Glos Guild Gallery now at Chapel Arts, Cheltenham.

The Guild has moved tempororaliy to Chapel Arts in Cheltenham while the Museum has building work done. This new gallery is only aprox 100yds down the road from the Museum (away from town, same side of the road.)It will be open 10-4 Weds to Sat. Do go and see the new gallery and have a chat to Jo our wonderful gallery manager. It opens today (Aug 5th)

These are the four new pictures I have for sale there.

July perpetual nature journal.

 Here are my pages from July in my perpetual journal. As you can see some pages are filling up and it really is such a colourful time of year. We have had a real mixture of weather - warm again now and a brilliant year for butterflies. We are joining in with The Big Butterfly Count and spotted 8 different species in our garden yesterday. 

Little book of lockdown 2

 I finished the second little book, this one inspired by walks and the garden during lockdown. If you follow my Instagram account you will have seen this patches in the making.

 The hay is being cut and baled up. Always in this field there is a ridge that can't be cut and so the wild flowers are left to prosper. My next piece of work is about this ridge.

 It was thrown up during the second world war as tank defences, or so the story goes. It is always interesting to see what flowers and when.

 Knapweed.

I love Scabious and its delicate shades of mauve.

Nature journal for June.

 My perpetual journal pages for June. Drawing regularly is such a pleasure. It takes all the concentration to do and is so peaceful. I have included a few close ups at the ene, including that bad chicken I posted about on Instagram. (Put in a separate enclosure for bullying the others)

Tiny patch book finished and same sea different boat.

 Here is the first tiny lockdown book finished. I have been rather tardy keeping my blog uptodate but with lockdown it has been hard to get on our P.C. So I will have a bit of a catch up. All these tiny patches reflect my feelings during lockdown.

 Some bright and some dark. Well there has been pros and cons of course. More local walks and time in the garden but awful news of suffering and death. So many tragedies. So I have spaced the monotone with the colourful.

 covers in progress and pinned.

 This is my collagraph for Sue Browns patchwork quilt project for lockdown. you can find her blog on the bottom of my blog list. It had to be a bird from me. They have kept me company every day.

Tiny lockdown artists books.

 I have a new project underway making little books of lockdown. I started making tiny patches some square - more abstract and some rectangular - more about landscape and local walks. So my original thought of one little book became 2 books.

 The red dotted lines is the walking line. Daily walks are so valuable in lockdown especially at first when that was all we were allowed to do.

 I have always based my artwork on what I see everyday but now more thankful than ever to live in beautiful countryside and observe the daily changes in Nature.

 Lockdown throws up so many emotions. Worry, anger, frustration, sadness and calm, quiet days. Not all bad. The peacefulness of no cars and planes has been glorious. seeing friends again I am observing more emotions from them. My life isn't that different, but other gregarious people have found it much harder.

 The little books will have 8 patches in each and maps behind some. I have ideas for the covers.

 I'm not sticking them in yet until I have them all made and the ideas all developed.

Perpetual journal for May.

 Here are my pages for May in my Perpetual Journal. All these pages had some entries from last year so it has been fun adding to them, working around them and looking at my observations for last year. This year, of course, goes down in history as a 'Very Peculiar Spring' and I have had more time to draw which has been wonderful. Missing friends, extended family and holidays has not been so much fun. Love to you all and stay safe.

That cow parsley piece finished for now, while I take a break from it and then assess later.