Happy me. Had a great surprise this morning. Our lovely friend Steff popped round complete with easel. First one I've had for a very long time, can't stop smiling. Thanks Steff xx

This is a detail shot of the painting sitting on my new easel. It's 40x40cm (the painting not the easel haha) and is available

This is the series "Into The Green" that evolved form the previous wip (larger images in the acrylics gallery).

Also available individually. 25x30 cm.

I was like a kid with a birthday yesterday as thanks to my good friend Rach and the very prompt delivery of boesner I finally got my hands on my beloved acrylics again. Yay. (going into boesner in Hamburg Altona as an artist reminded me of going into a sweet shop as a kid - sensory overload)

So I went to work straight away, the top 2 pics are wips and the bottom is the finished painting.

The title is - Into the Green, it was inspired by all the amazing greenery that surrounds my new home town of Hamburg.

Somewhere along the way I decided to turn it around. Here's the result:

It's great to get my hands on palette knives again. I like it so much that I've started on another couple so it may turn into a series.

I painted both of these using shoe cream, you know the little tubes with the sponges on the end (well you would do if you ever clean your shoes :) ) They were fun to do.

Hi to anyone still visiting and thanks  Since I last posted I've been pretty busy. We decided to get the hell out of Dodge after all the problems and illness, and start again. First came the removal of paintings from the struts (thanks Andrew) for easier moving,



then we sorted, packed, gave away, and finally moved to Germany.


Bavarian beer in Hamburg - Andrew says sorry but he likes drinking it.

We are now living in a tiny apartment with no room to swing a cat nevermind a large canvas and for the first time in many years I have no studio, which is why I've been working small - pen and ink - watercolours or digi. I've also been taking loads of photos as I haven't seen this many trees for years.



I've always been a bit of a tree hugger and now I have so many to choose from :)

Pen and Ink

Digi

The complexity, textures and colours of the tree barks are a constant source of inspiration to me. We shall just have to see whether my new surroundings and the local colour will find their eventuell way onto the canvas. A very different landscape colour wise to the hot bright colours I've been used to for so long.

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