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Barnyard Chooks
I have always wanted to have chickens, known as chooks in Australia. My husband was not convinced, but after quite some time I finally talked him r... -
Flower Tree
"Flower Tree" ran as a live Guided Painting class in 2016. I offered two paintings that day, “ Flower Tree” and “ Enid”, a gorgeous violet elephant. It was the first time that I had offered a "double bill", you could choose one or the other. It proved to be a challenging afternoon -
Love and Blue
Love and Blue was the first live Guided Painting class I ran at The Art Train, so I will always be fond of it. The image originates in the whimsical practice of my early career. I used to draw little birds endlessly, they would be on branches, in trees, balancing on top of one another, in birdhouses. My early sketchbooks are filled with drawings of these little birds, which have so much character. The slightest change in the shape or position of a beak, eye, tail or wing can alter the personality radically. Little birds and leaves were imagery I used constantly in my embroidery work too. -
"Little Owl"
Little Owl ran as a live class in 2016. In 2016 owl imagery was popping up in homewares and stationery and it seemed like a timely image to use. It was a very popular class and everyone went home happy.
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"How Does your Garden Grow?"
This painting was inspired by the classic children's nursery rhyme, "Mary Mary". I loved this rhyme as a child, my mother was called Mary and I would wonder if she was Mary of the rhyme. She was always out in the garden so it seemed perfectly plausible. I also thought my Aunt was Princess Margaret, I had a colourful imagination or I was just easily confused. -
Hydrangeas : Guided Painting
"Hydrangeas: first ran in May 2014 and proved to be a massive learning curve for this fledging style of class. I have learnt so much since the early step by step classes and you get all the benefits of that knowledge. I have ironed out all the problems my " live" class encountered.
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Guided Painting on line
I rebranded my art teaching business The Art Train in 2019. This was a great opportunity to enable customers to book and pay online for classes an... -
Kid's Holiday Workshops : Famous artist themes
Before I had kids I taught at an art summer camp in Bermuda. Each day was themed with a country with lots of activities. There were also beach mornings, with swimming and coloured sand sculpture. Bermuda is so hot and humid and I was exhausted at the end of each day. But it was great fun. My daughter went along for a week of the same camp many years later. She had a ball. -
Kids Holiday Workshops: How I got started with Mosaic
I have been running workshops for kids during the school holidays since 2010. Each School holiday I run a series of all-day workshops which are themed with a famous artist or art movement. I was thinking back to when I first started and realised just how far I have come. -
Agapanthus : new downloadable Guided Painting Class
Agapanthus I have always loved agapanthus and blue is my favourite colour, I remind myself not to paint every image I make blue. As a child I loved... -
Custom Canine and Equine : the evolution of animal imagery in my practice
Custom Canine and Equine is a new body of work which I started in 2019.
I love dogs and I started to think about how they had often featured in my work. Then I had a look back at my old work and remembered that animals have been part of my practice virtually since the beginning. My BA thesis was about artists who used animal imagery, something I had completely forgotton about.
So here is the stroy of how I have used animal imagery throughut my career.
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Blue Jug , Downloadable Guided Painting, new for November
Blue Jug, Downloadable Guided Painting November 2019
I first painted this image in early 2018. I love blue and white and as a child had loved the Cornish ware pottery we had at home. Cornish ware is blue and white striped earthenware.
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