I’m so happy to share that ‘Midsummer Oak’ has been selected to be shown alongside work by other artists and creatives as part of @artskeele
‘NEW NOW NEXT‘ exhibition.
The exhibition which opens February 6th will showcase contempory work by artists and creatives from Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire who took part in The Three Counties Open Art Exhibition 2025.
‘Midsummer Oak’ (polychromos coloured pencils on Fabriano paper) is a portrait of the beautiful tree which has stood for many years at the gate.
It supports animals and birds that I see and many smaller species that I don’t.
It distracts me as I stare at it and through it towards The Wrekin when I’m supposed to be working in the studio.
And the seasonal changes from when frost coats each twig (it looks incredible) to the first olive green shoots, full foliage, then acorns and autumn colours are fascinating.
In this piece it’s high summer and the oak is at its peak.
Seen here with the gate and bird table. Why the bird table? I like the difference in scale between the man made bird-feeder and the natural one. 🌳
Framed by @ironbridgefinearts
For Sale
‘New Now Next’
Feb 6th- 25th
Chancellor Building
Keele University
Staffs
#drawing #colouredpencils #treesinart #staffordshire #worksonpaper
I’m beyond thrilled to have been shortlisted for The John Ruskin Prize Exhibition. Can you tell?
A lively and bustling Private View last night for this year’s exhibition with the theme
‘Patience in Looking. Truth in Making’
There were 91 pieces of work across a wide variety of disciplines and I was excited to find out where my drawing ‘River Severn Trees’ would be shown.
Delighted to find it beside an amazing piece of work by an artist I ‘know’ via Instagram, Tessa Maiden.
Such a wide range of exhibits, showcasing incredible skills.
✨Huge congratulations to the prize winners 👏 👏👏
It was great to meet
@bridget.tennent.the.ceramicist
@dangoode_makinggoode
@elliehowitt
@stephanienpartistcurator
@tessamaidenstudio (and sister Jo)
@tzionessel
and always lovely to catch up with
Emma Parker and Marine Costello from @parkerharrisco @artistmentoring
And the absolute perfect end to a fab evening?
On the way home I noticed that my drawing had been sold 🔴
🌳A great big Thankyou!! 🌳
Huge thanks to the selectors,
Victoria Pomerey OBE
@maryevansartist
@nshasore
@julianwildsculpture
@trinitybuoywharf
@thebigdraw
@parkerharrisco
The exhibition (free to enter) is now open.
#johnruskin #drawing #trinitybuoywharf #londonexhibitions #thebigdraw
I’ve delivered my artwork to Trinity Buoy Wharf for The 7th John Ruskin Prize which opens on Thursday.
I feel so privileged to have been selected for this exciting exhibition which showcases interdisciplinary works responding to this year’s theme-
Patience in Looking. Truth in Making
It will include includes 91 pieces of work by 81 creatives, and it was exciting to see people arriving with such interesting work yesterday.
My artwork ‘River Severn Trees’ is a drawing of the bank of trees which stretch down to the river at Ironbridge.
When I visit the wonderful @ironbridgefinearts I can never resist pausing to watch the river. There is a silence in that view and a sense of the power of nature.
‘River Severn Trees’
Polychromos coloured pencil on Fabriano paper
Framed and glazed @artglass_by_groglass
#johnruskin #drawing #figurativeart #trees #availableart
Thankyou to the selectors
Victoria Pomery OBE
@maryevansartist
@nshasore
@julianwildsculpture
Also @parkerharrisco
@thebigdraw
@trinitybuoywharf
@fabercastelluk
The John Ruskin Prize (free entry)
Jan 29- Feb 21
Wed, Thurs, Fri 11- 5
Sat, Sun 10 - 5
I’m so happy to have a piece of work selected for the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Friends Exhibition 2026.
A great evening at the Private View. Lovely to catch up with familiar faces from the RBSA , and have some good old conversations about life, the universe and Art.
@edisaacsartist PRBSA
@clairerileyfineart
@sarahjaneling
@lyndawhiteart
@wytonmills
@gwenda_jones_sculpture
@rachel.dowling.jones
@rbsagallery
‘Willow Pattern on Moss’ - (Polychromos coloured pencil on Fabriano paper)
is inspired by the many pottery pieces found in my garden, sometimes on the surface, unearthed by birds and moles and waiting to be found.
Some gardeners don’t like moss: but I love the tiny forests that are within it. 🌿
The tiny piece of pottery has the familiar design which echoes the moss.
The exhibition runs until Feb 7th 2026
#drawing #figurativeart #artforsale #worksonpaper #birmingham
I’m thrilled that my drawing
‘River Severn Trees’ has been selected for the Ruskin Prize Exhibition 2026
‘Patience in Looking. Truth in Making’
I can still hardly believe that out of nearly 4000 entries I’m one of the approx 82 artists and creatives with shortlisted work.
