Phew! All done for now.

Yesterday, I helped hang my work at the Angela Mellor Gallery in Ely near Cambridge.  I think it looks good.  I do feel as if I have been a little like a hamster in the proverbial wheel this last couple of years, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
 

All I have to do now is price up all my prints, of which there are rather a lot.  They are a culmination of three years work, with little time to get them all wrapped up.  It is really fun to look back at all the different prints and techniques employed.  I am really rather fond of some of them, especially the ones where I managed to register three plates with different colours on one print!

I was so happy to hear that two of my pieces at the Albuquerque Museum miniature exhibition have already sold and one from my gallery in Boston, Newbury Fine Arts, so finally things are starting to move again.  I have also sent the two small paintings below to the 'On a small scale' Christmas exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh.

On the road to Peebles 15 x 21 cm Oil

Snow above Lindsaylands 15 x 21 cm Oil

This weekend is my birthday and I have treated myself to a two workshop with Katherine Jones at Rabley Drawing Centre .  I have never quite managed to experiment with collagraph and block printing, so I am very excited.  I am sure there will be photos!

Then the following weekend I will be at the Angela Mellor Gallery to celebrate, so if you are near Ely on the 5th December, do pop in!

Until next time....

Exhibition - Edinburgh

I knew this would happen... we are finally closing on my Aunt's bungalow on Friday and guess what, Barry and I are driving up to Scotland with all my exhibition pieces on the Saturday! It's going to be a crazy week full of packing and finalising bits and bobs for my show.

So here is my invitation and one of my new pieces for the show.....but that's all for now folks!!

Pond Life box - photopolymer prints from original drawings, with pond insect etchings, oil painting on lid. 

Absence

So sorry everyone.... indeed if anyone has missed me!  Life has been really overwhelming this last few months.  Ohhhh, the roller coaster joys of trying to sell a property and all within a short timeframe has been so stressful and at times I have definitely wanted to run away to some beautiful island and live in a tent!  I am still going through it, waiting to see if the latest buyer comes through... the viewings, the surveys, the valuations, back and forth.. arghh!   It is not something anyone wants to go through at the best of times, but when you are 92 years old  (not me, my Aunt, although, I have to say I feel 92 on some days!), it is not an easy task.  

In between all this, I have been cooking, caring, painting, printmaking and gardening and consequently my blog has gone by the wayside.  I don't get out much either, so no beautiful British landscapes to show you.  Thank goodness for Cambridge School of Art.  (Anglia Ruskin University) I continue to print in their print room as I supervise one evening a week.  It is a life saver for sure.  Plus I have been and continue to do some print workshops at the Archaeology and Anthropology Museum in Cambridge with my printmaking friend, Lizzie (Bertie) Smith.  Oh, yes, I also got an interesting etching commission for a dung beetle which I sent to Singapore.

I am at the moment getting ready for a very important print exhibition in Edinburgh as a consequence of showing my cabinet at the Scottish Society of Artists annual exhibition last November.  Thank you Scottish Society of Artists!   I am thrilled and excited to have been offered a chance to exhibit my work at The Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh on 27th June. Thanks to Cambridge School of Art Print room for making it possible for me to prepare for this exhibition.

Pond Petals ii - Graphite

Pond Petals i - Graphite

Summer Clouds 5 x 7 in oil panel

Stow Cum Quy - 6 x 12 in - oil panel 

Well, I did manage to make a trip to Scotland, so here is Badger on the hill up in the Southern Uplands, just outside of Biggar.