Category Archives: Painting

Monday Art: Mount Pico and Sailing Regatta

August 2, 2021art, Azores, Paintingart, azores, Painting, sailingThe Cheesesellers Wife

In August 2013, we came back from a whale watching trip to find a sailing regatta between us and the harbour:

Monday Art: Two predators

July 26, 2021art, Paintingart, dragon, PaintingThe Cheesesellers Wife

Two predators, one real, one fantasy……

Ocean Blues

March 11, 2020nature, Painting, poem, Poetrynature, Ocean, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Horizon to horizon, seeming limitless
amniotic, her salt courses our veins
waters of our longing

Magma Cave

July 3, 2019art, Azores, beauty, nature, Painting, poem, Poetryazores, beauty, Furna do Enxofre, nature, poem, poetry, volcanoThe Cheesesellers Wife

Shards of rock lie silent
as ferns lean toward the sun
along the sides of the great vent
cut into a perfect dome above
sulphur from a tepid celadon lake
fills the air

From a visit to Furna do Enxofre, an empty magma chamber on Graciosa island in the Azores. Empty of magma, not fumes….

…the painting is my own, and one of several of the vent….

Art: Dragon Geode

May 6, 2019art, dragon, Paintingabstract, acrylics, art, dragon, dragons, Eastercon, geode, PaintingThe Cheesesellers Wife

Deep on the earth, crystals grow…and perhaps Dragons too….

(shown at Eastercon 2019)

Pheonix rising —and gone!

April 25, 2019art, Painting, Poetryacrylics, art, Eastercon, Painting, pheonix, YtterbiumThe Cheesesellers Wife

I am both happy and somewhat sad this week. I exhibited several of my paintings at Ytterbium, the 2019 Eastercon — a science fiction convention that was held across the Easter weekend. Amazingly I sold three paintings, which is wonderful, but this means that I will never see my lovely Phoenix again. She’s off to Los Angeles California and this is all I now have of her:

Here I am at the Eastercon Art Show with my paintings:

Painting: Aftermath

April 1, 2019art, Painting, watercolourart of living, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

A car left abandoned in a field:

Painting: My kind of Dragon

March 25, 2019art, dragon, Fantasy, Painting, watercolourart, dragon, dragons, Fandom, Fantasy, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

When I set about trying to paint a dragon for my good friend Larry, I was keen not to copy anyone elses dragons. This is what I came up with:

Painting : Valley of the Rocks

March 18, 2019art, England, exmoor, Painting, Poetry, watercolourart, exmoor, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Here is a watercolour view of the Valley of the Rocks on Exmoor:

Painting and Poem: Art for my sake

March 13, 2019art, Painting, poem, Poetry, watercolourart, Painting, poem, poetry, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Art for my sake

Brush in hand
I decide on the first stroke
Relieved to have got this far
Having chosen what to paint
Searching through ideas
Photos
Then mixing the colours
A bit of this
No, not that
Thinning, adding
Finally
Pausing
Contemplating the paper
That moment of peace
Stillness
Before I take action