Back again

Posted on September 2, 2009
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Back in the studio again,well nearly,after a long absence.People often ask me how long it takes to paint a picture…but it is never the painting of it that takes the time but the thinking about it.As I paint from my own personal experiences on my journey,I also have to live it !This one I am about to do has been whizzing round in my head for years but I suspect at long last I have a “handle” on it.I know what it has to say but its getting the right visual image in my head,to say it.In the end it has to show that Jesus has the victory in ALL situations.

Time to paint!

Posted on October 19, 2007
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brushes RIMG2756 I took this photo recently in my studio. I have been recovering from a complete knee replacement(ouch!) and have been unable to stand to paint. How could I have let my paintbrushes get covered in cobwebs?! A friend told me a few weeks ago, that painting was what I was made for (I’m not sure that is completely true). I wonder how many of us just let things tick over, instead of fully embracing what God has planned for us.

Back to Work!

Posted on September 18, 2006
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I’ve been away for about a month in France, staying with friends. So I suspect time for playing is over!

I feel like I painted myself to a bit of a standstill before I went away.I have lots of ideas but getting the images from my mind onto the silk is always the biggest step.

It’s never lack of ideas, it’s more about deciding which one will say what I want it to say, with the greatest impact.The last series, Crossroads was a very different process. I had in my mind a moving video. Then I would play it backwards and forwards until I could try to see and paint the single still frame that would tell part of the story and some of the conclusions.

As always God is doing a new thing and there is never a definite formula to the way I get the images or paint. I have lots of images in my mind and a few in sketch books…

But…which ones go with which verses? I shall meditate more on each verse and see where it takes me. As they say “watch this space”

What next ?

Posted on March 5, 2006
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With great sadness, last week I gave in my notice as the outreach worker at Swaythling Methodist church, which has probably come as a shock to all of us involved in the work on the estate. It was time for me to hand over to someone else with different gifts to continue with the Lord’s work.

So what next?

I feel an urgency to start painting again, and have some amazing images in my mind. I knew that there was probably a third series of silk paintings but just couldn’t ‘get a handle’ on it.However during the last few months, I have been reminded of many instances and situations in my life showing me God’s faithfulness.In fact the first thoughts of this were on holiday with my husband in Cornwall last August.I was thinking about God’s faithfulness to me for several days when we went out driving over Dartmoor. We stopped for a coffee, walked around a village and went into the local church. Just as we were going out of the doors, an elderly man walked into the church, drew back the curtains to the organ and sat down and played ” Great is thy Faithfulness”. He didn’t play anything else and just drew the curtains again and walked out. I felt as though he had played it just for me!

I haven’t been in my studio for months but felt really ‘at home’ last week when I had to go in there for something.I don’t know if the new paintings will ever be on display and am filled with some trepidation at starting a new series.

My work finishes at the end of March and perhaps I will start to paint again in April.