The show went up on Wednesday, with Alun (my husband) in a new role, assisting with the hang. It went well, he’s hired!
Thank you to the staff at Waterloo Tea for their help and patience, customers too, who put up with me pottering around them, I hope I didn’t spoil their tea and cake time. I did receive some nice feedback.
Throughout the pandemic many of us yearned for wide open spaces, I felt very drawn to coastal Wales. We visited North Wales enjoying the mountains and sea, Pembrokeshire, and more locally Rest Bay.
I generally make sketchbook studies, sometimes very quickly and then make the paintings once home. There is a big element of memory and imagination that I bring to my work, I find this freeing and it’s where, just sometimes, the magic happens! I am expressing how the place made me feel.
Nature’s greater forces offer a renewed perspective, the constant ebb and flow of the sea-a reminder of eternity. We can look outwards towards a distant horizon, something many of us have yearned for over the past 2 years. But we can look back too, towards shelter and home or to dream of going on a journey.
The beach is also a place of huge fun and freedom for families and beach-happy dogs, I couldn’t resist making some of these into small ink drawings along with sea swimmers and golden suns, making affordable mini artworks -£5 each.
All works are available to buy (from £5 to £160) with 20% being donated to Cardiff Foodbank.
Thanks for visiting my website, I hope you would like to visit the show…there’s always cake!
