Lavender fields

A few weeks ago I went with my parents to a local lavender field and finally got round to painting one of the photos I took there.

There's a nice little cafe there and they have lots of lavender products on sale, including lavender marmalade which I'm not too sure about. You pay to go onto the field but can then pick as much lavender as you want.

I find this photo hilarious.

Can you spot my Dad?

I spent ages trying to get a decent photo of this butterfly.

This was the best I could get before it flew away.

And the place was buzzin'.

Quite literally.

So many bees!!

In others news, I sold this painting at the Haynes Art Gallery. Yay!!

Painting from a screen

The other day I was watching Dawson's Creek and there was a scenic shot of the creek and I thought, 'that would make a good painting.'

So I painted it.

I put the dvd in my laptop so that I could have it right next to my paints and just paused it on the right shot.

It's one of the first landscapes I've painted in a while where I haven't actually been to the place.

Unfortunately.

I'm sure North Carolina is lovely.

And if anyone is wondering how my goal of watching all of DC over the summer is going, cos I'm sure y'all are keeping tabs, I've just watched the 4th episode of the 4th season. Good progress.

The Places I Have Been

I currently have an exhibition up at the Letchworth Arts Centre of some of my landscape paintings.

The paintings were made between 2008 and 2010 and depict places that I've been, as the title of the exhibition suggests.

There are paintings of France, New Zealand, Australia, Budleigh Salterton, Norfolk - where I go to uni, and even a couple of my hometown.

You can see some of the paintings closer up in the landscape section of my paintings page.

And of course here's the 'artist with their work' shot.

Last night the arts centre held a private view for the current exhibitions, inlcuding mine, which focused on the sticky tape project they've been working on for a long time. You can read more about it here.