Thank you for visiting my website. There is no “buy now” button, so if you like something you see here, please contact me. If you prefer to see before you buy, I can reserve paintings until you can view them (please phone me on 01287 643030). Visits to my rather untidy home studio are by appointment only.
People who buy my paintings are those who share my love of art and of North Yorkshire: its coast, woodlands and moors. My approach to painting is primarily contemplative, naturalistic yet stylised, looking for the beauty and peace one experiences when immersed in Nature.
You can see my work in a few galleries in North Yorkshire. Please see the “Galleries & Exhibitions” page, and check their details for opening days and times.
Over 140 artists open their doors this summer for one of the biggest open studio events in the UK. Stretching from the coast to the moors, dales, and beyond, North Yorkshire’s artistic community invites the public to take a peek inside their studios this summer. The open studio event takes place across the first two weekends of June: 3-4 and 10-11 June, 2023. It offers the public an exciting chance to discover works from emerging and established artists in the region. The open studio event is organised by the artist-run collective, North Yorkshire Open Studios (NYOS), a not-for-profit community that works to support the hundreds of painters, sculptors, print-makers, jewellers, ceramicists, photographers and creatives who live and work in North Yorkshire. Details of all the artists taking part can be found at : www.nyos.org.uk
I’ll be taking part from Wold Pottery gallery in Loftus, with Jill Christie. There is an article in Yorkshire Life about the Open Studios, I’m so pleased they chose one of my paintings to illustrate it! That painting “White Sun” (Whitby beach) will be exhibited in Wold Pottery. I hope to see you there!
It’s still cold in North Yorkshire, but glorious when the sun shines. Above is my latest finished painting. It is a busy time. I’m now working on commissions, and preparing for the North Yorkshire Open Studios in June.
Spring exhibitions! (And not just flowers in my little garden) As the weather warms up, here are a few places where you can see some of my work this Spring, if you’re visiting North Yorkshire:
The North Yorkshire Open Studios preview exhibition is on at Inspired by Gallery in Danby, until mid May, and there’s a social event with live music on 1 April.
Blandscliff Gallery in Scarborough re-opens its doors on 1 April.
Wold Pottery in Loftus is open Wednesday to Saturdays.
Ailsa Nicholson’s Gallery in Sleights is open weekends.
The Brigantia exhibition at Harlow Carr, Harrogate, starts 21 April.
There is also Land of Iron Museum in Skinningrove and Chris Geall’s Gallery in Grosmont. And of course my untidy home studio, open by appointment. 🙂
My latest painting is different from my other landscapes, an impression from memory rather than a studied representation. A rougher, more immediate painting style. The image started as an abstract, then became a sunset over a frozen broken land, then as paint layers built up, I realised I was painting Glaisdale. It feels good sometimes to start with just marks and colours and discover where the paint takes you. Glaisdale Dale. Oil on thin edge stretched canvas, 50x70cm.
An unexpected present at the beginning of January has been brightening and colouring my Winter. (I have lovely friends). The tulips arrived by post and flowered until March. I couldn’t resist painting them, lined up on my kitchen windowsill… It was an inspired and inspiring gift! I wondered whether to cut off the bulbs and plant them, but I loved seeing the whole plant. I assume they were grown hydroponically, as they arrived with flower buds and clean roots. So I put them in glass vases, and I put some diluted liquid feed in the bottom of the vase. Now the faded petals are falling, so I have cut off the flowering stem and I’ll let the bulbs rest and dry. I’ll plant them in the garden so they can delight me again. I put one in a clay pot, as I love that deep purple colour, so it doesn’t get lost in the garden.
Westerdale, near Castleton, is a very special place for me, and I often return there. It inspired my first two paintings of the year. The first one is currently exhibited at “Inspired by… gallery”, in Danby Moors Centre.
I’ve been selected to take part in the North Yorkshire Open Studios 2023, and all selected artists have been asked to exhibit one artwork in Danby. This preview, which runs until mid May, may help you to decide which artists you will visit in June. With over 140 artists in our vast county, the two open studios weekends may not be long enough to visit them all!
Currently exhibited in Inspired by Gallery in Danby, open every day.
Thank you for your support throughout the year, whether you bought one of my cards, calendar, print or painting, or commissioned a painting. I wish you all a Happy New Year!
Here is a quiet watercolour of Loftus Beck, painted on 25th December.
It’s that time of year! My new calendar for 2023 features my most recent painting of Robin Hood’s Bay on the cover. If you would like to order or reserve one (or more!) of my calendars, please contact me by phone or email. Thank you.
Edit. 6 December. I did do a second edition in November. I have now run out, but there are copies available from Wold Pottery in Loftus, and from the Brigantia exhibition at Inspiredby Gallery in Danby Moors Centre. Thank you to everyone who bought one!
Still at the same price as the last few years (£12.50), with free postage if you order 2 or more (UK only). If you order just one calendar, or calendars to be sent to separate addresses, please add £2 towards postage, as both postage and printing costs have risen. Unless you’re struggling, in that case please let me know and I’ll waive the postage.
PS. 3 November 2022. I have no calendars left in stock, but I could get more printed. So if you missed out but you would like one, please let me know. If I get at least 25 orders, I’ll get more printed in mid November. 🙂
Each page features a different painting. This year the locations are not named on the calendar, so you could play a “guess the location” game, or come back to this page for the answers:
Calendars. Trad tech, re-usable, recyclable. Printed on SFC certified paper (mix from responsible sources). Paper and ink technology: works without need for power or signal, to remind you of important appointments or birthdays. Re-useable: each page is blank on the back, so you can cut out the pictures and use them as stationary or frame your favourite images. By buying a calendar, you get a new image on your wall every month, and you help an artist to carry on creating. Thank you for supporting a local artist!
Some prices don’t change as quickly as others. While sorting some old paperwork, I realised that the retail price of my cards is still as it was twelve years ago! To celebrate this little oasis of tranquillity in our changing world, let me introduce my Robin Hood’s Bay Collection. Please contact me by phone or email, if you want to order or reserve cards. £15 for 6 cards (+ £2 postage, but if you’re struggling, please tell me and I’ll send them free postage), or £30 for 12 cards (2 of each).
I’ve been so lucky this year: a commission every month, from January to July! I’ll be open to new commissions from September. My latest commission, for a lovely couple, to celebrate her 75th birthday, and to have sunny days on their wall everyday: Ebbing Tide Revisited, Robin Hood’s Bay. oil on canvas, 50x70cm.
I love bluebells and in May, between commissions, I painted this sunset. My only painting of bluebells this year, it is rather dark and moody. Someone said his mother used to live in a cottage in these woods, and had to walk to school along those paths. It could feel a bit scary if you were a little girl and, with the Little Red Riding Hood story in your mind, you imagined that a wolf may be hiding amongst the trees… Someone was very interested in this painting, so I told him I would reserve it for him for as long as he needed to decide (I really like it, so I was happy to keep it on my wall). A couple of months later, he has decided that he definitely really likes it. (happy little dance).
