Over the last ten years I have visited the Yeo Valley Organic Garden, at Holt Farm, Blagdon between spring and autumn to draw and paint. Oils mainly on 8 x 8 inch canvas boards (20x20cm) which I can paint onsite over one or two days. My work is a bit like a history of how the garden constantly changes but there are certain features which always attract me ; the crab apple blossom avenue in May; the camassias, the beehives, the silver birch glade, trees at any time, and any quirky new feature.
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Valley of the Rocks in Devon has been on my 'must do' oil painting list for some years. But part of the reason for coming to a Charcoal Landscape Sketchbook Course run by artist Kate Boucher at moorandseaholidays was my hope to have a chance to fit an oil painting in as well. Charcoal is one material I never use because it is messy so I wanted to give it a chance and spend 3 days doing tonal drawing. I can thoroughly recommend this workshop plus there is an art room at the accommodation free to use even if not on a course.
![]() Watersmeet, Carolyn Lamb, Charcoal, A2. At the end of my stay at Moor and Sea Holidays and the Charcoal Sketchbook: Landscape workshops I did a large drawing of the waterfalls at Watersmeet, National Trust, Lyn Gorge, Exmoor. Thanks to techniques demonstrated by artist Kate Boucher I no longer hate charcoal. Staying in London for five days to catch plays and exhibitions. My tiny Hahnemuhle D&S Sketchbook is perfect to carry in a pocket to catch a few quick sketches on the go. Then a colour sketch on Eastbourne beach after visiting the Towner Art Gallery to see Melting Ice, Rising tides solo exhibition by Emma Stibbon,R.A.
britishandirishmoths.co.uk/ After 15 years of holidays and day trips to different parts of Britain so my partner could photograph moth species, his website is finally up. I would paint landscapes and falling down huts while he would photograph the previous nights catch before letting them go. Funnily enough I rarely painted moths. Here is a small selection.
.Finally got round to painting the falling down Grade II listed Victorian Pier at Weston-Super -Mare, designed by legendary pier builder Eugenius Birch and opened in 1867. It joins the mainland to Birkbeck Island. Closed to the public in 1994 due to safety concerns, after years of attempts to get it repaired and restored it has been purchased by North Somerset Council from developers on Thursday 13 July 2023 and restoration work is planned to take place over several years with funding from the council, the National Lottery the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), Historic England. It is so attractive to artists like me in its dilapidated state, so I hope the restoration will not end like the Weston Grand Pier that burned down in 2008 and is rebuilt in a modern style, and more like the attractive restoration of Clevedon Pier. Piers and light houses along the North Smerset coast have been subjects this year
Painting at Holt Farm , the Yeo Valley Organic Garden again this year.
Last year I did 11 oils there. This year I have only done 6 oils and 1 watercolour so far as our variable weather affects my work outdoors. The watercolour was done from under the shelter of a garden gazebo as it was raining, and the round pool was done out of the doorway of the greenhouse as it was raining, while the Ornamental rhubarb was done under the shelter of a brolly as it was baking hot. |
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