Acrylic on board
2026
25cm x 35cm
Dark wood tray frame
£420
Dome Cinema
Looking back at the end of the day from Worthing Pier to the town. I loved the contrast of the cobalt blues with the rusty oranges.
Acrylic
2026
27cm x 35cm
Dark wood tray frame
£420
View across Loch Yethom
Friends of mine live next to Loch Yetholm, near Kelso in the Borders. I was drawn to the ochre light from the late sun.
Little Knoll
Oil on canvas board
I climbed up Cold Kitchen hill with my painting gear and lunch, then spent four hours painting. Using the plein air painting with reference photos, I completed it in my studio over a few sessions. The landscape is very typical of the Salisbury Plain, very different from the area around where I live in Frome, Somerset.
2021
Walnut tray frame
39cm x 26cm
£450
Old School House Poppies
Oil on board
Every year these orangey-red blowsy poppies fill a corner of my garden. They are always welcome and contrast well with the bright blue and purple perennial cornflowers, centaurea montana. I enjoyed painting in a slightly more stylised way detailing the leaves and flowers.
2021
Dark wood tray frame
37cm x 26cm
£420
The Woodland Garden Next Door
Oil pastel on paper
A neighbour planted her garden from scratch over 25 years ago. It has now grown into a small wooded haven with tall weeping birches and an upright beech. The colours in the autumn are a delight, and the trees are always busy with birds and insects. I love the contrast of white bark against the russets and cool blues.
2019
46 x 34 cm
Framed behind glass
£375
Gosford Bridge
Oil on canvas board
For a painting day out led by Gregory Mason ROI we were asked to paint the old brick bridge spanning the River Otter. I used a limited colour palette on a canvas board, painting over a four hour period. Good exercise to do though I finished the painting in the studio, adding a little cerulean blue to the colour palette.
2022
Unframed
61cm x 46cm
£620
Bolter's Bridge
Acrylic Ink on board
One of a series of four pack-horse bridge paintings:
Bolter’s Bridge is an ancient bridge in the Somerset hamlet of Hornblotton, (horn-blowing), where travellers were warned if the river was too high to cross the bridge safely. It is still used by riders, on the 625 mile Monarch’s Way, a path closely following the escape route taken by Charles 1.
I liked the way the paving stones were laid to follow the bend in the old drover’s route.
2018
36 x 43 cm
Dark wood tray frame
£515
Bow Bridge
Acrylic ink on board
The narrow bridge in Bruton is one of only 16 single span packhorse bridges left in the country. The name Bow Bridge aptly describes the shape, although the name is no longer in use. It is now a footbridge over the River Brue only not used by horses.
I liked the colour of the stone heightened by the late afternoon sun, and enjoyed the application of layers of translucent inks.
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2018
49 x 65cm
Dark wood tray frame
£630
Crossing the Yeo
Acrylic ink on board
Pill Bridge is a well-documented 17th Century packhorse bridge on a drovers’ road between the parishes of Ilchester and Long Sutton in Somerset. It is only 4’ wide with a span of 54 feet. It replaces an earlier 13th Century bridge and was the unloading point for goods destined for Ilchester. There was also a warehouse at the site until 1805. Now it is still used for horses along a well-trodden bridleway.
2018
43 x 36 cm
White tray frame
£540
Oil pastel on board
2015
32 x 32cm
Dark wood tray frame
£330
Past Reflections
I always love walking round the lake at Stourhead, which is our nearest National Trust place. Also I show my work at the First View Gallery in the courtyard. This view of the Lake is one I enjoy whenever I go for a visit.
Acrylic/mixed media
2015
32 x 32cm
Dark wood tray frame
£350
Small Cave Entrance
I came across this tiny cave near Fussell’s Iron Works on a popular wooded walk along the Mells River from Frome. It is lovely any time of the year, with the ruins of the Iron Works an added, though rather precarious attraction!
Beneath the Bulbs
Oil on canvas
As a young girl I went for a walk in an ancient wood with my mother who reminisced how a friend had been so overcome by the heady sensual smell of bluebells, she’d taken off her clothes to roll about in the flowers!
On a more thoughtful note, Postlebury Wood put me in mind of what lies beneath bluebells – the rich earth busy with new life of plants & insects - in contrast to the gorgeous colour and scent of bluebells.
2015
63 x 63 cm
Dark wood tray frame
£830
Forgotten Corner
Oil on canvas
Part of a much-loved walk round the fishponds in Witham Friary. This area of the lakes were always muddy but did have king-cups growing every year, brightening up a dark corner. The painting is from the winter showing even a dismal corner can have a bit of magical colour.
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2015
50 x 65 cm
Dark wood tray frame
£810