How wonderful it is to be able to exhibit at a new venue. The Old Goods Shed at Clare Castle Country Park was a new one for the SEAW in 2022. And what a beautiful venue it was! I have many find memories of taking…
I challenged myself this year to apply for Cambridge Drawing Society. Big challenge indeed for me – I had to enter four framed paintings that went together well, all the same size and framed in the same way. So … what to do … well…
The National Horse Racing Museum in Newmarket is well known and highly regarded both locally, nationally and internationally. Part of the museum is housed in a beautiful building which used to be the Royal Palace of Charles II when he came to the town to…
How wonderful it is to be able to actually exhibit in a gallery once again! I was lucky to have had one of my paintings ‘The beauty of trees’ chosen as the art work to feature on all of the printed and online publicity…
Babylon Open exhibition is open to entries from artists throughout east Anglia. Entries can be in any medium – eg watercolour, acrylics, oils, mixed media, fabric, three dimensional sculptures and even video. This year they had so many entries that extra time was taken to…
Just before the first lockdown, in February 2020, my painting friend Linda and I were staying in Wells, Norfolk for a few days. We were stewarding at the SEAW Awash exhibition at Wells Maltings and also wanted to take the opportunity to walk and sketch…
I am really pleased to announce that I now have a selection of greetings cards available which have been created from a few of my recent favourite paintings. Each card measures 12 cms x 12 cms, is blank inside for your own personal message and…
This year, the SEAW selected exhibition is taking place online. 304 paintings by 81 artists were entered and the final online exhibition consists of 165 paintings by 71 artists. The three judges – Lillias August, John Crossley and Julia Sorrell are all active members of…
Since May 15th, the SEAW has been running a Painting Positive Postcards competition to help Vandy Massey get closer to her 1000 paintings for charity initiative – Running with Brushes. She received 103 postcards from members and friends in the 6 weeks of the competition with…
My painting of Diss was featured in the SEAW series of ISOLartION articles. The aim of the articles was to give the public an idea of what the artists of the Society were thinking, feeling and doing during lockdown. My article was published on 1…
How proud was I to find that my picture of Wells painted from the nearby marshes on an unbelievably warm day the previous Spring was chosen as the image for the call for entries and publicity information for the SEAW AWASH exhibition at Wells in…