Blog Two

My motivation this week has been mostly pecuniary. In that I photographed and digitally rendered the above illustrations of local houses with the sole aim of ‘hawking my wares’ and knocking on their doors in order to make a sale. Don’t try this at home as once the occupant of the house gets out from behind the curtains and answers the door, they don’t like being accosted in this way and it certainly doesn’t lead to a sale. However, I enjoyed painting the houses and found the interpretation of  the windows challenging and have ended up with an aesthetically pleasing result.

Another gruelling week applying for membership of a craft collective. ‘Develop your work’ ‘make it your own’. I wish I knew what they meant. I am developing my work all the time and I think it’s unique,  and get a bit disheartened when rejected.

To end on a happy note, I sold an original print at  Oriel Q gallery in Narberth and some cards at a pop-up exhibition in Pembroke this week.. So, all is not lost. Winters approaching with lots of photo opportunities of stunning landscapes here in West Wales.

The Queen of England died yesterday and the world is in mourning. I have made a slight change in my painting and produced a blueprint for a pencil and watercolour of Pembroke main street in the rain. I very much like urban landscapes and find the most mundane scenes have their own beauty.