It's been a while.........

I have not posted for a while and I have missed it strangely, I think because I have been painting away for a show in 2016 my mind has been elsewhere. I had some great news yesterday that has certainly put a spring in my step and that is that I have two pieces this year hung In Royal Academy Summer Exhibition! I feel super excited and am so looking forward to seeing them there.
The process of selection has changed to a digital one in the last couple of years and there are a couple more hurdles to cross. I was selected but not hung last year which feels like a tease, being accepted or rejected by this particular institution runs deep.
I am a great fan of Norman Ackroyd and he was on the selection committee this year and I wanted to hang my little (5cmx5cm) so badly. So next week I am off to Varnishing Day....Yipeeeeee
I am also being featured in Coast magazine in The August edition, an article about my past spending lots of time at my beach hut thinking and enjoying my surroundings. Looking forward to seeing that too

'The Visitor'

Happy Days

It was a great week last week in more ways than one……don't you just love it when things that you have had in the pipe line for a while come together so nicely.
Firstly I had an article about little old me published in Homes & Antiques magazine and it was beyond my expectations and looks really really good!
Secondly I had my painting excepted in 'Summer Exhibition in the Royal Academy….I will find out if it gets hung on 22nd May so my fingers are crossed.
Thirdly I went away to Whitstable for the weekend and the weather was great which meant we could sit in the sunshine…open up the beach hut…..eat outside……a little bit of heaven………..

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

I am really proud to announce that my little painting 'She's Leaving Him' has been accepted for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition this year YIPEEEEE. It is a wonderful thing to be a part of such a prestigious event and have my painting hanging in The Royal Academy!!!.The exhibition opens to the public on June 4th-12th August so plenty of time to get to see it.

'She's leaving him'