Lincspirational Plants

 

The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust invited artists to participate in their LoveLincsPlants project - Lincspirational Plants.

They wanted paintings inspired by plants on their list. These are my entries.

All the paintings will be exhibited online followed by an auction.

30 entries will be chosen to be projected onto buildings in Lincolnshire.

Blackrock Cottage, Glencoe

I painted Blackrock Cottage, Glencoe for my local art society Snow Challenge.

Not a subject I would usually tackle but I enjoyed the process and am happy with the result.

Starting with a photo I took several years ago without snow 

I referenced similar photos from the internet with snow.

Now for sale on my ETSY shop

Having a clear out

The horrible weather has finally given me the impetus to have a sort out. Some years ago my Mum handed me a rolled up bundle of papers which on inspection turned out to be my entire secondary school paintings !!

This was the least curled of them, the rest will have to flatten a bit before I can take photos. I was 16 when I painted this view of Pulborough in West Sussex as part of my Art A-level. I remember my art teacher telling me that the perspective of the pub was all wrong & me telling her that had she been to the village she would have known that the building didn't conform to the ideal - there was probably truth in both !! The pub is now long gone having been replaced by a cardboard block of town houses.

ETSY shop

Added 15 ACEO's to my ETSY shop

An ACEO is a small work of art measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

Etsy Shop

Finally relaunched my Etsy shop.

This mounted watercolour of Cley Mill plus others and encaustic wax cards are now for sale.

More will follow as I have time
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/OwlsAcreStudio

Cley Mill now SOLD

Happy Christmas 2015

Watercolour painting based on photographs taken in La Palma - one of the small steep Canary Islands

Chilli painting

Red - Capsicum baccatum 'Bishop's Crown'
Brown - Capsicum chinense 'Chocolate Naga'
Orange - Capsicum baccatum 'Aji Habanero'
White - Capsicum chinense 'Aribibi Gusano'
A6 notecard from a watercolour painting
For sale in packs of 8 at the 
RHS Wisley Harvest Weekend 24/25th October on our chilli stand

At last I managed time to get brush to paper !!
Now it's a mad rush to get ready for the show, picking huge numbers of chillies.

Wisley Sweet Pea Day

The National Sweet Pea Society are having their annual open day at the RHS Wisley gardens in Surrey on the 13th June. 

Miss Willmott print

Why not visit the show and the trial grounds. I'll be there with a display of my notelets, cards, prints & painting - all Sweet Peas of course. 

My husband, Mark Rowland of Owl's Acre Sweet Peas, will be there as well.

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a Happy New Year

Helleborus Niger 'Christmas Rose'

Hope everyone had as good a Christmas as we did and are looking forward to the New Year.
I'm hoping that this will be the year that I get 'kick started' again with my painting.

Sweet Pea Stationery

Sweet Pea Stationery

A new page on my website dedicated to all things Sweet Pea
- cards, notelets, prints and a booklet on how to grow them.

Robin

Robin, originally uploaded by pica pica.

This was my first bird painting ever. It took about 12 hours to paint and 3 hours to clean up the scan.
Painted using Winsor & Newton artist quality watercolours on RWS hot pressed paper. I use RWS paper as it is the whitest paper available and usually scans well.
View this on my website as a notecard. Ideal as a Christmas card or thankyou note.