Blue and Brilliant Yellow... todays Colour Palette

Rape Field in the gorgeous sunshine, bright blue, electric yellow with touches of sand and green

slightly muted reflection in the pond

Colours I cannot wait to work with

Lime and Burnt Orange.....Colours from my walk today!

Fresh lime greens with burnt oranges seemed to be everywhere today.........it is still early Spring so the green has not yet got that blue emerald hue. It was a pity that my many photos of the butterfly....only one came out OK and that did not show the bright orange of the top of the wings. 

Only managed to get this butterflies wings closed but amazing orange colour on the top of the wings

A new passion... the fern

Almost coral shade

I love the tight knot like curve at the top of these ferns

Adore the serene reflection...lime green, orange and pale blue

"Pineapple Doors".. completed hand painted door panels

Detail of the stylised pineapples

Just completed the interior door project...... I have used, emulsion and acrylic for the paintwork and used a brushwork technique... a little more painterly than my recent framed watercolours

Mirror image 

cone detail

"Wish List".... For my New Studio....

For my documents

I have been a bit hooked lately on Pinterest and managed to put together some great boards... one of them is some great photos of my dream design studio.......... here are a few of my favourites but why not check out my Pinterest board which I will be constantly updating.

Every good studio has a mini bar and goodies in the showroom

A Library and comfy sofas for design research

paper and design storage

Wall for sketches and ideas

A little corner

An office

Place for things

"Sneaky Peek"... Door project... before I get the detail on

Panels painted with emulsion

My first interior decoration job for years, which I thought that I would share with you. As I have been given carte blanche to do what I want I could skip the finished presentation board and just provide an overall idea.... see pics. Decided on a simple stylised garden theme but using a pineapple as the main motif instead of flowers. Worked up the rough sketch ( decided to leave out he bird) on tracing paper, then after creating a mirror image of each panel I worked up the base colours in a loose painterely technique.......... Detail to follow.....

Inspiration/sketches before I worked out the presentation board

initial sketch, decided against the bird

Main Tracing after final sketch

Getting base colours in emulsion

All base colours completed

Chipchase River Walk...

Lots of benches along this river for the fisherman.....so what is private ? the bench? the river? or the view?

Just got back with Brad from one of our favourite walks by the river near Chipchase Castle.......the weather managed to behave and was sunny, with blue skies popping out amongst the fluffy white clouds.... dodging the rainfall that has been a little relentless this week..... thats why the river was full and flowing with speed.

Almost sculptural this falling trunk with sun hitting the bark

More pheasant feathers along the way... unfortunately I think they may have been caught by foxes while nesting

One of my favourite type of images.... mechanical objects in the countryside 

I wanted to climb inside this little nest