New handmade items available!

My Etsy shop is now open again with a range of handmade, individual gifts, paintings and cards.

(Click on images to go to shop.)

Yandles Summer Handmade Market this Saturday ~17th July 2021

 

Looking forward to my first craft fair at Yandles this Saturday, with a range of handmade cards, crochet gifts and watercolours.

June & July summer exhibition

 I am delighted to be exhibiting watercolours, oils and small collages at the Creative Studio Art Gallery, Great Bow Wharf, Bow Street, Langport, TA10 9PN this summer during June & July. There is a lovely selection of local artists across a range of mediums situated in a beautiful repurposed wharf building on the River Parrett. You can grab a bite to eat in the Kitchen and wander along the river paths as well.

Good Luck Tor, watercolour in a Fairtrade frame. (sold)

Paper collage of Kilve Beach, Somerset looking towards Exmoor.

Egret flypast and Swans at Ham Wall nature reserve, watercolours.

Two views of Burnham-on-Sea, paper collage. (sold)

Beach Moments at Charmouth, Dorset.

Mosaic on watercolour paper handmade in Somerset.

Winter Walk near Glastonbury Tor

White Horse, Kilve Beach, Somerset (oils on board).

Spring arrives with Pasque Flowers & Pots of Seeds

The sudden spell in warm, dry weather has meant lots of growth in the garden and a chance to get out and get on with a bit of weeding and tidying up after such a long lockdown winter.

These Pasque Flowers are a lovely welcome sight for Easter.

The fierce frosts destroyed this old pot but the pansies it held survived, clearing up the pieces, I found this makers stamp with its pretty little flower motive intact.

Peacock butterflies have been emerging in the sudden heat this week, I guess from hibernation, a delightful distraction.

Indoors, pots of seedlings are taking over the windowsills, this week the heat beginning to make them too leggy! I've quite a few 'free plants' outside this year as well, as self seeders start to emerge, feverfew, love-in-a-mist, ox-eye daisies and strawberry plants and the warm temperatures have also meant the chance for a bit of sketching in the garden!

Wishing you Happy Easter.

New Art Exhibition (August 2019)

Found

by

Patricia Herlihy

1st August to 7th August 2019
10.00am - 4.00pm

in residence in the almshouses at

Magdalene Almshouses

Behind 38 Magdalene Street
Glastonbury, Somerset



Works in watercolour, oils and mixed media. A selection of handmade cards.

Art Trail in Street, Somerset (week two)

There is still time to catch the Art Trail in Street, running until the 18th May 2019. With large scale installations at the Grange and in the Shopping Village, plus residencies in several venues around the town.

This week Emma Housley is the artist in residence at Strode Theatre, where you can see her at work creating her beautiful contemporary abstacts full of colour and form. The workshop is open from 11am-4pm.  More information and details are on the Strode Theatre website.

Debs Butterfield is in residence at The Shoe Museum on the High Street Street on Thursday 16th and Saturday 18th May making her unique organic vegan shoes. 

Ron Webster will be in the foyer of the Strode Theatre on 15th -17th May from 11.00am demonstrating his amazing marquetry and parquetry skills and there is an evening of poetry, Looking Out: with Kim Ridgeon on Friday 17th May, also at Strode Theatre, details on the website.

Sculpture by Jan Niedojadlo 

Sculpture by Anthony Butterfield 

In the Crispin Hall, High Street you will find artwork on display by Steve Cobbin.

An example of one of trail boards to find while out and about in the town.

Art Trail in Street, Somerset.

With a couple of hours of spare sunshine this afternoon, I set off to explore part of the new Art Trail in Street, Somerset which runs for the next two weeks in venues around the town.

In all there are ten trail boards to find featuring local artists and their work and the first location is in the beautiful setting of a Georgian house.  In the grounds of the building are works by Garry Sharp, large, dynamic sculptures built from re-purposed roadside litter and textural patterns worked into the grass.

Exploring these installations in the garden led me to a WILDEDGES by Melanie Thompson, an immersive art experience in a hidden walled orchard where I wandered through the blossom trees and then up into the nearby barn for a video installation with views out across the town and countryside beyond.

The house itself is host to a vibrant collection of local artists work, housed in two airy and peaceful rooms, connected by and sweeping up a grand staircase.

Upstairs I found Jules Meriano in residence, an artist who works in beading and mixed-media to create bespoke pieces of jewellery, headdresses and accessories. Trained in colour and crystal therapy her unique and gorgeous pieces are tailored to the individual to create personal works of art. Jules is in residence on Saturday 11^th and 18^th of May 2019.

Details of the #ARTTRAILINSTREET is on Facebook -

 www.facebook.com/ARTTRAILINSTREET/

The art trail runs from 4th to 18th May 2019.

The venue visited today was the Alfred Gillet Trust, The Grange, Street BA16 0BB.
(Accessed via car park 4)

https://alfredgilletttrust.org/whats-on

New Art Exhibition, Street, Somerset

I'm delighted to be exhibiting at Create:Space II in the pop-up galleryin the Old Tesco Building, Street.

Come along and see a great range of local art on exhibition and for sale at
Unit 6, Crispin Centre, Street, BA16 0HP.

The Staging Post runs from 25th March to 4th May 2019.

Glastonbury Tor and Orchard Trees, watercolour 2019

Street Christmas Cracker ~ December 1st.

On December 1st it will be the annual Christmas Cracker on the High Street in  Street, Somerset.

I'm delighted to be exhibiting at the pop-up gallery in the Old Tesco Building again.
Come along and see the great range of local art on exhibition and for sale at
Unit 6, Crispin Centre, Street, BA16 0HP.

Exhibition runs 11-am - 4pm, Monday to Saturday, through till December 15th 2018.

'Gulp'

framed watercolours &

hand painted cards and fridge magnets

and handmade christmas cards

St. Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury. Watercolour & pen.
(Framed size 22 x 28cm)

Summer Ran Dry...

Don't forget to upload your Big Butterfly Count results by the end of August, there is still time to take part, the count runs until the 12th of August. More details on YouTube here ~ Big Butterfly Count

Please take part in this year's RSPB Swift survey ~ details here. They are on the amber list and numbers are plummeting in the UK.


Too hot to garden and ground baked solid, so here's some photos instead from when the summer ran dry...

french beans

painted lady

red admiral

painted lady

carrots

'lawn'

Ewok?

onions drying

long-tailed tit

long-tailed tits in tree canopy

Waiting for Sunshine...

After such a hot early Bank Holiday, this May is all about trying to get on top of the weeds and seedlings. Planters now have onions, carrots, climbing french beans and strawberries. New fences are settling in, still some building work to be completed later in the summer. If last year was all about cutting back, clearing, repairing and reclaiming space and light in the garden; this year is the year of organising and planning...

forget-me-knot & geum

Cranesbill

Aquilegia

climbing rose & willow trellis

Herb Robert,

Hosta and lavender leaves

Box hedge knitting together

(note to self ~ pheasant eye Narcissus need forget-me-knot to grow through next year!)

Osteospermum and ground nettle

Scabious

Damage to irises from slugs and snails

Green border

top of the wall plants