This painting was one I did two years ago and I decided to do some more work to it. “Someone to Watch over Me” is a wish fulfillment painting. It sums up how I feel about the presence of a guardian angel who comes and goes in my life. Sometimes I can almost feel that […]
Painting Workshops “People and Places” Three workshops in July, drawing and painting in the lovely setting of Leonardslee Gardens. Location: Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens, Brighton Road, Lower Beeding, Horsham RH13 6PR Timings/duration: 5th, 12th & 19th July 2023 10am -4pm Cost: £225 10% discount Leonardslee members Link to the web page: https://www.leonardsleegardens.co.uk/all-events/paint-workshop-places-people or visit www.leonardsleegardens.co.uk If you would like […]
A new oil painting “Lazy Days” 59 x 42cm on a wood panel. This painting was just to remind us how lovely it is to just be and not worry about yesterday or tomorrow. Roll on lovely warm days soaking up the sun!
A new painting based on one I did some time ago called “The Dream”. In dreams I find I cannot go through a doorway, I’m not sure if there’s any colour and all sorts of people I know are mixed up together. I have tried to convey this uncertain quality in my painting. Acrylic 64 […]
I had feedback at my Open Studio at the weekend that the Guardian Angel in my painting “Someone to watch over me” looked threatening. So today I decided to soften it and make it more of a ghostly presence as it was meant to be comforting! I had some interesting conversations about this subject with […]
“Work, Love, Rest” has been accepted for the Society of Women Artist 161st Annual Exhibition 7th Sept. at the Mall Gallery in London. This painting is the last in my new series for 2022. I starting to think about the many repetitive jobs women do every week – the same T Shirt going through the […]
I’ve struggled lately to get lift-off with my painting but here is a new one that I really enjoyed doing. The theme is the idea of having a guardian angel and whilst I was working I was playing some jazz piano and one of the tracks was “Someone to watch over me” sung by the […]
The Mineral Point Gallery in Wisconsin USA is opening in August. Four of my paintings have gone there and I wish Ben Brummerhop and his partner Clay all the very best for their exciting new venture. Not having ever been there, it looks a lovely place to visit and is becoming a centre for art […]
I came across a little quote “Party while you can because no one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep”. This made me think about this last year when our lives have been on hold and wondering how we will look back on this time. Will we forget […]
“Joined by Monday morning” is an acrylic and charcoal painting 40 x 50cm. Whenever I travel on the tube I like to observe how different the people are on the train. Their clothes, their body language all attest to a life lived the weekend before. The only think linking them is the brief time they […]
I often wonder what we all see when we look at the same scene? Do we see different colours? What is the first thing that catches our attention? The assumption that we all of us see the same is unlikely. I find as my lifestyle and age changes, I tend to focus on people and […]
This oil painting is 40 x 50cm. In this picture I have tried to tell the narrative in shape and composition without too much detail. Detail for me is a rabbit hole that I go down very easily. Being simply is by far the difficult choice.
If you are searching for that unique piece of art then you will be spoilt for choice. 45 artists and makers show off their talents in central Horsham this October. I shall be on stand 31 with some paintings that mainly depict people in a stylised way. Our past exhibitions have shown the amazing standard […]
Horsham Art Fair 2025 is from 18th – 19th October at Parkside (County Hall North), Horsham, RH12 1AB Sat. 10-5pm, Sun 10-4pm. 46 artists and makers will be displaying their work for you to admire and to buy.
“The Pie Makers” is acrylic on canvas. 30x40cm. A celebration of this wonderful summer for fruit. The ever popular apple pie! My small apple tree has really surpassed itself this year.
“Leonardslee Gardens”. A painting in acrylic on canvas. 70 x 70cm. I was inspired by a lovely view on a walk around the lake and decided a landscape would make a nice change from my usual people paintings.
With so much gloom and doom around at the moment I thought I would do a painting to cheer myself up. I hope it cheers you too! “Feeling Great” is an oil on canvas at 40 x 30cm
“The Tennis Player”. A new oil sketch 30 x 30cm.
A third smaller painting ready for the Art Fair at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington on 16th May – 18th May. Called “Memories” it is in acrylic on board. Recently facebook have been sending me picture memories from several years ago. A very nice feature as life goes by so quickly it pulls me […]
Angela Brittain 