Brand new range of prints

So excited by how good my new range of prints looks that I’ve literally just spread them all out over my sofa to see them together… professional presentation – not!  Beautiful prints? Yes please 🙂 Just arrived today and only a very few copies of each.  Get them on my shop page before they sellContinue reading “Brand new range of prints”

From all endings come new beginnings…

A few weeks ago I posted about the turn of the seasons. Our latest lockdown (still in place) had just started, with restrictions on socialising indoors as well as the closure of cafés and bars. Compounding this was the looming end of British summertime, when the clocks fall back by an hour, ushering in longContinue reading “From all endings come new beginnings…”

Trumpet fanfare!!

Finally it’s here! The VIRTUAL PANDEMIC EXHIBITION of 2020 by the Pastel Society of Ireland. It’s been a challenging year. Across the whole world we are agreed on that. Its been full of tears and fears and loss and loneliness. But it’s also shown us unexpected joys and love and new friendships and hopes. ThroughoutContinue reading “Trumpet fanfare!!”

All good things to those who wait…

Now I know you’ve all been looking forward to the exhibition of 2020 with baited breath: And with good reason because I’ve seen some of the work and it is exquisite. But like they say, the best things in life are worth waiting for and so the exhibition is going to be fashionably late, withContinue reading “All good things to those who wait…”

Countdown to…

…. the 2020 ‘Virtual Pandemic’ Exhibition by the Pastel Society of Ireland. This is one of the events that I’ve been working towards and I’ve got three paintings included in this really diverse exhibition. The exhibition will open on Saturday 7th November and will be avaliable to view and buy a range of original artContinue reading “Countdown to…”

“The present is the point at which time touches eternity”

The quote is from CS Lewis and I guess it bears no correlation at all to the image, except both make me pause and reflect. That’s my dog in the photograph, racing the beach and living his best life. He turned 11 yesterday and I know that our time together is limited, but this imageContinue reading ““The present is the point at which time touches eternity””

Where the sky meets the sea.

Is there anything in life more joyous than a border collie on a beach? This beach (Murlough Beach, near Dundrum in Northern Ireland), where the mountains of Mourne (in the far right) sweep down to the sea, is my happy place. And seemingly also my dog Patches’ happy place. Today we’ve walked the shore andContinue reading “Where the sky meets the sea.”