Iconic View at Kelmarsh Hall & Gardens!

This is a familiar view of Kelmarsh and the Yew Trees to anyone who has been there.  It is actually called the Double Border, and changes with the seasons.  I painted this a week ago in the rain and the sun, and it has taken me a week to photograph it, as I do it outside and it was raining all the time!!

Double Border, Kelmarsh Hall & Gardens.  Oil on board.

Exhibition Time!!

It is Exhibition time for Roz Bradshaw and I.  We are at the Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering from next Wednesday 29th July.

We both love painting in oils, so hence the title "Two Views in Oils".  You will be very welcome to come along and enjoy our work!

Lots of Hydrangeas!!

I started this painting on the Patio, then I was driven indoors by the weather. Eventually finishing it off back where I started! I am rather fond of these lovely flowers, and can not resist when I find a particularly gorgeous one.  The very pale pink one is a variety I just happened to come across recently at a local garden centre.  It is called Charme and all the petals have a very fine pink outline to them.

Lots of Hydrangeas!  Oil on board.

Frisby Grange Farm, Gaulby

It seems a very long time since I managed to get out and do some painting!! As part of Leicester Sketch Club we went to Frisby Grange Farm and had a lovely time wandering around.  Eventually we got down to some work with our pencils, paints, pastels and brushes!! Then the sun came out!  Our host Daisy Fawcett really spoilt us by cooking up a cream tea.  Every one agreed it felt like we were on holiday!

Frisby Grange Farm.  Oil on board