COUNTRY ROAD

- Take me home to the place I belong...

Winter Light 14x10cm 

The BeeGees 

Beatrix Potter Lane 14 x10 cm

Oak Tree Lane 15 x 10 cm

Down In the Dell 13 x 10 cm

Peckforton Cheshire

JANUARY LIGHT

Manhattan Avenue Dusk- Palos Verdes in the distance

January has been very cold this year - in the morning we have seen temperatures in the low 30's with ice on the ground by the ocean! - This past week by mid day we have been experiencing 80 degrees - and it really is messing with my mind again - I keep forgetting it is still winter and there is snow on the ground in the UK! - I have gone through my whole wardrobe from ski jackets to shorts all in the space of a week.

The light has been tremendous at dusk - and I have tried in these 4 paintings to capture it. It can be very elusive and like fairy dust - but I think I have gone some way to show the magical few hours between dusk and darkness here on the coast.

Happy New Year to all who view this blog - I am really excited to carry on with my creative journey - thanks for checking in. I am working on the next set of small paintings to be blogged soon.....

Shadows-looking towards the Pacific.

Manhattan Avenue fading light

12th Place Evening Highland Ave

CHINATOWN - LA

 It was with much excitement my husband and I set out last Saturday night to see the Twitter Art Exhibit in downtown Los Angeles - about a 40 minute drive from our home on the coast. It was a particularly cold evening for LA.... And we were full of expectation. We arrived early - but were very kindly let into the gallery to have a look around before the 7pm selling frenzy. It was truly wonderful to see all the postcards, many of which I recognized from viewing on Twitter! I had too many favorites and knew that I had choices to make. My husband (who is also an artist) was very impressed with it all and very glad he came especially as glasses of wine began to flow!

 A wall of art!

 Here I am pointing at my 17 year old daughters postcard. Paintings began to disappear....

 I really should have taken that scarf off - but hey I was only thinking about the postcards at this point! My watercolor street scene is 2nd to the left of my head! I also had a painting of Big Sur on another wall.

 These are the 3 wonderful postcards my husband and I finally came to bring home. On the left a whimsical painting by @LisaGrahamArt, in the middle a portrait of AD by @LelandStruebig and to the right the postcard I really did have my eye on from the start by @dEEN1cKerson.

I just wanted to show you how Lisa and Dee had decorated the back of their cards - how  lovely they are? I will definitely do this next time - it makes for such a beautiful purchase!

 I was fortunate enough to see the painting above removed from the wall and given to the buyer! I was able to shake the buyers hand and introduce myself as the artist. It was a great experience to be able to  meet this very nice lady! - The painting below of Big Sur sold a little later in the evening - and I didn't see it picked off the wall! - I hope the buyer enjoyed the evening at Exhale Unlimited Gallery as much as we did! - Good Luck to Art Division and all the young people who truly deserve to have the best chance in their creative careers. And - thank you to @DavidSandumArt @natgeorgela and @ExhaleUnlimited.

CENTER PLACE

I was lucky enough to have my painting 'Center Place - Downtown Alley" chosen to hang in City Hall for a month or so. Afterwards this little painting will be crossing the pond to hang in a house in Cheshire (northern England).It has travelled around quite a bit!