One small blip on the horizon today, the outer fringes of Storm Barras will be flying through with strong winds and some heavy rain. He early decision was made, today I would work inside the shop, however the flimsy signs went out weighed down by the Art for fun plank and the flag supported by …
Yesterday I posted about the build up to Christmas and my opening hours up to Christmas Day. That’s obviously, hopefully, a Saturday that the shop remains closed. I became an artist just coming up to five years ago, although I wouldn’t accept the term “artist” at the time as I didn’t feel I qualified. I …
So now we are clearly in the run up to Christmas in the UK, Christmas fairs, Santa out in his sleigh in Malay towns and cities, decs are up. If you don’t celebrate Christmas for a variety of reasons I am sure you are bearing with this as usual. I have a series of 9 …
So it’s the day of the local Christmas fair in town. Woke early and no good morning Swanage pics from hope as it was still dark. In town around 8 am. So I went round to the shop and got set up inc art for fun space in case Nothing got going really until 10. …
Home internet crashed pre blog and then mini hub issues and then hotspot also not helping…technology…
Not intended as a replacement for an autumn tree series but based on some autumnal leaves changing colour – prints, cards and the original go on sale from tomorrow.
Since I started as an artist back in 2017 starting to see if my work would sell I didn’t even consider that people would have the confidence to ask me to draw a work on commission. This idea was turned upside down early on as I was asked for some extra designs for the local …
For five years now Anne has wanted to go to National Trust Kingston Lacey near Wimborne, finally today we did to celebrate Anne’s birthday. We got great weather, cloudy but mild and less breezy than recently. This is where we started our visit at the cafe before exploring the gardens. They were setting up for …
Today we went out for a walk, I took several pictures that involved noticing my surroundings and which might inspire pieces in the future. Will the fisherman was drawn previously and expressed an interest in the original postcard but by the time he came back it had sold, there may need to be a piece …
Morning included visit to the 2021 Artisans on the beach catching up with old friends etc and chatting to some of the new hutters as well. Back for lunch and this afternoon a Panto rehearsal which was mainly costume fitting. Then I walked back through town, ended up in the seafront and hen home to …