Gorgeous tree peony

From the heat and colour of Morocco to an English Spring garden. These beautiful flowers bloomed whilst I was away and a friend took the photo for me. It is never easy painting from a photo, attempting to capture the beauty of the flowers. They are larger than a hand and look as fragile as tissue paper. 

Tree peony. Oil on paper

My website

I have finally done a little bit of updating on my website!! It was well overdue!! To include some more recent work, including some you have seen here on my Blog. 

Check it out on www.sheilamanwaring.co.uk.  Click here

Moroccan Aventure!

I have used one of the painted sketches done on my holiday in Essaouira to work up into a studio painting.. The carpet seller at the end of the square was the focus then, but there was so much more going on around me.  Full of light and the amazing colours in the carpets and many things on sale.  Plus of course the lovely blue doors!

The Hat Seller.  oil on canvas.  40*50 cms



Exhibition. JGallery Moulton, Northamptonshire

I was lucky enough to be selected for the exhibition 'Garden Perspectives' at the JGallery in Moulton, Northamptonshire. The exhibition lasts from 15th May until 15th June, please check the website for opening times.  

I painted these pots from the patio doors, luckily the sun was shining for a few days!

Click on the link to go to the website www.jgallery.org.uk



Shadows and pots. oil on canvas

Last of the Apple Blossom

On my return from Morocco I had missed most of the apple blossom. The wind and the rain having blown it away,  so the few sprigs here took some finding and I nearly gave up! Luckily just a few flowers left to paint. 

Last of the Apple Blossom. Oil on paper. 

Storks and a Brass Seller

There were a great many Storks nesting above the shops on the old walls of Marrakech, every now and then we could see a couple of little heads popping up above the nest for a feed. They were guarded and protected from the sun by the adult birds.  I am back from Marrakech feeling quite chilly after the heat!!

Brass seller