Wednesday 26 September 2012

Early spring in my garden

These are a few photos I made a week or so ago of my back garden as spring has finally decided to come after a severe winter.  I may add some more as flowers and leaves continue appearing. It is a somewhat rustic informal garden with no lawn and gravel paths but I love it.

By the way, I put some of my pastel paintings into the Artists Society's Spring Exhibition last weekend, and sold one - the shearing shed (see a recent post).  I'm adding the others into the Cranleigh Art Exhibition (supports the special school) on 19-21 October.  Finding space for storing framed paintings at home is a  problem.


My garden in early spring 

My garden in early spring

My garden in early spring

My garden in early spring

My garden in early spring


My garden in early spring

Monday 17 September 2012

Tapestry flower abstract

It is a long time since I posted anything but finally I am recovering well from my hip replacement and getting back to normal activities.....  still lots of rehab. though so I can stop limping!

This tapestry weaving is not one of my best but it has been on the loom for about a year and I just had to finish it!  The surface is too irregular in places but since I was no longer working for assignments I didn't undo sections when the tension needed changing ....  I should have.  I made the design a couple of years ago when I used a photo of a crowea plant (Australian native) and applied a Photoshop filter to it.  I quite liked it so decided to weave it - 42 x 27 cm size.

Tapestry flower abstract