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Happy New Year

It’s 2023 and it’s starting as a warm one here in Norfolk UK. We rang in the new year as a family, including our daughter’s boyfriend. It was a fun evening of laughter, just dance, Wii sports and alcohol-free bubbly. We look forward to 2023 as a year of being happy, healthy, and full of …

Colour Friday Image created by David Newton for Holly Tucker MBE campaign to bring shoppers back to Small Business Owners

#ColourFriday

So today is #colourfriday – an initiative started by the fabulous Holly Tucker MBE the original founder of Not on the Highstreet Yesterday I met Holly, in Norwich, where she came to talk with around 100 small businesses from East Anglia, to promote her Colour Friday scheme. This scheme aims to ditch “black Friday” and …

Art on the Easel

Art College – Imaginative Landscapes

So module 1 is all done and dusted, we were looking at “imaginative landscapes” and that in itself takes on all sorts of connotations, but ultimately we were looking at how to paint a landscape, using a colour palette of our choice from the 4 seasons we had prepared and having composed a drawing from …

Malaya Blue Blue Credentials

Music is so Evocative!

Bit of a different post today, but I just have to tell you about this new album I am listening to. First and foremost I absolutely cannot believe that I met this artist on my Level 2 art course last year. M is so amazing at her charcoal animal figures artwork – and then to …

Swaffham Art Exhibition 29th & 30th October

I’m taking the plunge again and exhibiting some of my art again at a local Art Festival. This time however, both I and my Husband are taking part and showing some our own art work, all of which will be for sale. Swaffham Art Festival, has been running annually for the last 25 years, and …