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It never rains but it pours…
Tree, Starlight What’s the positive expression of that? It’s always ‘disasters come in threes’. Things do cluster, it’s true, but the good things as well as the bad. I happen to have a lot of things on...
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Election Special at Wolf at the Door 2015
Election Special! A brief lull after the month-long hurly-burly which is Brighton&Hove’s mammoth Artists’ Open House. Time to draw breath, take a critical look at things and update this blog and...
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Artists’ Open House continues
Wolf at the Door, 2015 My last post may have been misleading. Two more weeks to go of Artists’ Open House. It’s been busy; on the first (long) weekend we had more than 700 visitors. Work is selling...
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Last weekend of Open House
A fresh hang with new work for Artists’ Open House This year’s Open House has been great: just a few of us, more space, more peaceful, easier to see the work. People seem to be loving it, and we have...
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Has your work an afterlife?
‘Show of Hands’ at Clare and Mark’s A recent painting in its new home! What was it like to be one of the Impressionists in the early days? Hardly anyone wanted to buy your outlandish work; sometimes...
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Magna Carta. Night Sky, June 15th 1215
Night Sky June 15th, 1215 By some complete oversight I forgot to post on here about my painting of the Night Sky, June 15th 1215. This what you’d have seen – roughly speaking – if you’d looked...
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Papermaking with the cat.
Making paper in the sunI I’ve just found a piece I wrote for my Open Studio explaining how I go about making my work. I realised that although I post images of new work on here, and exhibitions I’m...
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Ironing is Pants! An art project with a difference.
Ironing is Pants! This has been a really bitty summer. Lots of interesting things, lots of chores, a few disappointments, lots of obligations, a few mishaps, some fascinating new scenes and places....
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Fun art project no. 2: Brighton Tea-Gown and Brighton Gin
Brighton Gin prize:The World is upside down. One of these ‘calls for art’ that hit the spot! Hizze Fletcher at Brush in Brighton, hair salon and art gallery, had the idea of organising an exhibition...
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Telling Tales and The Battle of Hastings.
Sussex after the Conquest Last weekend the Battle of Hastings, 1066, was re-enacted in the lovely small town of Battle. At the same time the Battle Festival (click on the link ) is on – with some...
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Christmas is coming…fast
Warm colours, abstract patterns Our brief Wolf at the Door pop-up has come and gone. One weekend of gales and driving rain through which a good number of friends, neighbours and past visitors and...
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Waste (not), patterns, Christmas, and art buyers.
A detail from ‘Waste Not’, recently completed This seems like a suitable image for Christmas! a) the colours are festive, b) it’s just been bought from me as a Christmas present, and c) this is the...
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Happy Christmas – with art from my past!
Beach-huts in the snow (sold, Affordable Art Fair): mixed media on reclaimed cedar block) A quick post before I sign off for Christmas. Such a build-up, always, and a big risk of anti-climax. That’s...
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New art, new collaborations, new ventures
At this time of year I get caught in a conflict. There’s the urge to hibernate. Bio-rhythms are low; I want to relax and switch off and consolidate. That’s probably the primitive brain at work. And...
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So where am I at? Projects, plans and night skies.
Well, my studio is still a shambles. So what’s new? Nothing, but I sort of feel I can’t work in there till I’ve tidied it up. (Though as soon as it’s tidy I’ll create another mess.)...
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Artists’ Open House looms: painting, tidying, organising….
Trees at Speed (pair) A artist’s life is nothing if not varied. Since I last posted here I’ve painted a surfboard for charity; I’ve submitted a design for a Raymond-Briggs-inspired Snowdog for...
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Night Skies, bright days and art galore
Jill’s work in the sitting-room The Brighton and Hove Artists’ Open House is in full swing and The Wolf at the Door has been welcoming visitors. There’s far more of my own work on display than usual...
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Selling art: stories, discoveries and coincidences.
The Wolf at the Door The five weeks of Artists’ Open House have come and gone. Warm thanks to everyone who visited us. Some people came several times! Being realists, we do put this down not just to...
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Art and Gardens, travel and catch-up.
Jill’s botanical paintings at ‘Art and Gardens’ July 2016 Where has the time gone? More than a month has gone since the last post. Such a busy month. Taking down and returning art and sculpture...
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Vote for Murmurations: my painting is in a national art Public Vote
Murmuration, Before the Storm An unusually quick update. I realise I hadn’t even uploaded this new painting to my website gallery although it’s visible hanging in the sitting-room on the header...
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