hello again....

a brief post
today i'm off on my travels
a bit of winter sunshine before a new year of exciting opportunities and new places
i have taken the plunge and signed the lease on a wonderful new....very big...studio
more about that in the new year
in the meantime a happy holiday to everyone and look forward to seeing you here in the new year

ps spending sometime here...mmmm....i know...but someones got to do it!

credit risk or market risk?

lying in bed this morning i was wondering how i feel about painting sunny spring and autumn meadows on a gray stormy day.

the answer is i feel happy! in my studio i have the wood stove going, my music playing, often incense burning and usually an offering made. i think about my favourite meadows and i am transported there.

unusually today someone was sitting in my comfy chair beside the wood stove asking me to listen to their explanation of the difference between credit risk and market risk. all that and the dog being sick this morning means it has been rather a trying day.

but somehow magically and momentarily i did feel as if i was sitting here in one of my favourite meadows in the mid summer sun shine.

i wish my daughter would listen to me about being an actress, it would save us both a lot of stress if we didn't have to fill out investment banking job application forms.

pink birds and butterly wings

the pink birds have flown and very happy they look in their new home
the golden meadows, silver birches and dancing orchards have all found new homes....thank you to everyone who made the AAF in Battersea so successful for me x

as i just wrote to the lovely keeper of the Pink Birds:

5 years ago i took the leap of faith to go full time painting .... i always knew it was the right decision for me...although difficult at times...now i feel so joyous and grateful and privileged to live where i live and have the life i have (well most of the time)

to celebrate i bought a ring......it looks like butterflies wings........i have never wanted to wear rings before but this year i gave up biting my nails

i’m not sure if it’s amethyst or fluorite but either is fine
amethyst is a stone of spirituality and contentment and fluorite is used to bring order to chaos....according to my book


actually looking around the house and studio i rather hope its fluorite

well back to work...lots to do in the next few days as more shows coming up and i have very very few paintings left

living in the forest

through every window i see the forest....and it sees me
the house faces east and west...its in a valley that runs north to south...
how different that is...
how aware of the day passing i am...from the early first light that i see bringing the forest in front of the house alive as i make my tea...tea to be drunk in bed with the forest in front of me...then down to the table where i sit at the computer....more tea as the sun reaches the deck and the still beautiful meadow....
the stargazer becomes the sun worshiper

it was a perfect time...

possibly makes sense if you listen to this...but not as often as i have i hope...

it was a perfect time,
i'm glad i spent it with you

part of a series...secret gardens.....sketches really but i dont seem to be able to sketch anything less than a metre square these days...probably destined to only be seen here on summerland

seeing the skyline

on friday i delivered painting to derbyshire....it was wonderful to see the skyline and the open spaces so different to the forest

walking through wild grasses

wild grasses is the title of the painting in the previous post...shamelessly lifted from Robyn's comment which i neglected to acknowledge, sorry about that...

anyway a keen eyed reader has spotted a fairy princess walking in the meadow, not that i believe in such things of course...