The assault on Stoodley Pike begins…

After a three week Christmas extravaganza (my family do like to string it out – I think I had 3 Christmas dinners (all with their own leftovers)) I am back in my studio today with many good intentions for the year ahead!

There has been quite a lot of ‘Art’ happening over Christmas. ‘Papie?’ is the twins new best thing to do on a wet day.

And let’s face it. There have been a lot of wet days…

Daisy gets through a lot of paper. Robin gets through a lot of paint.

For the first time since I moved here, I walked up to Stoodley Pike on Boxing day. I was less than keen on the pitch black walk up the steps inside, but when I got to the top, I met someone I knew. How very Hebden!

I am planning a painting for my Spring solo exhibition at Heart. I am incredibly excited about the exhibition. The colours of my new paintings are going to brighten up the dull days of January and Febuary. I bought some new tubes of paint while I was away over Christmas. A beautiful tube of red to counteract this ‘bottom of the pond green’ that fills the valley now the trees are all bare…

 

 

 

 

 

As I was gallivanting down in London with Hattie at the weekend (6th Birthday treat) and not at the opening of Heart Gallery’s wonderful Christmas exhibition, I am going to be in the gallery this Sunday (November 11th) for the first of their Meet the Maker series. I shall be there from 2 til 4. And if people come I will get to drink lots of tea apparently; and I really like tea…

I have a big wall of work, some originals and some prints, to see. So please pop in and say hello!

Next Sunday, November 4th, Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge launches it’s Christmas exhibition…

I am delighted that they have given me a big wall to fill for the occasion! I am exhibiting 4 new original paintings, some framed prints, and a browser of prints. Here is a sneak preview of the new ones… There is more information about these pictures in the gallery.

There are many beautiful things on show there. Hebden Bridge has many wonderful and unique shops, and this is surely one of the best.

Please come along and find me at Heart!

 

 

It’s been a funny old week, the upshot of which is a change of plan. My new body of work (to be collected from the framers in the morning) will be a Spring Solo exhibition at the lovely Heart Gallery on Market Street, in Spring 2013.

I will be taking part in Hearts Christmas exhibition, which starts 4th November. I will post more about that soon. I am very proud to say that Heart Gallery will be representing me in Hebden Bridge from now on!

At last I have a date for the Calder Gallery’s grand reopening for the beginning of November.

After 4 months closed due to flood damage the Calder Gallery is reopening, with the preview of my solo exhibition on the evening of 2nd November, from 6 – 8pm. Please come along!

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I’ve just finished this painting

It’s a view from Royd Terrace looking across to Birchcliffe – always in the sunshine. I like the way the glass building reflects the sky in the middle of the painting.

This will be in the exhibition at the Calder Gallery, for which I STILL don’t have a date! Though the builders always look very industrious as a pass…

It does still depend on the progress of the builders, but it looks like my postponed solo exhibition at The Calder Gallery in Hebden Bridge should be back on for the end of October. Here are a couple of the new paintings:

Click on the images for the full picture.

They are taken from the back of my house. We have a shady courtyard, but over the walls are the sunlight houses up on Birchcliffe. They don’t have titles yet. I’d be grateful for any suggestions!

There’s a lovely thing happening in Hebden Bridge next Friday evening, at the new town hall. Many of the artists and makers who live here, and quite a few that don’t, but love the town, have donated beautiful things to be auctioned.

The auction is to raise funds for a series of events in the build up to the Christmas Season. The plan is to help breathe new life into the town and attract visitors back with the message that Hebden Bridge is very much alive and kicking and open for business. One of the many things I love about living here is this sense of community!

There are some lovely treasures in the auction. I’m going to bid on this lamp by Hannah Nunn

Because I walk past it in the window of Radiance every day, and I think it’s beautiful.

And maybe this, by jeweller Abby Filer

because I love it!

Really, perhaps I ought to sit on my hands…

I have donated a hand finished print of my favourite picture, Valley Gardens

So please come along (the time has yet to be confirmed, but I think it starts at 7pm). Bid on some treasures (perhaps find a bargain) and marvel at the wonderful town where I live!