Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the birdies is!

September! Where was my good intention to keep this blog totally up to date? I wonder what happened. Whatever it was, it didn't do my blog any good because last post, was August 4th. However, if a pitiful excuse is required, then I have been very, very busy indeed. Painting and yet more painting for an exhibition that is FINALLY coming to pass. The advertisement will go into the papers next weekend, with Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday afternoon openings, 12 noon to 4pm in the last week of September and the 1st week of October. The paintings are ~ of course ~ flowers. Big, bright, bold and beautiful. There will also be a couple of surprise exhibitors. The people on our island are so incredibly talented and I'm delighted that Studio 123 provides an opportunity for others to show their wares also. Please keep an eye on this bog and with good luck and a fair breeze, I'll be madly blogging as I'm madly painting, madly gardening and madly living. Huh. Should be fun!

She who blogs on Monday has all the week to write....

to paraphrase an old nursery rhyme relating to tardiness! I really thought I had it down to blog every Monday but here we are, it's Thursday, two weeks later. Oh well. I've another blogging workshop with Tina this Saturday and who knows, maybe I'll find some extra hints on keeping up!
I'm painting like a crazed being at the moment, in the hope that the exhbition I had set down for 1st May, then 1st June, then 1st July then 1st August and now, 1st of September or really, Friday the 3rd, will actually happen. Everything is crossed. I'm hoping to again exhibit other works of art by some of the very talented people in our community. My December exhibition also showed works by Leslie Jenkins. Plaiting or weaving of the island flax is a traditional art for our culture and Leslie's plaiting is really fine. She displayed half a dozen hats with different styles and decorations. All the hats were in the natural colours of the dried flax but she had trimmed two of them with pieces that she had hand dyed ~ one in red and one in blue. I'll try very hard to get a photo out of her because they were spectacular.

Creative Me!

Okay, I've just uploaded another three paintings. Just for something completely different, they're frangipani!! The set of three are quite small measuring 8" x 8", 4" x 4" and 6" x 4". Quite sweet and I paint quite a few of them. Great gift for someone visiting Norfolk; a Norfolker visiting another country; a housewarming; a birthday ~ actually ~ for anything! I've received a few commissions for them in specific colour schemes and tones. All commissions graciously received.

Hi and Bye, July

At our Blogging Workshop, one of the things that we were told is VERY important, is to frequently update your blog. Hmm. Last updated 29 June. If I wait until next Friday I could be a whole month behind! I've been to Darwin for a quick trip and as on past visits, I found it very inspirational. Darwin has many gallery's and art is everywhere. I purchased a painting by Northern Territorian artist Kit McNeil, which is a beautiful scene of the sea, waves and rocky shoreline with a MAGNIFICENT pool with reflection. Stunning. A very happy birthday present to myself. I've come home all enthusiastic for a new exhibition at Studio 123. Again, mostly flowers and again, mostly frangipani. I'm also getting alot of pleasure painting small canvas's and creating art whimsy. As Charlie said in Two and a Half Men, "..we can all stand a little whimsy!" I'm adding some older paintings and will upload my more recent paintings, after the exhibition which I'm hoping will be sometime in August. I would also like to exhibit pieces created by other Island artists. We have so many talented people here on Norfolk.

Art from outside the front door

I saw Elizabeth the other day and she said she'd found my blog! Heck. Haven't updated for....hmmm.... let me check. Oops. Almost two months. Wasnt't that Rule One of the Blogger Workshop. Frequent updates so that people stay interested. I will write one hundred lines of I will do better!

Frangipanis and Magnolias

As you can see I'm still having my love affairs with frangipanis, but this time, instead of self framed canvas, I've framed it in a silver rope frame.

The magnolia is from a tree outside our beautiful St Barnabas Chapel, and the frame I've used is an ornate celtic frame, which suits the opulent beauty of the magnolia grandiflora.