Draycott Festival of Art and Gardens

Low Moon.  HH2011

All Yellow. HH 2011

I've just dropped off some new work to the Beetroot Tree Gallery who will be open over the weekend as part of the Draycott Festival of Art and Gardens.  The pieces were inspired by the intense yellow rape fields I saw whilst out and about last week.

Hope you can make it to the festival.

A Spring Rainbow

Happy Easter!  What a week. I've been working hard and playing hard with trips to Melton Mowbray Flea Market, Rutland Water, Uppingham, Nottingham University and Wollaton Hall. Such beautiful weather! 

The landscape was so inspiring; fields full of rape in glorious yellow. The garden is bursting with green shoots and we've eaten chocolate eggs wrapped in a rainbow of shiny wrappers.  

So much colour and light....I'm giddy with it!

Such a beautiful day

We went to a beautiful wedding in Yorkshire over the weekend. The Bride and Groom were blessed with an amazing Spring day. All the details of the wedding were so stylish and colourful. The service was held in St.Johns Church in Sharow where my Great Great Grandfather, Thomas Heath Foden married Emily Sophia Gray in 1881.  It added a poignancy to the service that was full of the marriage of ideas, art and music as befit the union of this Bride and Groom. Their love shone like a rainbow.  Congratulations Amy and Pavel!

New Arts Derbyshire website

I opened up the new Arts Derbyshire website to find that I'm front page news!  Have a look!

Cor Blimey!

After a trawl back through my blog to find an image, I realised just how much work has taken over my life recently and how little the garden, chickens, and kids feature these days.  That made me a bit sad.  Then todays eggs arrived!  I couldn't help smile, and then wince when I saw this GINORMOUS egg!  The one on the right is normal sized.  The one on the left is beautiful and still warm.  We're hoping its a double yoker.

ps.  It was!  And very yummy scrambled.

Today

I bought these Stickopotamus stickers in New York and have had them in my studio since.  Today is their moment as they have inspired an American city design to complement an earlier London city design.  Better get on with it!

Ideas change

Sometimes designs just take on a life of their own.  By the end of yesterday I'd created these, combining elements from my artwork with new design elements for these reflective cards. I had more in mind but what was in my head wasn't how they turned out and I somehow lost my confidence with them.  Any way, I'll send them out into the world and see how they are received!