Cows off to Dartmouth

Four new cow canvasses are off to Baxter's Gallery in Dartmouth on Friday 8th July.

Delamore Cows

These cows have gone to Delamore Arts:

Primrose:Poppy

and Erica

Cows get a new look

The cows have got bored of their plain backgrounds and have asked for a more exciting environment to live in. Not wanting to offend, I have tried my best and come up with Gustav Klimt meets Jackson Pollock in a liquidizer....anyway it seems to work for someone as it has already sold!!

Just working on the three for Delamore arts - very messy business this painting- my lovely new linoleum floor will never be the same again!

Exhibition News

Three cows will be going to Delamore Arts Exhibition at Cornwood in Devon for the whole of May 2011. The exhibition is in aid of St Lukes Hospice in Plymouth and is taking place in the stunning Delamore estate on the edge of Dartmoor.

Wonderful cows

Just been up to Shropshire for the weekend to celebrate 40th birthdays - went to Attingham Park. AMAZING cows - Belted Galloways and Longhorns. Obviously very used to people as they barely flinched when we took photos of them. Hoping to do some large paintings of them in the new year.

It's dogs and sheep on canvas too!

Well, the kids are back at school and my days are my own again. Although, I'm sure 9am til 3.30 pm is shorter than it used to be. I've hardly got time to gossip at the school gates and eat chocolate without children wanting some, let alone pick up a paintbrush, before it's time to go back again.

So, this academic year I seem to have started the year with labradors and sheep. I am painting the paintings that I have promised people over the years and never had time to do. But all that cow painting has stood me in good stead as it seems that labrador fur is not that dissimilar to cow and I am hoping that sheep wool is similar to a curly faced bull.

Then it will be back to painting the cows -some are currently on show at the King's Arms Charlton Horethorne, Baxters Gallery, Dartmouth and the Cottage gallery in Wedmore.

I've got to go and find some Dorset Longhorns down near Dorchester, some Highlands up on the Mendips and some Holsteins up on the hills near Sherborne. I've got some new walking boots so there is nothing to stop me now.....

Dorset Art Weeks - 11 days away

Oh my goodness. Studio still not quite finished. Still need stairs to get in to it from outside. I phoned the stair man today and he promises it will be ready in time. I hope he is right! Otherwise I may have to have the exhibition in the garden!

I have been sent wonderful photos of some cows in France by my card printer that I am painting at the moment. They are ginger, like me, and very grumpy looking (hopefully not like me).

There are so many cute calves around at the moment that I am desperate to paint.... if only there were more hours in the day...