I am in the last week of the preparations for my upcoming exhibition ‘Winter Dialogue’ which opens Thursday 24th August. The ‘Winter Dialogue’ paintings are a series of art works on paper and ...
Art
Being Busy Being Creative
It’s been a long time – far to long since I have been here on the blog. I guess life just got a bit too busy here on the farm and at Colours on Grey. So many things just happened – ...
Dreaming of warmer weather
In the mist of winter, we were suddenly blessed with a week of spring-like weather to the extent where I didn't even needed to keep the fireplace going. It was a wonderful break away from the cold, ...
Autumn Art & Fantastic Food
For many years I have looked at Annie Herron's ad for her residential art classes wishing one day I could join. At the Glen Innes Show I met Sophie Hansen from Local is Lovely (see previous post) and ...
Life goes on
Sometimes life throws you a challenge - and you are left with just one thing - to learn to deal with it. There is no escaping - no easy way out. In the last year I have lost my dear father and one of ...
Sculptures of Sand
I paid a visit to Hundsted Sand Sculpture Festival the other day. It was a perfect sunny day, which brought back memories of sand-castle-building-at-the-beach as a kid, as we drove up along the ...
The art of chairs
I paid a visit to the DesignMuseum Denmark in Copenhagen to see the exhibition 'Just one good chair' - a show of Hans J Wegners chairs. An amazing experience. According to the exhibition ...
Art in your home
One of the really nice things about painting is when people like what you have made. I suppose, it's that extra pad on the shoulder we all long for. Therefore, - when I get a photo mailed to ...
Planning for a new year
Happy New Year to everyone ! At the beginning of a New Year planning is on many minds. If you are running a small handmade business like I am, planning is quite important – otherwise you will get ...
Colour Connect in pictures
Sorry it has taken me a while to get these images onto the blog, but here they are. Max Powell and I just before the opening Friends from near and far came along ..... The Gallery ...
A very busy afternoon
The opening of COLOURS CONNECT was overwhelming ! SO many people turned up and sales were fantastic. Here are a few images from the Gallery for those of you who couldn't make it. I will ...
New printed cards
Another hectic day at The Glen Innes Art Gallery, - and it is looking good. One of the things I have to do is to organise a display for my new printed cards. They are photo's of artworks (or ...