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Saying it with flowers, “Happy Easter”.😁 I

Saying it with flowers, “Happy Easter”.😁 I meant for this to be a bit looser than it turned out, but I can always rely on a supply of dandelions to if I want to paint more!

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I’m painting some dandelions against a backgroun

I’m painting some dandelions against a background of local Westmorland slate, so it seemed appropriate to use my old tube of @wallace_seymour Honister Pass Green Slate. Nice texture to it too👌

Too sunny to be inside all day, so did some pond cleaning & found some baby newts (on swipe- they went straight back in the pond ). Apparently juvenile newts are called “efts” once they’ve absorbed their gills & can leave the water.🌼☀️🌼

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Hope everyone gets a little sunshine this weekend!

Hope everyone gets a little sunshine this weekend! 😎Little oil study of Moss rose ‘William Lobb’ from @david_austin_roses . This rose dates back to 1855, has a strong fragrance and fades beautifully from deep magenta through to shades of purple.

Started this little (6”x6”) oil study today- rose from bouquet via @sainsburys - it’s going to be some time before the garden yields any roses!

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Started this little (6”x6”) oil study today- r

Started this little (6”x6”) oil study today- rose from bouquet via @sainsburys - it’s going to be some time before the garden yields any roses!

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More yellow...daffodils on the easel today, (oil o

More yellow...daffodils on the easel today, (oil on panel). I might tone some of the green in the petals down tomorrow-think I’ll sleep on it! 🤔 I was going to start painting some dandelions today, but I only have 4 flowers fully open in the garden as yet! Quite looking forward to the dandelion clocks tbh🙂
I made some pretty evil smelling garlic drench at the weekend in an attempt to keep the deer off the precious things of the garden (don’t stand upwind of it when spraying!😬). It’s supposed to protect against the likes of slugs and lily beetles too, we’ll see!

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#wip I’m painting Coltsfoot today, an edible pla

#wip I’m painting Coltsfoot today, an edible plant/herb/weed. Its flowers come out before its leaves appear, and it’s reputed to be one of the best herbs for soothing the respiratory system, making a good cough syrup. The flowers are similar to dandelions but smaller -
I might be painting dandelions after I’ve finished this one, seem to have plenty of them!😳

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Happy Vernal Equinox! On the day that my neighbou

Happy Vernal Equinox! On the day that my neighbour found some frogspawn at the top of a tree (see my stories!) it seems a good time to come out of hibernation and post something, I managed to get a better photo of this painting than the last one I posted (i.e. the colours are truer).

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Got some way to go on this #wip but it’s taking

Got some way to go on this #wip but it’s taking shape now. Sorry for the rubbish photo but wet oil paint not playing ball.😬 (I have a few things on the go, all resisting being photographed.🙄)
Snowdrops are still in flower up in the North at least, but I did see a primrose peeping up, and the native daffodils are starting to flower too. Evidence that Spring is springing despite the freezing temperatures! Hope you’re keeping warm & cosy.🕯

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Here’s the top of Meredith Frampton’s ‘Portr

Here’s the top of Meredith Frampton’s ‘Portrait of a Young Woman’ (1935) which was decapitated in my last post!😳The subject is artist’s model Margaret Austin-Jones, I think she was 23 here. Frampton’s mother, the artist Christabel Cockerell, made the model’s dress from a Vogue pattern. Frampton routinely spent a year on a single painting, and he is often compared to artistic giants such as Ingres, Vermeer and Van Dyck (also the surrealist Magritte). He stopped painting in his 50s when he felt his eyesight was no longer sharp enough for him to achieve the detail he required.

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I thought I would share these works by British art

I thought I would share these works by British artist Meredith Frampton (1894-1984). He was wildly popular between the 1st & 2nd world wars but fell out of fashion and was virtually ignored by the establishment until his retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1982. His technique is immaculate, but it’s the stillness that draws me to his work. The portraits are so enigmatic, icy yet not clinical, and often surreal (in the general, if not artistic, sense). I like his portrayal of elegance, sophistication, cool composure and order (things I lack!) and the way he used light to sculpt his subjects, rendering them iconic.

