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Araucans & Cornish

6" x  8"

Oil on Linen Panel
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The title of this blog might raise a smile amongst those of a certain age who remember a Benny Hill sketch . . .

To accommodate this composition I worked on a slightly larger picture plane than I normally do for these blog pieces.I love the colour of the Araucan Eggs and they are fun to paint. In the interest of greater colour harmony have begun to limit my palette. For this piece I used only cerulean blue, cadmium yellow light, burnt sienna and white.

Hello Autumn

Comice & Plum

6" x  6"

Oil on Panel

Framed

£110

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No prizes for guessing what I am having for supper . . . 

Tea for Vilhelm

Tea for Vilhelm
6" x  6"
Oil on Panel
Framed 
£110
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. . . with envy.

Hot Stack

7" x  5.5"
Oil on Linen

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Green can be an awkward colour to work with. While I continue to dither with my entry into finally producing some landscape paintings I have been practising green colour mixing while using it in Still Life set ups it in an attempt to create a dramatic effect. The irony for me has been that the weather has been so hot and sunny this summer that the English countryside has most of the time taken on an appearance of anything but English . . . 

Something's Cooking

Chillies and Onions

Oil on Linen

7.5" x  5.5"

Framed

£110

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I live on vegetable curries so this is a familiar sight in my kitchen at this time of year. 

Lean on Me

Lean on Me

6" x 6"

Oil on Panel

Framed

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I am now four months into my vestibular rehabilitation therapy which is challenging but never the less working - I get more good days when I am able to work but I still need to lean on things . . . 

Tri Mug

Tri Mug

7" x 5"

Oil on Panel

Framed

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Orange Break

Orange Break
6" x 6"
Oil on Panel
Framed

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In the Heat of the Sun

In the Heat of the Sun

12"x 8"

Oil on Panel

Framed
£180

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What a summer! It has been like an oven in my studio . . . . time to get outside!

Going Solo

Daisy Single

7" x 5"

Oil on Panel

Framed

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Sometimes I think these daisies work well on their own . . . .

Mellow Yellow

Mellow Yellow

6"x 6"

Oil on Panel

SOLD

I am so delighted to be painting again after almost a year having been hampered by this wretched vertigo problem. I have been following a program of vestibular rehabilitation therapy which includes exercises twice daily designed to make patients dizzy or off balance and by so doing training the brain to compensate for the mixed messages it is being sent by the vestibular system. I do the exercises for about an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Its so time consuming I wonder that I have time for anything else. The exercises frequently leave me mentally exhausted as the brain is having to do much more work to keep me upright but 3 months in and I am seeing a real improvement.

I take very little for granted these days and really enjoy a day when I feel 'normal'. I guess you would say I have an attitude of gratitude.