THEMED TRAIL with Oxfordshire Artweeks.
Each day there is a different theme on the online gallery which can be seen here or on Instagram.
View a flip file of the Christmas catalogue HERE
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Day 1: Winter Greens
Snowberries and Rosehips:
Celebrating the amazing wild rosehips in all the country hedgerows
in watercolour as an original or a giclee.
Original: 22cm square plus borders – unframed: £190
Giclee: 30cm square including 5cm border: £50
Set of 6 cards 15cm x 15cm, blank inside: £10.00
Day 2: Rich Reds
A splash of red:
This painting sparkles with a Klimt richness in a 20cm x 25cm x.9mm panel.
Oils are painted over a collage and the pattern is gilded in 23c gold. The edges are painted red.
Unframed: £250
Day 3: White as snow
Snowstorm on the Ridgeway:
Oils on panel. beautifully framed. 100cm x 45cm x .9cm.
Thick impasto paint, textured in subtle hues, to describe the double clump of trees (The catterpillar trees) viewed from Holborn Hill.
The original is SOLD. Available as a giclee image: 70cm x 38cm £150; or 42cm x 22cm: £75
Day 4: Home and Hearth
Northern River – This painting has been hanging in my home above the hearth for almost 2 years now and it is time to part with it. It is a facsimile of Tom Thomsons’ Northern River – part of a master-workshop I did in 2019. I chose Tom Thompson, a Canadian Impressionist, who very sadly died young in a canoe accident. 100cm x 120cm : £950
Day 5: A Winter’s Walk
– or in this case, A winter’s drive: ‘Puddled Verge’. It had been a miserable rainy New Year’s Day and we needed to get out of the house, so we went for a drive to the Ridgeway. Suddenly the sun came out followed by a glorious winter sunset. You can even see the raindrops on the windscreen. 45cm x 45cm, framed : £400
Day 6: Gold, Glamour and Glitz
Gift of flowers: This painting is from a new collection of small panels that I have started, exploring line, texture, pattern, gold and aluminium, painted in oils over collage. I start with a scrappy arrangement of flowers or berries and work intuitively from there. The edges are painted pale cerulean.
Unframed: £250
Day 7: Festive Flora
‘Blue candlestick and red leaves’. The Cotonis Corrygia (Smoke Bush) fascinates me – in Summer the leaves are a deep purple and the shrub sports fluffy pink flowers and in Autumn the leaves become ‘Permanent Rose’ with pretty patterns of brown spots. I painted this yesterday to celebrate the leaves & berries table centrepiece that I did for a friend’s birthday. As always, my flower arrangements tend to be scrappy in about 4-5 little glass bottles.
Original: 22cm square plus borders – unframed: £190
Giclee: 30cm square including 5cm border: £50
Day 8 Feast and Make Merry
‘Winter abundance’ watercolours – giclees available. This is the Iris Foetida and it glows with colour at this time of the year. It is a wild iris that is very Bee-friendly.
Original: 22cm square plus borders – unframed: £190
Giclee: 30cm square including 5cm border: £50
Day 9 Christmas is coming.
‘Lavender in a green bottle’. I have a friend who dries her lavender at the end of summer every year and makes Christmas Lavender bags for all the women in her family. My painting of lavender sits in a tiny green bottle – to make way for berries a bit further down the line.
Original: Sold
Giclee: 30cm square including 5cm border: £50
Day 10: Quirky for Christmas
‘White Hyacinths’ Last year at the end of September, with some help from a gardening friend, I planted 40 white hyacinths in little black plastic pots and kept them in the garage, only watering them once little green shoots appeared. I planted them in pretty baskets as gifts for my daughters.
Original: 22cm square plus borders – unframed: £190
Giclee: 30cm square including 5cm border: £50
Day 11: Winter Greens (and pussy willow)
Still life on a fine day – Detail and the whole painting . If you scroll, you’ll move through the seasons to Summer Pinks. Oils over collage, sanded back, and repainted in oils. This is one of the paintings I have on my wall, but sometimes, ‘one just has to let go’!
Oils on panels, glued to a large panel 80cm x 100cm: £2000
Day 12: Rich reds
Lilies for Alison. I had intended this to go on a very dark grey wall in my home, but when I put it on my red wall, it glowed! If you look very hard you may just glimpse the collaged figures in the bottom right and top right corners. I love lilies and have many drawings of them.
Oils on panels, over collage with added 23c gold; glued to a large panel 80cm x 100cm (nfs)
Day 14: Hearth and Home
Jug and feathers – 20cm x 25cm. Just a wee oil painting exploring opposite colours and textures.
Day 15 Gold, glamour and glitz
Red Berries and Chartreuse: I just can’t resist the rich tapestry of metal, pattern, thick and thin paint. This lady has been looking at me for a few months in its collage-only state and while I usually keep the collage as the faintest dream, she was more demanding and wanting to be seen.
20 x 25 on a 1cm panel. Oils and aluminium over collage: £250.
Day 16: Festive flora
My winter garden – These berries are from the Iris Foetida (Stinking Iris), a wild iris that is very attractive to bees. At this time of the year we really need that sparkle in the garden.
Original: 22cm square plus borders – unframed: £190
Giclee: 30cm square including 5cm border: £50
Day 17: A walk in winter
White Horse in the mist. The BEST walk in our neck of the woods is to visit the famous White Horse. I am exploring this area in a few larger paintings as well. The original galloped away ages ago but is on my website as a giclee.
Giclee in two sizes: Available as a giclee image:
70cm x 38cm £150; OR
42cm x 22cm: £75
The first day of Advent – 1 December
In the last few posts on the Oxfordshire Christmas trail, I will be showing the inner workings of my new series exploring the White Horse area, with a sightly different take. Using an aerial view we see The White Horse ‘galloping’ to Uffington castle. All that remains of the castle is a moat, so to suggest its noble 7thC status I have used aluminium overpainted and scratched a chequered design. This painting is 90m square and is in oils.
For more about The White Horse paintings, please visit my blog.