Playing and exploring

Playing and exploring

So much to learn I have been creating so much and learning. Such a good thing I love learning and the web has so many amazing resources. Growing my business is a challenge and definitely a steep learning curve. I am of course leaving lots of time for paint play so I...

Abstraction and flowers

I never saw myself as a flower painter…still life etc wasn’t a topic I focused on but times change. I love working on my figurative pieces but it is nice to explore ways of keeping my work fresh. I am having so much fun exploring simplified flowers and...
Color previewers

Color previewers

I continued working on my paintings but decided to make my own version of the colour previewers that I saw on ‘colour in your life’ when they visited Susan in her studios in NZ. If you have not seen any of the Colour in Your Lufe TV shows, do go to the...
A gentle breeze…

A gentle breeze…

Colour play… Sometimes it’s the small details and the uncountable layers that finally take you to a place where you can sit back and say…it is finished. there were many stages along the way and she has evolved from the original sketch. The small...
Painting, adjusting and accepting changes

Painting, adjusting and accepting changes

I have had one of those difficult weeks. My daughters adventurous cat Nix was sadly hit by a car and after 2 days came home. He jumped a full sized back fence with a foot that was all bones and blood. Time has been about caring for him as after amputation of his back...