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Peonies 1

What an exhausting but wonderful weekend at Childwickbury. Lots of familiar faces and lovely new people to meet. One of my lovely bloggees turned up with these gorgeous redcurrants to paint. She also very kindly offered me supper and a bed….how kind people are!

Sold from the easel. Redcurrants in freezer!

Sold from the easel. Redcurrants in freezer!

Sadly, I had to get back home to my Grand Prix B&B guests. Never let the grass grow! Another brought me this lovely frame to see that he’d made for one of my paintings that he owns. So clever! We’re going to get some more made so let me know if you’d like one. They are designed so that the painting “floats” inside the frame…..funky!
Floating frame

Floating frame

I Also caught up with lovely Rosemary of Rosemary & co who was selling her amazing brushes and we swapped art for brushes which was wonderful….best brushes in the world! I’ll show those to you tomorrow. Here are some peonies for you perusal. It’s nice to be home but am packing to fly back to Pakistan……all a bit mad at the moment. Catch you later.
1606 peonies 1

8″x8″ Oil on gessoboard-SOLD

Redcurrants on a plate

8''x8'', oil on gessoboard - SOLD

Redcurrants seem to have done well this year even if nothing much else has.  I seem to be really busy catching up since being away last week and have a long to-do list.  The concrete base for my new studio was poured yesterday which is an exciting stage.  It was immediately requisitioned as a sun-deck and I came down this morning to find the sun-loungers on it!!  I may have a fight on my hands if I want any walls to this studio.  Perhaps when autumn approaches I’ll be allowed some.

 

Redcurrants on a shelf

8''x8'', oil on gessoboard

Well………….we’re back from Cumbria and the intrepid walkers made it to the top of Helvellyn.  Despite being drenched with rain and blasted by high winds on Striding Edge (glad I didn’t witness that!!) they reached the top in glorious sunshine.  Anyway, well done them.  Being left drinking tea at the bottom was fairly hairy too although they took some convincing of that.  So……… back to the drawing board and redcurrants today.

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Redcurrants on a dish

A reworking of a previous painting.  I thought the reds would cheer us all up after a typically foul bank-holiday weekend.  Of course it won’t have gone unnoticed that redcurrants aren’t out yet so, either I’m a time-traveller or I did this a while back.

8''x8'', oil on gessoboard, SOLD

I’ll leave it to your imagination.  I have been painting, I just wanted to use this one today.