I find the first image, ‘A Game of Patience’ (1937) particularly intriguing. Is the Wiltshire landscape significant, and are the apples, corn and poppies merely echoing this, or are they comments on perceived femininity? Does she want to eat the apple or to tempt with it? Who does the King of Spades signify- is he a protector or a threat-and which card does she hold in her hand? Who is just out of frame...? For me, it’s these psychological undercurrents that elevate his work from the merely realistic and make them maddeningly haunting - hope you enjoy!💙

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Changing my still life subject today (these snowdr

Changing my still life subject today (these snowdrops are defo ‘still dead’ at this point!). This is my super-pro current still life set up. 😂 Seriously, though, I love these goose-necked lights, clamps etc., they make allsorts possible!😊

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#wip Not-so-still-life: I made the mistake of sta

#wip Not-so-still-life: I made the mistake of starting to paint these snowdrops late in the day- when I came back to them the next day they’d perked up so much I had to wipe the paint off & start again! Since I’ve had the stove lit they’ve already gone past their best. 🤦‍♀️

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It was postitively tropical here yesterday (well t

It was postitively tropical here yesterday (well the ice had melted) so I cleared the mini ponds. Living in pretty much a woodland glade means that ponds and gutters fill up with leaves very quickly & frequently over winter. I did apologise to the wildlife for the disturbance but I think they’ll find it more of a des res now!

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Surprised to see work by a female artist on the co

Surprised to see work by a female artist on the cover of Vol 1 of Rothenstein’s ‘Modern English Painters’ (originally pub. 1952). I’d not heard of Ethel Walker (1861-1951) before, though apparently her work is hung in the Tate and also at my local art gallery, Abbot Hall in Kendal (swipe to last pic).
In her mature work she “aimed at the creation of forms which were delicately shimmering and evocative, rather than descriptive; and...at an art not based directly on observation but upon observation frankly transformed by a poetic imagination.” She sounded a real character, I’m so enjoying this collection of insightful writings (which I bought for the chapter on Harold Gilman)!

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More finishing off #wip projects- a Snowy Owl (lik

More finishing off #wip projects- a Snowy Owl (like Harry Potter’s Hedwig). Apparently Snowy Owls hunt mainly in the daytime, but I thought it becoming in moonlight😂 ( I met this owl locally before lockdown!)

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Happy Valentine’s Day or Happy Sunday if you don

Happy Valentine’s Day or Happy Sunday if you don’t care!
Yesterday I spent some time cataloguing all my paints- some are very old, some I’d forgotten I had/ what was in them.... Makes sense to know the colour index numbers which tell you which actual pigment is in there, before buying more paints that sound oh-so-attractive. It helps, but the same pigment can yield very different hues, and there’s the wizardry of the manufacturing process too, so different makes with the same pigment numbers doesn’t mean identical colour. Anyway, all this stopped me from buying more yellows...I bought a couple of purples that were new to me instead! 🤦‍♀️ Great materials and service from James at #thesupremepaintcompany - thoughtful blog on the website too.👍

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How did it get to Friday?! #wip -experimenting tod

How did it get to Friday?! #wip -experimenting today, playing with colour. Waiting for my Sennelier Chinese orange to arrive, so using an Indian Yellow (red shade) & a cadmium orange (on swipe).

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Treated myself to some @sennelier1887 paints from

“Portrait of a Lady in Blue”, 1916-a beautiful

“Portrait of a Lady in Blue”, 1916-a beautiful inspiration, &
another of British artist Harold Gilman’s. On swipe, the colour version of “Mrs Mounter at the Breakfast table” (which I meant to put on the last post!

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This painting, ‘Mrs. Mounter at the Breakfast Ta

This painting, ‘Mrs. Mounter at the Breakfast Table’, (1917) by British artist Harold Gilman, made a big impression on me when I was still at school. Gilman was a founder member of the Camden Town Group & of the London Group. I particularly liked how he used colour rather than shadow to create form (his lights & darks are quite close together). Dismayed to read he died in the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1919, aged 43.

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