• Upcycling

    Overdue ‘Artistic’ Update

    I haven’t blogged in a long time. Like many, I have found the past 2 years difficult and limiting throughout the pandemic but I am raring to get going again with many new ideas forming in my head. Creativity has taken a bit of a knock but it’s still in there underneath, just waiting to escape! I’ve created more ‘artwork’ in the past while than usual, maybe a way of self therapy was required, it wasn’t easy to get out for furniture pieces and canvases were far easier. I returned to oils for a change, trying out oil sticks for speed and then enhancing the painting once it dried a…

  • Upcycling

    Hand Painted in Ayrshire

    Sometimes you just have to push the boat out (pardon the pun) and paint with your heart.  This set of drawers has been as much fun as it is huge!  It’s really liberating to just let the paint flow where it wants to go and I’d not done much blending before, this was the largest blank canvas I had. I moved to the seaside 6 years ago, to Ayr on Scotland’s west coast. I’m new here, I still feel like I’m on holiday and I feel so lucky, it inspires me every day with its ever changing scenery. The weather may not be the best but the views are stunning,…