sites was used to create the Eden Project, a set of giant domed greenhouses or ‘biomes’ which house tropical and arid environments from more equatorial climes.

St Austell is a town in Cornwall inland from the southern coast, in a landscape dotted with abandoned tin mines. It was once the home of a famous poet called Jack Clemo. He was blind but managed to write his poems while supported by his mother in the 1950’s?

I still love this meme

Posted on September 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Education, Fine Art, Fun, Learning, Meme, Pattern, Thinking, Time2 Comments

1 in 5 teenagers experiment with art….I don’t know who created it, but I love it!

I shared this meme three years ago on Facebook because it spoke to me. Art is so important to the world. You need art to design things, to have an idea of what clothes, cars, white goods, trains, homes, workplaces will look like. Cutting funding for the arts hits theatre, performing arts, music, computer aided design, surface pattern, and so many other services that bring income into countries. It’s not just painting and sculpture, printmaking and textiles, ceramics and surface pattern. Artists and designers help support the world. Next time you use a plate to eat off, cutlery to eat with, use a table to sit at, wear clothes that fit you and are not grey tubes of rough cloth, then remember art helps to design out world.

I need to go back…

Posted on September 11, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Covid, delta variant, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Prevarication, Time, worried nervous2 Comments

My studio, I’m still nervous because of the delta variant of covid to go back into it. I need to paint but I’ve got that feeling that I’m on a knife edge, I don’t know what to do? It’s strange, I’m spending the money but for almost two years now I have felt very worried. Maybe I need some talking therapy, everything is getting too much….

Will the Leopard reopen?

Posted on August 14, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Burslem, Emulsion on lining paper, Fine Art, Memories, Mural, Painting, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, The Leopard HotelLeave a comment

In about 2006 and 2007 I painted several murals in the Arnold Bennett suite of the Leopard Hotel. It has appeared on Britain’s most Haunted on TV and until a couple of years ago was still open. Now no one seems to know what is happening with it. I’m sure it still needs a lot of work doing on it. No doubt my murals will get painted over if it is refurbished. It’s sad, because for a few years the place thrived. But there was also bad luck there. I wish things coukd be better for it. X

Dog, work in progress

Posted on July 23, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animal portrait, Art, Colours, Dog, Fine Art, fur, Painting, Texture, Work in progress4 Comments

Acrylic on canvas, a few more layers. The rough edges of his coat, where they touch the grass, need sorting out. The dig has got a silver coat and a collar and lead on which I’ve left out so I’m trying to decide where the shadows should fall and his fur. I think I’ve made some of it too yellow, I need daylight to check.

Mallaband-Brown

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