I sat with you, wild singing river of the valley, and felt the deep wonder of your presence and mine in this flowing place. I made watercolour drawings and took photos, then created this piece in my studio, as a song of love and gratitude for such an encounter in Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall.
My first oil painting of the year. To flow with the purity of Nature is what I wish for all.
Summer kisses us with warmth and shows us the fertile future Nature prepares for us over and over. I love the translucent touch of watercolour to convey life’s fine veils of self-renewal everywhere around us.
Inspired by my recent week on St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly comes this glorious thrust, drip and tumble of oils on canvas! Zoom in close and you’ll find more surprises than I could have imagined. When paint and painter dance the dance of art and heart anything can happen…
These are one of the biggest surprises to me here on St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly. Elegant giants watching over small rectangular flower fields and crowning coastal headlands..
This little painting, 60 x 60 cm, is taking shape from drawings I made in a hidden grove near Zennor, Cornwall, tucked away from almost everything yet connected by the elements to all that is ..
I was led by a restless longing for remoteness and a return to nature with my art materials.. Here in a hidden valley behind Zennor on the wild North Cornish Coast, I find a cottage hunkered down among last year’s broken bracken stalks where honeysuckle tendrils can let their tiny new leaves lick the tender air.. I am so happy to be drawing in nature again.
My beloved studio – fit for action after a New Year cleanse! It can get quite built up and chaotic when I am working on a large painting or making studies of plant forms as I was during the Autumn and Winter .. This Spring I shall be teaching here again as well as making my own work and so it was time for a tidy up. I love my studio.
