Application to Cambridge Drawing Society April 2022!
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…
SEAW Open Exhibition at The Babylon Gallery Ely September 2021
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 August 2021
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…
Wells Crab House
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…
SEAW Selected Exhibition Autumn 2020
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…
ISOLartION – a glimpse through Penny’s studio window
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…
Poster design for SEAW AWASH exhibition February 2020
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…