New work.

Starting to panic now - I have an exhibition on the first of May!

I have so many paintings in my head, and not enough time to work on them!

 

 'She Walks in Grace'

Prints available in Etsy shop.

'The Love of a Wolf is a Splendid Thing'

Wild March

 No time for painting these last two weeks. Plenty of playing with ponies though.

Perry loves to be scratched!

 

And Will tolerates kisses :)

 

My sisters and I were snapped posing for Goddess portraits, but to be honest we look scarily like Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters.

And I've been drawn to the deer park recently.

 

And here is the sentinel,  guardian  of the valley. A stag's head of oak and granite. How magical is that?

Winter gives way to Spring

'Blodeuedd'

I've been laid low by illness for half of this month. It seems to have taken out most of the village. It did mean I had a little time for painting though!

 

'New Beginning'

9cm x 14cm

(For Sale in the Etsy shop)

 

The milder weather inspired me to create a couple more card designs - spring like, of course!

I particularly love the fox below :)

'Spring Song'

9cm x 14 cm

(For Sale in Etsy shop)

I should have prints and cards available of these in the next couple of days.

'Midwinter Fire'

A4 ink and watercolour

This painting has gone into Artisan, Chagford, to sell.

Winter paintings

This week I have walked in the Wild Wood.

 Peered over walls

and been inspired by this magical, mythical landscape in which I live.

 

More prosaically, the wolf has watched her boy climb trees - the one place she cannot join him.

 

I have begun work on a new piece - a song of Winter, forming slowly.

 

'Across Waye Hill'

ink and watercolour

And I have managed two other pieces this week. A quick landscape that you may recognise from last week's photos.

And this :

'The Moth Magician'

I love this one, and am reluctant to part with it. However, prints of her are now in my Etsy shop  :)

A new work begins.

And so the next project begins to unfold. Slowly, slowly. Fold being the operative word here - the rough sketches and collage for the first piece are enormous - over 6 foot long, and so I am constantly trying to fold and move large sheets of paper. The main sheet was sellotaped temporarily to the kitchen wall, so I could see the whole thing.

 

It's far too big for my kitchen table, sheets of paper and scribbles, concertinaed across the workspace.

The small rough painting is much easier to work with

And here are pages from my sketchbook, cut up and stuck together into another long strip, giving a 360 degree panoramic view of Greyweathers and the skyline behind.

This is how the Stone Circles project begins.

It will be stitched, and patched, and woven. Layer upon layer, age upon age. A project that is about healing, and anchoring, and mapping the bones of this land.