Happenings at Farleigh

Botanical Abstract prints

“It’s funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Can you tell I’m happy with the new frames courtesy of Roundstone Framing, at Hilperton Marsh?

I think the happy face says it all.

I know Mike spent ages on making these look so good and I think it shows.

Thank you so much to Mike and Jan at Roundstone Framing. You have done them proud! :)

These are off to the Karina Goodman Gallery in Matlock, Derbyshire. I can’t wait to see what they look like on her walls.

Jul

Print summer

Most of the first part of 2014 (and the end of 2013) has been spent working in the print workshop. My main love has been lino-cutting. The carving, quick inking up and results are so good for the way I like to work. The result? Well, I’ll let you be the judge.

Most designs have been made into cards ad are available to buy directly from me at £ 2 each (with a further £ 2 to cover packing and postage if you select one of the packs at the bottom of the web page).

Nov

Before the chill

Waking to the sun shining down the hall way to my bedroom, I went into the woods before breakfast, wanting to catch the sun low in the sky. Many of the top leaves have fallen from the trees but the lower sections still look a little 'late summer', and the air was warm.

Tilly, our younger dog was up for an early morning run but her mother, Tess, is elderly and stayed in the garden.

Jun

Ancient sites

This last month has been an interesting one with visits to a few local places including Avebury, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge and meeting one or two interesting antiquarian folk topped off with a week in Cornwall where there were even more stones.

The late start to the season seems to have made the landscape all the more green.

(I am not sure whether the skies are more blue or whether we are unused to the sight, but this year's colour seem all the brighter).

Feb

View from the bridge

The sun is out on this beautiful Friday morning and with a list of rather nice things to be getting on with; I still find myself sitting at the kitchen table avoiding them.

The list being collect fishing money - AKA walk round the lake; go to town for ingredients for birthday cake; make said birthday cake; make bed up for homecoming son and daughter; have a glass of wine. I know what you're thinking; wine is not needed and is possibly a bad thing.

Nov

Sun spill

Sun spill, a photo by Bella 44 on Flickr.

This has proven to be one of my most popular paintings ever. I use Flickr as a gauge (with only 11 comments), but have found this throughout the web with poetry, posted as inspiration and it has been re-blogged endlessly. An obvious winner; I am having it threaded so it will be available as prints and cards.