Amazingly the sun is shining for my first Open Studio weekend and the garden is behaving well. I am taking part in the Marlborough Open Studio event this weekend and next. Other artists will be open through all four July weekends but after next weekend I am off to take part in the very last Art in Action at Waterperry near Thame from 14th-17th July. Then the final week in...
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Peaceful Preci - a wonderful week in Umbria
A fun week with a lovely group in Umbria, high up in the Sibillini National park, with trips to Spello, the Piano Grande and Norcia, dinner at an Abbey and lots of excellent work. Maisie is fast becoming my star pupil with two excellent pieces so far this summer one in France and now this excellent flower study in Italy.Here is some of...
End of an Eventful Week at Manzac
Who said colouring in was boring. We have had thunder,lightening and floods with some of us having to hike through the dark to get back to our gites. We have visited 3 lively local markets, walked through the Grot du Mazul, climbed up through an incredible church building into the rock face at Vals and had some delicious meals and loads of laughs. May be not as much drawing as...
UKCPS Exhibition Best in Show
To my amazement this picture 0f Nectarines from my 'Larger thanLife' series has just won the Derwent Best In Show Award and the Rembrandt Lyra award for the Best Flower, Fruit and Vegetable picture at the 15th Annual UKCPS International Exhibition at the Menier Gallery, Southwark Street, London. If you are in London up until 14th May do go a visit...