My life is currently all about getting ready for the pub's first art fair next weekend - the Mad March Fair. If you aren't planning to come and could make it down, please consider it! Sussex is only an hour and a bit from London or Brighton on the train, and we'll have lovely foods, real ales and live folk music as well as arts and crafts by ( Read more... )

This painting was started late on Saturday night (or early on Sunday morning, depending on how you look at it) a couple of weekends ago. I was at Straylight, where I've been spending an increasing amount of time lately. Sitting in the lounge downstairs, listening to steerpikelet and gin-gerkitten play the songs they'd written - or half-listening while I painted, and only ( Read more... )

Three recently finished pieces which are now hanging in the Pembury:


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I have a whole bunch of new art to post! I've had a successful week, artwise, although it doesn't feel it, for some reason. I spent Tuesday evening having dinner at Straylight and finally getting round to play with ink with steerpikelet and cyrus_ii. Then Wednesday afternoon was spent painting with Simon, although sadly not for long enough as I was late arriving and ( Read more... )

Did this quick sketch yesterday to practise using the Chinese ink:


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Stef came round on Wednesday to stay up all night making a big painty mess, which is something I haven't done in far too long. I finally got the chance to play with the beautiful set of Chinese watercolour brushes which oxfordgirl and mejoff gave me the winter solstice before last, and which I've carefully carried with me ever since, but been too scared to start ( Read more... )

These paintings fell out of my head on the Sunday just before New Year's Eve, when I was hanging out at the House of Fun with Denny, Chris and Jay. I was in a strange, solitary, focussed mood, although I'd been grounded very effectively by a beautiful massage from J ( Read more... )

This is the first in a series of Goddess paintings. It was originally intended to be an icon for my altar, but it's not quite right - and nor is the second one, which is still unfinished - so I'm going to keep trying until I hit on what I'm looking for ( Read more... )

New painting! This one was super-easy to do. Much more impressionist than my normal style (and using altogether far less paint). It pleases me greatly.

I've also noticed that what with this, Snow Trail and the celtic knotwork paintings, I have enough for a set of four Yule greetings cards. Not particularly well-matched greetings cards, to be fair ( Read more... )

I never got the chance to write up the Happening Kristen and I did at Planet Angel in August. It was disappointing and successful in different ways. ( During the performance itself, it felt very strongly as if we were failing to achieve what we'd hoped. )