Detail - self portrait.
Painted during a difficult time - eldest daughter stuck in Paris alone with covid, self isolating with my 2 other children & a series of personal & professional disappointments. A tired face receding into inky darkness!
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I decided to paint full time 3 years ago, but design duties crept quietly back in 🤨
Last day teaching landscape design today 🥳 & I’ve promised myself a rest & painters reset
Here’s my 1st painting as a ‘painter’ Miss Jack Ink now 3 years old
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A detail life study sketch - pencil & conté crayon💓
As it’s not always possible to get your sitter to sit for long, it’s important to capture the essence of the personality & the shape of the features with the minimum of marks 🌟
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New portrait - underpainting (grisaille) stage
I love this stage of the oil portrait and use burnt umber/titanium white diluted with turpentine to fix the values before colour.
I use the paint brush the same way as I would pencil 🤓
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Self
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painted from life 🖤
Current face showing a build up of emotions over the last 6 months : epic betrayal, 2 friends with cancer & a sick daughter
The next 6 months shall be better 🌟
Detail shows actual colours 🎨
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A big girl birthday today for my 2nd daughter 💓
Being a painter, I paint all of my children, even if they’re embarrassed & it’s a cringy thing for a mother to do 😅
Here’s a few portraits - she’s also a budding artist 🌸
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2021 was a busy painting year - here are my
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Thank you all who’ve shown support, especially appreciated this year 💓 & to
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who have elected me as Associate member & to
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whom I’ve exhibited with & support women in the arts 🙏
Happy, healthy 2022🕊
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🎉💓 BIG NEWS 💓🎉
French post just delivered a letter from
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letting me know I’ve been elected as an Associate Member - what an honour indeed 🙏
From a difficult start of the year ☠️ to a full cheesy grin end of the year 😁
Thank you 💓
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Last painting of the year - quick alla prima portrait of my daughter Valentine. Ive 2 teenage daughters at art school and it’s not easy for them right now because of the Covid restrictions. Lets hope 2021 is easier for all students whatever they’re studying
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Layers in on self portrait. A final finish off once the wet paint glare has dried off.
It’s difficult painting yourself but think I’ve just about captured a mother’s concern having a Covid positive child & self isolating with the 2 others
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I always plan my portraits carefully & have the final look in mind when I start - this portrait, however, took a couple of different turns.
From Ok grisaille, to bad colour choice, to perseverance & to final colour - I made it ! 😵💫🙏🤩
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A pencil portrait worked up further from a simple sketch from life 💓
Only dry artwork for now as preparing for a major studio move in the new year
Watch this space, it’s going to be exiting creating the new Loire Classical Studio 🌟
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Dreadful awful year and it just got worse 😥 everything that was just about keeping me together just fell apart. Dearest twitter friends lovely photos, drawings, paintings of cats & dogs sent my way would be much appreciated right now 🤗😭🤗 hugs to you all
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I've been nominated to post my art for 10 days to share positivity & our collective ❤️ of art! Much needed in the world right now!
Day 2 - here’s an alla prima sketch that I really enjoyed painting ‘contre jour’ 🌒
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Happy New Year 🎉
2024 will be a big year when I relocate my family & studio to the beautiful Loire Valley
For 15 years I have practiced Interior Architecture & then full time painting in my current studio, it will be a big change!
Always follow your dreams, cheers everyone🥂
My art student daughter Valentine next to her portrait ‘today I’m Frida’ 💓🥂💓
Excited that this portrait is included in the Society of Women Artists 160th Annual Open Exhibition 🎉
Can be viewed online 21 sept - 31 Dec
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Finished! “Today I am Frida”
A lockdown portrait of my daughter Valentine after Frida Kahlo’s self portrait : Thorn necklace & hummingbird
Of course no thorns & the black cat/monkey have been replaced by 2 spoilt dogs
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2023 is finally in the bin 🥳
2023 at the start was a horrible year that thankfully improved in the 2nd half with painting, hard work, inner strength, prayer, my children, my dogs, wine & Netflix 😅
Here’s a detail of my Guardian Angel portrait who’s guiding 2024 all the way 🕊️