As anyone who has followed this blog will know I rarely - if ever paint any kind of realism. Well I've been inspired on my walks to Zongor where I usually take loads of photos to paint my own version of realism. It's from one of my photos and I wanted to show the beauty of the place. there are a lot of saltpans there which I've long had a fascination for.

this is aprox 70 x50 cm and is available

This is a older painting, done in the days when I liked to use a lot of texture. I also used to collect shiny things - rather like a magpie on my walks. so this has a lot of re-purposed bits and bobs. I've resurrected it as it seems to fit perfectly with my previous post

Hi and welcome to whoever is reading this. I hope you've all recovered from the festivities. I finished what will probably be the last painting - well at least on canvas, for this year. It's another in the white, gold and charcoal series.

40 by 40cm on deep edged canvas and at the moment available .Lots of faces and creatures to be seen, I'm hoping that you the viewer will weave a story around it. If so I'd love you to let me know.

The wintry sunlight lays the most beautiful highlights and shadows. Here's one of my paintings being lit up by the soft light

I could feel winter in the air last night - well it had to come sometime  So I created this fun little digi using hot colours to warm me. Don't worry we also have a heater in the house  ,

I'm a bit peeved at the mo., the painting below which I had just finished after several evenings work, is no more. It had taken probably 10 hours of work and after I decided it was finished sprayed it to fix the charcoal and drifted off into an unremarkable daydream whilst spraying - when I came back to earth I had sprayed way too much and now the charcoal was in a puddle grrrgh - I left it to dry and then tried going over the lines again but the spread of the fixative meant that many of the lines had bled into the canvas and just could not be saved. Ah well that'll teach me to pay attention

So I've done something that I rarely do - I've entered a competition: https://www.facebook.com/Wraptious/posts/2134185066643940

Here are my entries:

Please consider voting if you like them. Thanks a lot

Above is one of selection of pillows that are available from:https://fineartamerica.com/featured/wcs-4-c-laf-art.html?product=throw-pillow

The images were originally some of my watercolours which I then altered slightly. The material is of good quality and goes happily into the washing machine.

Today I actually left my house for the first time since finishing Radiotherapy nearly 4 weeeks ago. Yay, its been a gorgeous day, perfect weather for walking. Coming back I decided to be a good girl and have a studio cleanup. I found this half finished painting with it's face turned to the wall, got the brushes out and finished it.It's been a good day so far.

It's a 60 by 90cms acrylic on deep edged canvas.

And sometimes I like to paint amid the chaos on my studio floor.:)

Well it's a dull and rainy day here today - but it's winter so what the hell do I expect haha. Anyway I've had the inks out today - and the last of my lovely Yupo papers - must re-order.

Here's one 20 by 30cms, ships rolled in a tube - easy peasy, so if you like it just msg me :)

Morning all and what a gorgeous autumn day it is - the sun is shining and I'm still in flipflops :)

Because I'm in such a good mood this painting that I'm about to post is in yellow and not only that cos I'm feeling happy it comes with a hefty discount.

The original price is 1700 euro for this 60 by 90 cm acrylics on deep edged canvas but I'm happy to let it go for750 euro. This is through Saatchi Art . It rolls in a tube for convenience and cost. Although if you'd like to have it delivered in a crate then please contact me.

Either way don't be shy , just drop me a msg via the contact form on here, facebook or Instagram at laf.abstracts. Hope you're having a good one