Delighted that Lily has chosen my ‘Yellow Garden’ painting from 1994 in oil on canvas to go on her site on Instagram. I am among some great painters on there! It was made from a sketch done on holiday in Brittany in a very special garden at a gite we stayed at. Here is the sketch fyi. I can revisit the garden through the painting and so can you all too now! Here is the link to Lily’s post any support you can give greatly appreciated!

Well I am doing battle with my current creative embroidery of the reed beds from a recent visit to Norfolk. I enjoy the comforting nature and feel of working with the dyed linen, and the slow and repetitive experience of the hand stitch brings me into the moment continuously. I work from a drawing but don’t slavishly copy it, it evolves. Will share the drawing when I am ready, but not yet. I hold the creative space loosely, this is my freedom. That is why I don’t like colouring books or jigsaws they take that freedom away that is in all of us….