Saturday 21 December 2013

Friday 20 December 2013

Winter Greens

I have been working on this 100x100cm painting. It has a lot of colour, and a lot of paint!

Winter Greens
100x100cm
acrylic on canvas

Bright day

Update on my small wintery paintings, last seen here...

Winter Pink, Winter Grey
30x30cm
acrylic on canvas


Winter Pink, Winter Grey II
30x30cm
acrylic on canvas

'English Summer' on a winter's day

I am so grateful to Saatchi Online for their support this year. It has meant a lot to me. I am so pleased to have sold my large 'English Summer' painting through them.

 English Summer
150x150cm
acrylic on canvas




Thursday 19 December 2013

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Wintery work in progress

I am warming up to winter. These two works in progress are both small, at 30x30cm. The palette is firmly warm greys and pinks.





Sunday 15 December 2013

December painting finished

I have enjoyed working on this 100x100cm canvas. The layering of mark-making is very satisfying.


 December
100x100cm
acrylic on canvas


Painting commissioned completed

Summer Sky, Summer Rain
90x90cm
acrylic on canvas
sold

A favourite palette of mine, with greens and blue predominating.

Thursday 12 December 2013

December fog

I live at the bottom of a hill, fog and mist hangs around here when it has long disappeared elsewhere.

I am working on this larger piece, full of blues, greys, purples, pinks and foggy white. Very December like!

December
100x100cm
acrylic on canvas
work in progress

I have also just finished this smallish painting.

 Festival
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas


Tuesday 10 December 2013

Inside the Studio at Saatchi Online

Every week, Saatchi Online run an interview looking at an artist and their studio, work practice etc. This week it happens to be me!! 
It's great exposure for me, I am really grateful to Saatchi Online for supporting me in this way.






Monday 9 December 2013

Bright day

I am so enjoying working on this series of small paintings. they are pretty abstract, employing lots of my favourite shapes, colours and textures.

I have been listening to Ruby and the Vines, since I met lead singer Binnie at the weekend...beautiful vocalist, maybe it's put me in the mood for bright intense colours.

A Few Of My Favourite Colours
30x30cm
acrylic on canvas


Summer Colour II
30x30cm
acrylic on canvas


Summer Colour
30x30cm
acrylic on canvas
sold



Friday 6 December 2013

Marshland

Marshland. I live quite close to the Romney Marshes, something about the atmosphere there draws me. Great colours and skies too. This smallish painting is 40x40cm, titled 'Marshland'

Marshland
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas

Advent Calendar

I am part of Artfinder's Advent Calendar! Since eating my first (two!) mince pies I am feeling quite festive, maybe I need to invest in a Christmas jumper as well....





Monday 2 December 2013

Green painting

I am working on this commissioned 90x90cm painting at the moment. I realise that I use more green, blue and white paint that any other colours....England is a green and rainy place!


Sold! via Saatchi Online

Summer Colour
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas
sold

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Saatchi Online Best of 2013

A very big thank-you to Saatchi Online for featuring one of my paintings in their Best of 2013 page. I am delighted! 'Early Morning' is the painting, see below.


Early morning
90x90cm
acrylic on canvas
sold

They have also added my 'Green and Blue Landscape' onto their Gifts for Green Thumbs feature.


Green and Blue Landscape
100x100xm
acrylic on canvas
£1,400

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Autumn Bank

maybe I need to get out in my garden and do some weeding and cutting back, I love the wonderful colours at the moment though. The sun filtering all those leaves and stalks is an arresting sight.

Autumn Bank
120x40cm
acrylic on canvas

Summer Colour

This painting is a companion piece to 'Piles of Autumn Leaves' which is pictured underneath. they are both 40x40cm. It is titled 'Summer Colour'.

Both these quite abstract paintings are experimenting with the idea of intense colour in small doses, surrounded by a sea of light. I have them hanging together at home at the moment, and i am enjoying looking at them.

Summer Colour
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas



Piles Of Autumn Leaves
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas


Monday 25 November 2013

Monday morning sun

I was able to deliver this commissioned painting personally over the weekend. I was intrigued to see where it will hang, I think it will suit the space well.

Commissioned painting
80x100cm
acrylic on canvas

Now I am getting on with some autumnal paintings in my studio. The sun is out, and my very thick jacket is getting an outing too....it's chilly!

Saturday 23 November 2013

Friday 22 November 2013

New paintings on a rainy Friday

Here are two quite different paintings I have been working on in the past few days.


Cold Bright Sky, Autumn Field
90x90cm
acrylic on canvas


Abstracted Land and Sky
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Piles of Autumn Leaves

In the spirit of my painting 'Conversation with my Garden' i am working on a series of smaller paintings. Here is one titled 'Piles of Autumn Leaves', it is 40x40cm.


Art on the London Underground

I am so pleased to be included in Artfinder's poster campaign on the London underground. For the next two weeks my painting 'Trees and Flowers' will be featured amongst others in 50 Underground stations.
Can't wait to take tube journey, and spot one!

Trees and Flowers
40x50cm
sold


Friday 15 November 2013

Moving on.

An intensive burst of activity on this painting...moving on from my post yesterday

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Thursday 14 November 2013

Re-work of my 'Early Morning' painting

Early Morning
90x90cm
acrylic on canvas
£1,100

Sold! via Saatchi Online

Early Morning, Early October
40x60cm
acrylic on canvas
sold

Beginning

The first few layers on a canvas are always exciting, I am never certain what may grow from the start of a painting. Not having an end point is liberation, but trouble too!

Blue Dusk (this could change)
90x65cm
acrylic on canvas

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Me and my big painting

This is me, standing with my latest painting, 150x150cm...nearly finished.....



Sunny Wednesday

I have had the most stunning walk through my local forest today, beautiful leaves of many hues.

I have also had a great day on Saatchi Online, as they have sold five of my paintings. I am so grateful...and a bit overwhelmed! Her are the paintings in question...as they get couriered to their new homes, I'd better get packing.

 Blue and Green Summer
30x30cm
acrylic on canvas


Trees and Flowers
40x50cm
acrylic on canvas


Midsummer
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas


Spring Pinks
90x30cm
acrylic on canvas


Spring Pinks II
90x30cm
acrylic on canvas

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Three new paintings

Midsummer
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas
£335


Midsummer II
40x40cm
acrylic on canvas
£335

 
Purple Painting
60x60cm
acrylic on canvas
£575

Friday 8 November 2013

Sold! via Artfinder

Autumn Pink
30x30cm
acrylic on canvas
£295


Wednesday 6 November 2013

Saatchi Online

Than-you Saatchi Online for featuring two of my paintings in their curated collections this week.
Firstly 'Blue Horizon' in their New This Week page, and secondly 'Early Morning, Early October' in the Originals Under $1000 page.


Blue Horizon
110x110cm
acrylic on canvas


Early Morning, Early October

60x40cm
acrylic on canvas