hi I have finally got sorted with a blog - now I am trying to work out what to do. I plan to put all the recent info about work shops and evening classes, new work, news and events, accolades and honours!!! oh and when i’m on my hols of course!

I reopened 3 weeks ago upstairs above the new rather lovely gift shop, ‘More than words’, on Kinver High St- and so far it has been fabulous! visitor numbers are daily more than I used to get in a week and the response has been wonderful. I have lots of new work for sale, originals on canvas and prints and I’m busy working on commissions and new ideas…in fact today I had to muck out the studio as I had completely trashed it after only 3 weeks!!

last night[4th aug] we started a new art class [ECG - Enville community group, but being a trained nurse I now see them as my cardiac group.. and that's not because you are all middle aged and over ...honest]. I was apprehensive as to how i was going to motivate the group as there are 12 and some on holiday -..but I think it went really well, they are all starting with the basics in drawing skills, line, tone, perspective etc and then we’ll advance to the fun stuff and get creative, which they all believe they can’t do.. but we’ll see!!

let me know if anyone would like to join any of the workshops that I will be running from September, they will be mon, wed, fri am, for 2 or 3 hrs at a cost of £7.50 per hour for tuition in groups of 3-4, these will be very much geared towards the type of painting that I do which is all about using my life experiences, memories, thoughts and feelings to create a painting with warmth and humour or sentiment.

meet with friends!