A huge Thankyou to selectors
Victoria Pomery OBE
@nshasore
@maryevansartist
@julianwildsculpture
The John Ruskin Prize,
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Jan 29th - Feb 21st
@trinitybuoywharf
@thebigdraw
@parkerharrisco
#ruskinprize #drawing #landscape #shropshire #ironbridge
⭐️The 172 RWA Annual Open Exhibition has only a few days left.
It’s the perfect place to escape the festive bustle and all pieces, if not already snapped, up are for sale.
With around 4000 entries I am thrilled to have had three pieces of my work included in the 500 selected. A wonderful experience to be exhibited alongside an incredible and diverse collection of work.
My pieces of work are all linked to my collection of Staffordshire pottery fragments found while gardening. A born collector of small interesting finds I can’t help but clean them up and store.
Finding, cleaning, ‘treasuring’ them, and making artwork is an act of respect for the people who designed them and the hundreds of people who created them in the pottery industry.
The previous inhabitants here used them and they were thrown in the garden when broken.
🔹“Thirty Six Pieces from a Staffordshire Garden” celebrates a small selection of the range of patterns found.
Watercolour/Gouache and coloured pencil. £600
Framed using museum quality glass to cut down reflection and UV damage.
◽️“The Garden Pottery Jug” once belonged to my late grandfather and poured many an ale. Now full of pottery pieces it only recently occurred to me that it too had a history and a stoic beauty.
Coloured pencil drawing £550
Framed using non reflective UV resistant glass as above.
🔹”Two Pieces Reunited” Having found two matching pieces I was interested to try and find exactly what this cup might have looked like. I found the pattern online and then the cup shape indicated by the ‘ghost outline’.
Watercolour/gouache and coloured pencil £350
Framed (as above)
Thankyou to selectors
RWA Academician artists
Fiona Robinson, Hamish Young
@roscuthbertfineart , @annagillespiesculpture
@jemma_gunning_artist
External Selectors
@harold_offeh
@anitataylor_
@davidtriggwriter
And a huge Thankyou to
@rwabristol
.. for TWO Private Views (if you know you know 😉 🚒)
www.rwa.org.uk/rwaopen
🟥 Ends Dec 28th
#artforsale #openart #ownart #affordableart #bristol
The 172nd Royal West of England Academy Open exhibition closes at the end of December. Just a couple of weeks to visit this beautifully curated collection of work.
I am incredibly proud to have had three pieces of work selected and along with mine here is a small selection from the many that I loved.
All pieces (if not already sold) are for sale via RWA. Follow link in @rwabristol for their website.
1 ‘Two Pieces Reunited’
2 ‘36 Pieces from a Staffordshire Garden’
3 ‘The Garden Pottery Jug’
4 @lisamceleny_art
5 @karenpainterart
6 @catherineknight
7 @heathermcateerart
8 E. Chevannes echevannes
9 Hammer Chen
10 Andrew Bloxham
11 Rosalind Richardson RWA
12 @khana_khan_artist
@caseydanielwilliams
@rosejonesstudio
#rwa #bristol #drawing #painting #sculpture #textiles #film #ceramics #staffordshirechina
A lovely ‘Congratulations’ email means I’m very happy to say that my drawing ‘Willow Pattern on Moss’ has been selected for the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Friends exhibition.
The drawing is one of a series of drawings and paintings featuring fragments of Staffordshire pottery I’ve found in the garden over the past 15 years.
Usually they’re buried but occasionally, moved around by moles and foraging birds, they’re lying on the surface. I found one (as this one one is) nicely displayed on a mossy mound.
I love drawing moss, it’s a tiny forest and I chose the Willow Pattern piece to echo the moss form.
‘Willow Pattern on Moss’
Polychromos coloured pencils
34 x 34 cm Framed using @artglass_by_groglass
£420
The exhibition opens with a Private View Jan 8th 6-8pm
#drawing #figurativeart #worksonpaper #polychromos #fabercastell #stilllife #moss #history #birmingham #jewelleryquarter #staffordshirepottery #fragments #willowpattern
Just the sound of me drawing trees.
Part 2
Still building up the layers.
#riversevern #shropshire #ironbridge #river #drawing #trees #landscape #polychromos #colouredpencils #worksonpaper #figurativeart #figurativeartist
Work in progress. I’m drawing another version of the river Severn view at Ironbridge, this time with the first hints of autumn fire. There must be beech trees in there maybe?
I’ve spent quite some time on it, with more to do and really need to get to grips with the colours and patterns in the water.
I love this view: the chaos of the bank of trees and the stripe of river at the base. Also the dark depths through those trees, I find myself looking at negative spaces a lot in this to define the tree shapes.
Better get on.. I’m hoping to finish it to enter in an Open art call and deadline not far away, as per.
#drawing #worksonpaper #landscape #polychromos #colouredpencils
#river #shropshire #ironbridge #workinprogress #wip #onmytable #figurativeart #figurativeartist #womenartists #autumn #trees #reflections
