Autumn News

Well that was a short summer wasn’t it? Months of rain followed by a brief warm sunny spell, here in Lincolnshire anyway, followed swiftly by cold rainy weather, and it is only the beginning of October!

Since my exhibition in July and August, I have been unable to paint. The reason for this is that I am in the process of moving house. My studio is all packed away in readiness. The trouble is, the selling process is taking far longer than anticipated. How frustrating it is!

However, I think myself lucky. In the early summer I visited some galleries in Asheville, North Carolina. I specifically wanted to visit Jaime Byrd’s gallery and see her paintings, which are amazing. She creates moving images from the paintings which you can see with an app while in gallery, the water moves! She has been hit hard by Hurricane Helene, and like all of the artists in that valley lost thousands of dollars worth of equipment, prints, frames, her whole business. Luckily she managed to save the paintings, but her studio is under a sea of mud. You can see it on the TV but when you have been there, met the people, swum in Lake Lure, now full of fallen trees and the remains of people’s homes, it makes it real.

Apart from the frustration and stress of selling and buying a house, and the weather, the summer has been good for me. Both of my paintings at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, Cottongrass Upper Derwent and Rubicon Wall have sold, Breakthrough was sold at Doddington Hall and now two more of my paintings are in the LAS exhibition in the Usher Art Gallery in Lincoln, Stanage Autumn and Cottongrass Bamford Moor. I have also sold several at  the Indigo Crow Gallery.

I hope that by the time I write here again I will have moved house and have a studio to paint in!