A stand of hillside beech trees glowed in low evening sunlight, a precious fleeting moment on the first day of January. I took a photograph and today I drew from it, with sorrow and love; for some of those trees are now fallen and the hillside is changed. I am trying to remember to breathe into the beauty, the loss, and my trust.
Drawing in the dark by the light of the moon .. giving myself permission to play ..
.. of this new year was cool with moments of sunlight almost as warm as someone’s breath. I took my sketchbook for a walk and enjoyed this lovely old cottage by Polgoon Vineyard all stomped about in the foreground grass by the cattle whom Farmer Adèle had released on to the unseasonably generous grass.
It’s happening, last day today and I’m full of smiles from yesterday’s and this morning’s visitors. Can’t believe how many robin cards have flown out of here already! We’re open until 5pm today. Follow the signs up from A30 YHA/Polgoon lay-by and we’ll put a cup of warm spiced elderflower in your hand!
Come to the River Song Art House!
You are warmly invited to visit me, my husband George and our two friendly dogs, at our riverside home and my studio in the lovely Polgoon Valley just north of Penzance, on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November between the hours of 11 am and 5pm. You can expect to see recent artwork by me along with older artwork which I am now dramatically reducing in price in order to make it more affordable and to make space for the new. There will also be inexpensive drawings, prints and greetings cards – and spiced wine too! Please contact me directly via my website melaniepeer.com or Facebook Messenger for location details. Cheers!
The purity of our young has been captured by tech. Surely it is time to wake up from our collective trance and become present to the wondrous gift of life. (Watercolours on paper in a box frame.)
I’m excited to see what happens..
Three weeks after Solstice and a little further downstream I find this handsome river pool with a strong sense of the wild sea beyond and Cape Cornwall presiding over Porthledden Bay. I will take my drawings back to the studio and put brushes to canvas ..
