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!
I finished it! It’s big – as big as my desk would allow and it’s for the exhibition at The Calder Gallery when it fully restored and dried out following the floods.
This is a very warm picture because the back of the Bridge Lanes houses are always bathed in sunlight.
I will be uploading more of the new work soon, and will post the dates for the exhibition as soon as I know.
I found that I was often being asked, so I decided to produce this range of 5, blank greetings cards:
I’m really please with how they turned out! You can currently buy them from Radiance in Hebden Bridge, and at Dean Clough Design Shop, Halifax. You can also buy them from here – just email me! I will be setting up a shop, but I keep getting distracted by painting and other such treasures.
Following the spectaularly damp weekend in Hebden Bridge I thought I would post this painting. It is a commission I have just completed for some people who live above Midgely. And the sketches I took were on a beautifully sunny day. Remember those?
It’s a big one! Now I need to get it across to Knight Graphics for printing and proofing.
Yesterday was my birthday and Hattie did me this wonderful card. It’s me, in my studio, complete with child peering around the door.
I am taking part in Hebden Bridge Open Studios this year, on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July. I am going to turn a room downstairs into a gallery (with lots of lanterns in the hearth), and tidy the studio upstairs for anyone who wants to see it. It’s rather chaotic at the moment! I am venue 67. It’s marked wrong on the map in the Open Studios bruchure, and is actually very close to the town centre – just a couple of doors away from the Snug gallery (which is full of beautiful things).
Dean Clough, Halifax, now have my lanterns on sale in their Design Shop. And my framed prints now cover the walls of Their Viaduct Cafe!
I am so late with this!
The Saltaire Arts Trail weekend was so busy. Thank you to everyone who came by and said hello. When that was all over I went straight into my next project. I will come to that…
My lanterns, on their first weekend out, went down very well at 19 Titus Street, even though the lovely house in which I exhibited lacked a dark and dingy corner to show them at their best. My very clever friend Sarah Mason took some of these photos – the best ones are hers!
I didn’t get much chance to wander around the other houses. I did manage to look at George Street where Hannah Nunn was selling her beautiful lamps. I also found the work of Helen Hallows. Like me, she’s a textile designer turned artist and she too uses a lot of stitching and pattern in her work. Do have a look. It’s lovely work. 
Daniel bought the children over one afternoon and they had a ball! I love this photo. This was Daisy’s first ever go and painting. I still have to wash her coat. My knees were also enhanced with poster paint.
Tomorrow, early, I am heading to Saltaire to set up my display. My lanterns – my first sample run of them – are all ready.
I’ve spent this evening making paper bunting for part of the display…
I’ve been a busy girl, and there’s lots of work on display. I hope to get some visitors! I am at 19 Titus Street which is open 10am til 5pm, May 5th, 6th, 7th. I will be there tomorrow morning, and all day Monday if anyone wants to come and say hello!
