Wishing you a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!
and a Happy New Year!
Saturday 17 December 2022
Friday 25 November 2022
Glastonbury Frost Fayre 2022
Looking forward to the Frost Fayre tomorrow with a range of handmade Christmas cards and Christmas decorations, prints and small gifts, crochet homewares and original artworks.
Cards for all occasions.
Sheep Happens! Prints and frames.
Handmade Christmas decorations, keyrings and small gifts.
Original art
Crochet homeware.
Tuesday 1 November 2022
Ripplestone Review ~ Fiction: Seasonal Treat! Free Books!
Ripplestone Review ~ Fiction: Seasonal Treat! Free Books!: A reminder that a couple of my Kindle Unlimited eBooks on Amazon are free to download from today for five days! The promotion runs from 1/1...
Monday 26 September 2022
Autumn treats in my Etsy Shop now
With these pretty flower motifs, you can brighten up a hat, bag or coat on a cold day.
Set of three crochet flowers.
Set of three crochet flowers.
A misty view for a mellow Autumn, you can theme your desk for the season with this mouse mat featuring one of my photos of Glastonbury Tor.
These matching pink crochet trinket bowls have a wipe clean lining, great for your dressing table to keep all your beauty secrets to hand.
To find out more click on the photos or follow this link:
Thursday 15 September 2022
God Rest our Diamond Queen
During this time of national mourning, I thought I would put up some links to the Royal Family and Government websites. There is a link on the Royal Family website to an online book of condolence. On the Church of England website, you can light a virtual candle.
On Sunday 18th September there will be a national minute of silence at 8pm.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Welcome to the Church of England's official website | The Church of England
Monday 15 August 2022
New for August in my Etsy Shop
Finally some rain and cooler air today after the baking heat of the weekend! Looking forward to the cooler days and warm colours of Autumn and Winter with some new products in my Etsy shop.
As the cost of living rises, I've tried to keep my prices as low as possible for original, one-off items and paintings so it's easy to refresh a room scheme, find a handmade gift or top your Christmas decorations.
A pair of mini-cushion Christmas decorations with silvery deer.
Matching crochet pots in heather tones with daisy print cotton lining.
Small framed oil painting with moonlit Tor, Red Tree Dancing.
Friday 22 July 2022
My Summer Art Exhibition
I thought I would post some of this year's art in a little online exhibition on Blogger. You can follow the progress of these and other pieces on my Instagram account
Contact me for more information on these or other pieces of work on Facebook, Instagram or via my Etsy shop.
For a larger view of the image click on the picture. Please note, none of these are available as NFTs.
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Glastonbury Tor and fields.
Shadows, frost, mist and sunshine.
Last year's leaves, this year's light.
Mixed media - Watercolour, collage and thread.
Shadows, frost, mist and sunshine.
Last year's leaves, this year's light.
Mixed media - Watercolour, collage and thread.
Burrow Mump with Spring Blossom
Watercolour and pencil on traditionally made linen/cotton paper.
Watercolour and pencil on traditionally made linen/cotton paper.
Studies from a life drawing session with Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club.
The Little Hornbeam Tree
I have been growing this little hornbeam tree for years. It has never been wired and only occasionally pruned and has grown to its shape by the passage of our lives (kids footballs, basketballs, chewing pets, parties, storms, snow, heatwaves...) It has become a garden friend and each Spring I look forward to the point that the leaf buds break.
I thought I'd try painting/sketching it this year: the shadows, branch shapes and moss feel like a landscape I know well.
I have been growing this little hornbeam tree for years. It has never been wired and only occasionally pruned and has grown to its shape by the passage of our lives (kids footballs, basketballs, chewing pets, parties, storms, snow, heatwaves...) It has become a garden friend and each Spring I look forward to the point that the leaf buds break.
I thought I'd try painting/sketching it this year: the shadows, branch shapes and moss feel like a landscape I know well.
Watercolour on linen rag paper
Letting our lives fall
Moments windblown
Petals on the lawn
Based on a landscape poem from last year, this watercolour is inspired
by the gardens at Hestercombe.
Moments windblown
Petals on the lawn
Based on a landscape poem from last year, this watercolour is inspired
by the gardens at Hestercombe.
Mixed media piece based on Wells cathedral and including a poem of mine called The Window.
Watercolour, ink and thread. (A4 unframed)
Batik Trees
With this watercolour I've used repeating blocks of abstract colour,
a bit like the process of batik, to echo the repetition of the trees and build up
the image. Based on a view at Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset.
With this watercolour I've used repeating blocks of abstract colour,
a bit like the process of batik, to echo the repetition of the trees and build up
the image. Based on a view at Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset.
Similar in style to Red Tree, Red Tree Dancing features a person walking through a moonlit landscape with Glastonbury Tor in the distance.
(Oil on board 7x5" not including frame)
Tree Cathedral
Chestnut Avenue, Glastonbury
Chestnut Avenue, Glastonbury
During the pandemic there was a feeling of isolation; we were all apart and separate in our own spaces. I wanted to capture some of that feeling in this painting. As the figures wander outside, the open space becomes an indoor space, as meditative and sacred as the indoor spaces we no longer visit.
(oil on board 11 x 13" including frame.)
(oil on board 11 x 13" including frame.)
Tuesday 28 June 2022
New for Summer in my Etsy Shop: Birds, butterflies and bright colours.
Click on the photos for more information and to go direct to my Etsy Shop.
Wool crochet panel cushion cover
Swallow fabric cards
Crochet wool trinket pot
Watercolour paintings
Tuesday 14 June 2022
Ripplestone Review ~ Fiction: Serendipity Dispatch: Seven Short Science Fiction ...
Ripplestone Review ~ Fiction: Serendipity Dispatch: Seven Short Science Fiction ...: I'm delighted to announce a new selection of three short and four flash fiction sci-fi stories about love, loss and life in the future...
Monday 16 May 2022
New In my Etsy Shop...
Some new items available in my Etsy shop now: boho style mug mats, hand painted cards, pretty lined trinket pots for dressing table or desk, malas and more... click on the photo or my shop logo for more information.
Set of six crochet coasters and matching holder.
Crochet trinket pots in cotton and linen.
Handmade malas
Hand painted cards
Friday 29 April 2022
In the garden today...
This was meant to be a post about what is flowering now in the garden but I was completely side-tracked by birdwatching...
Bluetits hunting for insects...
Jackdaws feeding. One bird drops the seed to the others waiting below.
Sometimes it feels like it isn't me doing the watching!
(sparrow, jackdaw, blackbird)
(sparrow, jackdaw, blackbird)
Sunday 13 March 2022
Sunday 27 February 2022
Signs of Spring in the Garden
A few days of bright, sunny weather has allowed the ground to dry out enough to mow. Lovely to see some signs of Spring emerging, bulbs, buds, heathers and herbs all beginning to grow away. A chance to finish clearing up sticks and branches from the storms last week, luckily no major damage.
Some Spring colour, heather and miniature daffs.
Rhubarb starting to emerge!
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