Here is my newest painting. It’s of the Square chapel in Halifax, with the spire of the Square Church behind it.
It’s a really beautiful part of the town. The piece hall is just behind these two buildings. I have many ideas for paintings that include the Piece Hall!
This piece is going to be part of my solo exhibition at Heart, previewing on March 28th.
Just a quick post. I need to do some new prints for Steven at Harrison Lord Gallery, but I wanted to post this image of my newly finished painting of Stoodley Pike.
It’s a large landscape inspired by a boxing day walk with my family. Hattie loves Stoodley Pike – she thinks it’s a magical place. I painted it at her request.
This one is headed to Heart gallery at the end of March. But I’m quite enjoying it my studio in the meantime…
I’ve been playing with old print trays recently. When I was little my Mum had lots of these trays in her antique shop in Suffolk and my sister and I were allowed one each in which to store our treasures. Mine was full of shells and pebbles and fossils. I’ve been playing around with this idea of treasure
I prepared papers with layers of inks and loose pigment, and I cut them to the size of the sections. 
Each one shows a study for trees, leaves and tile designs. Some are stitched, some are gilded. Some are just going to remain a plain colour.
I keep on playing around and rearranging them so that the colours balance. But eventually I am going to have to commit and stick them down!
I have a idea of doing one full of bird studies too. I’ll see how this one goes together first… This is going to to go into the Tall Trees and Warm Stone exhibition at Heart at the end of March.
Back in November I began to exhibit with the wonderful Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge. The last two months with them have been brilliant and i am now proud to announce my first solo exhibition there.
The new body of work, entitled Tall Trees and Warm Stone, will be previewing on Thursday 28th March. There will be at least 12 new paintings and accompanying prints. I will be posting some images of the new work in the coming weeks.
Please come along for a glass of wine and a look!
The exhibition continues until the beginning of July.
in the meantime Heart have a frequently changing display of my work, and a browser of my hand finished prints.
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!
