2018-12-07 15:51
GREETINGS to you all, should you still be here on this quietest of blogs!This is a small note to you from the depths of my busy creative, mothering days as we descend into another wintering… Read More
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The Hermitage - Paintings in a minor key
2017-11-15 19:19
HUGE SKIES full of light and dark and wintering and wondering crown the granite tors of Dartmoor this November, as the mists creep in; and I return here, nearly a year on from my last post… Read More
2017-02-15 22:40
Dear friends and longtime followers of this blog, which I began nearly a decade ago... It has been very quiet here, and I am sorry: it appears that raising a little one whilst building a tra… Read More
2016-02-02 15:30
OVER THE YEARS OF BEING AN ARTIST, I have come to think of and describe my paintings as Waymarkers to the Otherworlds, as gateways, portals, signposts to take you through to those Other plac… Read More
2014-10-31 15:05
FABLES ARE BEING PAINTED in this South Western corner of England, and gathered for a unique and extraordinary exhibition of visual storytelling, to which all who would come and get lost in m… Read More
2014-10-23 10:52
"Wheels have turned in my life since before I can remember. The characters in my paintings are wheeled, their houses are wheeled; my stories are wheeled. Handcarts and wagons and caravans ha… Read More
2014-10-16 22:07
ONCE UPON A TIME, there was an artist, a storyteller and a 1960's Bedford RL lorry... They lived in troubled times – sometimes it seemed like the magic had all run out of the world and… Read More
2014-10-04 12:55
photo by Miriam BoyAROUND MY NECK hangs an amulet - a magic thing wrought by me in metal and stone! I've always had a love of ancient talismanic jewellery made from the less precio… Read More
2014-09-13 08:56
SOMETIMES my paintings take new and unplanned directions, either because I am deliberately trying to break my own rules, or because the project calls for me to step beyond them, as in this c… Read More
2014-09-10 16:22
DO YOU REMEMBER the days when the buttercups danced across the fields, when the sun was so high in the sky, and the summer days flew by like the swallows, here only for a bit, beautiful in t… Read More
2014-08-03 09:43
I HAVE BEEN WOODCARVING! For the last few months a puppet has been in the making in my studio-on-the-other-side-of-a-trapdoor, as the summer rains and suns have lashed my windows.Puppet… Read More
2014-06-29 15:58
I WAS RECENTLY SENT a picture of my Weed Wife print framed most exquisitely, and thought that it deserved to be shared with you here. This picture (above) was sent to me by Stacey Carroll&nb&hell…Read More
2014-06-18 14:35
AN IVY BRANCH hugs a tree with fierce love, its arms and legs making us believe it is almost a person. All over this ivy-person's body are painted people: bird-people, plant-people, animal-p… Read More
2014-06-12 15:15
ON THE ROAD OF MY NAME, a motley band of travelling misfits vagabond their way to Another Place...And thus you enter my new website! I have kept a rather dusty web-place for some years now… Read More
2014-05-13 10:53
MAY! She has skipped in barefoot, trailing her beautiful skirts through our days. It has taken me a surprisingly long time to land after our Australasian travels: my seasonal clock has been… Read More
2013-12-01 18:08
ONE ICY MORNING as the light crept over the edge of my day, I stepped out into the frosted world and found there on the cold ground a lost wing of summer, its flutter of gold now flightless… Read More
2013-11-24 18:19
THE HERMITAGE 2014 CALENDAR has proved popular beyond my imaginings! The first and second print runs whooshed off the shelf like the hottest of winter cakes, and still many people missed out… Read More
2013-11-16 19:34
SINCE THE WINDS CAME, the yellowing leaves of the year and the last apples have fallen into our gathering early dusks, and we have looked out beyond the black sky-writing of the now bar… Read More
2013-11-09 13:32
A SMILING PAGAN SUN rises on the cover of my brand new Hermitage 2014 Calendar, welcoming in twelve months of art - wonderful and strange and turning with the seasons. I am exceedingly… Read More
2013-10-29 21:57
UNDER A MOUNTAIN-BLUE SKY a woman weaves prayers into the winds that blow over the bright lands of her birth. The Himalayan light adorns her, and the colours all around her glow je… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This photograph seems to encapsulate how I feel right now. It was taken (by the wondrous Sylvia Linsteadt who came to visit! but more of that another time) in the early autumn sun as I strod… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
IT'S AN AEON AND A MINUTE since I stood on that shore looking out over the then unknown seas of motherhood which were to wash over me just a few days after this photo was taken. And now my… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
IN THE MIST OF MY STUDIO WINDOW ivy has been tracing silhouettes of cathedrals; evergreen hymns to the light in the darkness of winter, in which we are now fully planted. I have sat th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
THE HERMITAGE 2015 CALENDAR IS HERE! This year, my calendar is bigger (by popular demand) - there's more room to write in the days' doings. And it contains some never-before seen painti… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
THESE FEET, shod in second hand boots from New Zealand, are once more reunited with beloved Dartmoor soil from which, unaccountably, primroses spring! It is strange and lovely to be hom… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
THE LITTLE GIRL in this picture is my maternal grandmother Lois Florymel Thorn Hunter (née Shutes), with her parents Elsie and Arthur (and a bear). It was taken a century ag… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
WILD WINDS HOWL OUTSIDE and blow sleety rain sideways. Yesterday the fields and lanes around the village here were turned to seas by the torrential weather. Beyond the dark windowpanes our h… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
BEFORE ANOTHER YEAR has passed me by I wanted to show you some sign painting I did last year for two local friends. The first was for Yuli Sømme of Bellacouche Felt Studio - whos… Read More
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