..Beauty is this held thing where hope blossoms and love is effervescent. Often we feel it or understand it, but when we connect with light, with nature, with inspiration. The most beautiful places are those where Nature has been respected, where our human touch has been gentle and our convivial lifestyle soft. Often there is harmony in beauty where you can see elements working together that balance and astound us... ...My whole focus revolves around spending valuable time outside. As a plein air artist my paintings are created and produced out in the elements with Mother Nature often playing a lead role in the pieces and outcomes... ...There is nothing more exciting than setting out with a backpack...
This year will be my third year showing at the annual Enys House Art Exhibition held over the Bluebell Festival. I’m so pleased to be joining 9 other local artists in this magic place. You know when a place just holds that extra something, that’s Enys. I think because it’s so raw and undone and yet in the remaking. The spine and history of the house is so vulnerably on show. It is a place on pause, a place of been and yet been: perfectly magnificent and real. Nothing is covered up here, no fakery, no illusions, just pure spirit, mortar and floorboards. And those gardens, the original architectural ideas, it’s location, it’s placement and...
There comes a stage in the swimming, where you are thirsty for water, when you haven't swum. That thick and silky embrace of velvety layers, the moment the water covers your bare shoulders, when your face licks the water and your eyes open to see the turquoise fog, the signs of the sirens begin to swill around your body. That moment when you dive underwater and present your feet to the sky and your fingers to the underworld, when you come up and the surface breaks with your face to the air and your ears muffle in a delightful pause and a bridge of senses. When the sun rises over the water and you can swim towards its light....
I'm often asked if people can stop by the studio, in the summer it's a little harder as when the weather's good, (as it has been!) I like to be out painting in it. Coming up is your chance to come and say hi and with any luck there will be lots of pieces to pick up and finally take home. Put the evening of Friday the 30th November in your diaries. From 5pm to 7pm, Krowji will be opening its doors in true Christmas Spirit and then throughout the weekend, Saturday 1st and 2nd of December Sunday 10am - 5pm. Come and see Cornwall's largest creative hub and take a peak inside these art spaces. My little drawing...
I'm really excited to announce that you will find a selection of my cards available to buy at the Eden Project. I couldn't be more thrilled to work with them. Printed onto recycled paper from the West Country, the printing process powered by solar; with a recycled brown paper envelope, and all wrapped up in compostable plastic free packaging, it seems they have finally found each other! See if you can spy them in the shop and definitely pick up a few.
