So sorry for neglecting Bluesky. I’m busy preparing for a solo show at Broadway Contemporary Art. Here are some offerings!

Just a little corner of a recent painting.

Pigeons!

I’ve been blown off course a bit this week with lots of admin, a book cover rough and a commission rough, not to mention mounting 76 prints for the Scillies. This means the summer teasels have had to be patient. Nearly there now - here’s a little corner away from the last section I showed you.

Summer teazles are very pretty before they go all brown and spiky. I do like that incarnation too, except when they’re turned into miniature hedgehogs with googly eyes and little hats, which is an affront to all teazles.

I've just finished this 60x60cm painting of our (almost) daily walk . At the moment there's waist high cow parsley that must be wriggled through to emerge into the field. This was early evening, and that's Stratford-upon-Avon in the distance. It's always nice, even in the rain.

Part of the start of something new. A familiar view for us, as it features in our (almost) daily walk.

Hopefully this painting should be arriving in Portscatho today, at @theharbourgallery.bsky.social It’s the well trodden footpath that links the village with Porthcurnick beach. Can’t wait to be there again soon. 😁

This painting of #portisaac will also be heading to a new home from the exhibition at Padstow Gallery.

I hope you’re all enjoying a lovely sunny day. Jobs in the garden for us, before the family arrive. Anyway - this was the first painting of mine to find a new owner from the exhibition at Padstow Gallery. 😁

The joint exhibition has begun at Padstow Gallery. Every day 10.39-5 until May 5.

Something big and bold for the upcoming exhibition at Padstow Gallery. I'll be setting off very early on Thursday to deliver my paintings, then it's over to Liz to hang them all while I slope off to go for a pasty. She wouldn't want me getting in the way now, would she?

This is part of a painting I started on Thursday. I’ve always loved this farm, glimpsed from the M40 not far from Oxford services. The different parts on the farm look as if they’ve grown like branches over time and I love the angles of the roofs.

Padstow Gallery exhibition April 18 - May 5

Old Town, St Mary’s - a favourite spot on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. Harold Wilson is buried in a very simple grave in the churchyard off to the right, so he must have liked it too. Thank you to Tamarisk Gallery for selling this little painting yesterday.

I saw my first (very few) woodland bluebells yesterday. I love this time of year when the blackthorn blossom is rampant and there are primroses too, then the all the bluebells are still to come. Smashing. 😁

'The New Hawaiian Shorts' (a brave and bold statement piece for one's wardrobe) has set off to a new home, with thanks to Montpellier Gallery.

Here's another painting that'll be in the exhibition at Padstow Gallery starting on Good Friday. Happy memories of an early spring walk to Daymer Bay #daymerbay #camelestuary #RockCornwall @bsky.art

Busy, busy @bsky.art #scillies

What a lovely day! Lots to do, but I sneaked out into the garden for some random snipping with my secateurs. Here’s a similarly lovely day in Portscatho. Beyond the poppies on the left is a gelato place. Mango, please. 😁 @theharbourgallery.bsky.social #portscatho #poppies #roselandpeninsula

I spy with my little eye that this painting has set off from @theharbourgallery.bsky.social Thanks, team! @bsky.art

Anyone in Cornwall at Easter? The Spring Exhibition at Padstow Gallery is kicking off on Good Friday and the artists will be in attendance on the first day, trying to keep away from the fizz so they can chat to visitors in a sensible manner. Cough.

I’ve been finishing off the painting I started at Saturday’s demo. Nearly there! #art #painting #acrylicpainting #ukart #fineart

Workshop day today! Teaching some collage techniques to thirteen artists from Stratford-upon-Avon Art Society. #art #painting #acrylicpainting #ukart #fineart

These were my Mother’s Day tulips from my daughters a couple of years ago. Thanks, Philly and Julia. Xx #art #painting #acrylicpainting #ukart #fineart

A lovely bit of stone masonry spotted at St Dogmaels Abbey this week. Zoom in to see an angel with a fine set of wings. The abbey and monastery had shrunk to just 8 monks when Henry Vlll forced its closure in 1536. I loved this determined survivor.

I’ve been searching my photo library for calming paintings - this’ll do the trick! It’s Derwentwater in the English Lake District.

Thank you Padstow Gallery for sending this painting of #portisaac off to a new home last week. 😁

Less than a week to go until booking opens for Broadway Arts Festival in June. I’m taking part at ArtBeat (no booking required and free to visit) as well as doing a day long floral workshop and an evening talk about how to survive as an artist. Busy busy! Hope to see you at some stage. 😁

Something very twiggy from five years ago. I love twigs, particularly just now with their brave green buds gathering themselves for action.

Three Port Isaac paintings in a neat row at Padstow Gallery #padstow

I'm finding it hard to believe this was eight years ago. Somebody very kindly named it 'Quiet Tide' when I ran out of ideas for a title. 😁

More prints heading off to The Mulberry Tree Gallery. Not many of these left (excuse the blurry mess.) 😬

Just a small section of something for the Padstow Gallery exhibition at Easter.

Time for something yellow and blue.

How nice to hear that ‘Lilies in the Old White Jug’ has left Montpellier gallery. The jug in question is indeed old and is sitting on my kitchen dresser waiting for some more flowers.

‘Portscatho Daisies’ and ‘Roseland Favourites’ prints set off recently. @theharbourgallery.bsky.social has a good selection on their website and they are printed to order by Raven in Kenilworth before being lovingly wrapped and dispatched by me. 😁

One of the many good things about doing an art fair is getting instant feedback on your work. (NB this is only a good thing if it’s NICE feedback. Don’t ask about my Windsor experience.) These were the most popular greeting cards which I happen to know as I ran out by Sunday lunchtime. 😁

Today @bathartfair my snowdrops left the premises and my little Bath paintings were very popular. At home the huuuge parakeet painting was sent off to a new home by Montpellier gallery. 😁 Now full of paella and chocolate and lying on my bed like a beached whale after the tense rugby. 😱

And in other news I’ve set up at the Bath Art Fair and the PV is done and dusted. Now sitting in bed drinking peppermint tea and eating chocolate. 😁

This one left Montpellier gallery today..

Thanks to The Harbour Gallery for dispatching this one. I was on Porthcurnick beach last week devouring nice things from The Hidden Hut. Would you like to see? Dahl, in case you were wondering.

Snowdrops seem to be everywhere so I just had to paint some. This will be coming to Bath Art Fair with me NEXT WEEK. Sorry to shout but I’ve just sort of realised. I mean I did know, but I didn’t know properly. But I do now. Over and out. #bathartfair2025 #bathartfair

Foreground finished. Just a small section as it’s for an upcoming exhibition so is under wraps until then.

Dear me. Lunch time and I’m in an unholy mess.

I’m busy painting for a group exhibition at Padstow Gallery at Easter, so here’s a little snippet of something I’m tucking away until then.

We’re heading up the M5 after a sunny morning at Port Isaac. Thank you Cornwall - you were fabulous! I’m bored in the passenger seat and browsing art memories. Here’s one from 8 years ago.

Loved-up blackbirds now at Montpellier Gallery. Spot the two pink blossom hearts.. 🩷🩷

Part of something on the easel that's given me very dirty hands, but I've had a lovely day.

Another new painting heading to @theharbourgallery.bsky.social at the end of the week.