Gosh what’s this? Another blog in just over a week? Things are looking up.
Into the Deep
These last few days have been full of ups and downs, but we all have those, particularly this year, and it can be so tough to get through those darker days.
My way of dealing with them is to spend time in the garden, reading and enjoying art. When you think about it they all connect, from designing the layout of our gardens, what plants and colours go where, to reading a book which may transport us to another place, connecting us in some way to a time past or thoughts of the future.
The View at Dinner
There is a creative mind in all of us, and we make that decision how we may choose to nurture it.
I have found picking up the paintbrush is a natural progression for my own creative mind, as I continually explore connections between photography and painting.
For someone who has only been able to play at it, and not very well at that, I have spent so much time admiring many artists and wishing I could make beautiful works of art like Turner, or Monet for example, and the camera has up to a point given me the opportunity to explore ways of doing that through my photography.
Padley Gorge
The Online Foundation Course I’ve chosen to do for a year through the Open College of Arts is giving me time in which to explore different techniques in painting and their meanings through research and practical assignments which for me go hand in hand and also work alongside my photography.
“The sky is the source of light and it governs everything”
John Constable
I never stop learning.
Sunset Reflections
Skies over Peak District