Remnants of summer
The rose garden in Hotham Park is at its best in June but here summer is having its last hurrah even if its already Autumn. Something to remember in the long winter months to come. …
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‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…’
Yesterday I went into the park to meet someone and with the intention of doing some drawing but as I forget to take my pencils, ( senior moment). I had to content myself with looking and snapping. I took a fresh shot of the teasels I showed in the last post. I had a lovely ciabatta…
Wild things
Late Summer and early Autunm brings out a tangle of seed heads in the wild areas of the parK which I find hard to resist. I take reference photos but I like to draw too as this keeps the memory much more powerfully than if I just snapped the shot. Others may not be able…
Getting back into the Park.
Today was so sunny that I decided to venture into the Park to do some sketching. I was delighted to see this wonderful wildflower meadow.
New water feature.
Last year this area was a dry pond except during the awful storms during the first half of 2014. The water drained away through holes in the membrane and left a desert. Now to my delight, a new smaller pond and gravel garden has been created in the area.
Back to Hotham Park.
Over the last two years and especially this last few months, much of my time has been dedicated to helping to run a small gallery in Bognor Regis. I am still artist for Hotham Park which is what this blog is really about. The little gallery is now closed, which is sad but the upside…
Getting it together for my exhibition tomorrow.
Woke early and failed to get back to sleep so up at 5 am, went into my studio to paint the edges of my paintings and two hours later I had still not finished. There are always so many hidden things to get done before a show, things which people viewing will not notice or…
Thistles number 3
This is the Last of my trio of thistle paintings I have done for my exhibition. .
Two down, one in the pipe line.
Yesterday I worked all day on my three thistle paintings here is the second one, done in time for my little Exhibition next week.
Getting back to the real work.
After the art trail, time to start painting again. Today I worked on three paintings all still with a lot to do. Two of them were part of the thistle series I’m doing.
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