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…
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.
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.
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…
This is the Last of my trio of thistle paintings I have done for my exhibition. .
My studio is now ready to face the Chichester Art trail and I have unwrapped those works I want to show but there are still paintings stacked randomly about the house. Note the lovely new shelves in my studio, a birthday gift from my lovely husband.
Number 3 of my thistle paintings, stage 1. It’s great to work on several painting together one can get a real creative flow going, stopping and starting can be so counter productive.
Yesterday I posted the first stage of the number 1 of a triplet of paintings inspired by thistles. I have 2 in progress now, here is progress on the first and stage one of the second,
I have been so busy with finishing commissions and doing things related to Cloudhopper Gallery that I have not been in the Park much lately but when I did get there on a sunny Saturday in March I snapped these runners, part of a weekly run which takes place there.
I decided to abandon the last painting I posted on my blog and covered it with blue tinted primer to be reborn as something else. It will form part of a trio of works inspired by a patch of thistles in Hotham Park.Here is the first stage of one of them.
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