Two new small (A5) watercolour paintings ready to go to an exhibition which opens at the end of the month at Roger Billcilffe Gallery in Glasgow.

The title of the second is from a line in the poem Wind by Ted Hughes.

I am lowering my prices this year - sales have slowed down in most of the art market (I'm not buying either!) and I want to keep my paintings affordable for more people. These are £155 unframed. (Similar work in previous years was £185).

What do you think about the prices of original art?

Are they too high?

 

It is a glorious sunny morning and I'm off to the Boathouse (see here) for COS - Cowal Open Studios weekend (see here).

If you are near enough I hope you will come. So much to see!

I'm about to fill the car with everything but the kitchen sink - travelling light is not an option today!

More later....

Later:

I stopped to take this photgraph on the way to Caol Ruadh today. I think I may have one of the loveliest commutes in the country....

The photographs I've taken of the coriander were taken on bright sunny days, but the painting was begun on a day of soft diffuse light and the flowers seemed to float in the air...


Oh, and irresistable is the 17C way of spelling irresistible (knew it didn't look right yesterday!)

I'm so enjoying working in The Boathouse at Caol Ruadh, surrounded by flowers which I've been bringing from the garden at home..

cornflowers and dill in a cornflower blue pot which I found in a charity shop..

More blues in a big lime green jug - I just keep adding more and more - any day now it will all collapse!

I can see a new series of paintings - Flowers in The Boathouse....

Irresistable. Enough to keep me very busy for some time.

Check out the blog on Caol Ruadh's website here

I'm loving being artist in residence at the Scottish Sculpture Park!        www.scottishsculpturepark.com

Here are some of the paintings currently on show:

We had a great weekend at the Scottish Sculpture Park.

Lots of visitors and some sales too....and my show is extended for another week.

Tighnabruaich Gallery are using the space in The Boathouse....

which is currently being restored,

            though it's rather attractive in its rough state too I think...

The latest and largest painting 'Dreams of Flying' (paint still wet!)

More about the Sculpture Park here
More about Tighnabruaich Gallery here
and more on my arty blog when  I update it tomorrow....