Visual painting inspiration...still flowers blooming!

Although it is now starting to get colder there are still some plants around that are flowering in my garden. These fellas are giving me great inspiration for my next paintings which I have just started.

...especially the colour, compostion and shapes. Yummm! Now just the dialogue with the paintings!
...have a great week!

Elizabeth Gilbert & Marie Forleo on Fear, Authenticity and Big Magic

This is very interesting for anyone that creates.

Autumn landscape

The colours that are around in the landscape at the moment  are getting my creative juices going. Isn't this just beautiful!All those earth colours. and that blanket of sky leading into the distance.... blue sky beyond? let's hope so!

Ai WeiWei exhibition at R.A. London.

Last week I went to see this interesting exhibition at the R.A.
 In the courtyard you were met by this piece.

Then inside..

This last image was a piece about an earthquake which had killed many including hundreds of children. Possibly due to cheap construction methods. So here WeiWei had the rods removed from the buildings and straightened. There was also a wall with the names and ages of those who had died. Very moving.

 All very thought provoking. I was also struck by the way Wei-Wei made use of specialist craftspeople, whose trades and knowledge are under threat in our modern society.

Great window display.

Last week I went to London and while walking around found this great window display. It was near Piccadilly. I now want to make sculptures out of cupcake packaging! weyhey!

My poppy painting in a magazine!

I have just been alerted by my son, to the fact that my painting is in the Goring Gap magazine behind Sarah, the gallery owner! It is  a shame the article is about the closing of the gallery, but my poppy painting is in full view.

This is part of a series of paintings I did of flowers. As women in the past were not allowed to paint anything but flowers, due to our delicate sensibilities, and it would teach us about nature, I thought it interesting to blow them up, so making the delicate flowers powerful.
I have also created a series of giglee prints of these, which are a little smaller than the 1.20m or 1m lengths of the originals!... so able to even fit on a cottage wall.(these are for sale through my etsy site).
have a great week...you never know when fame may strike!

Surprise visitor.

Yesterday when I went to the studio I found this little fellow in front of the door.

I carefully put him on a plastic tray without touching him and put him high up in a bush.

I am glad to see there are bats around but sad to see this one clearly not in top condition. He did bare his cute little teeth at me so there was some spark left in him. However he had a hole in his wing.

Alas today he was found dead on the lawn.