Easter orchids and cuckoos…

Heard my first cuckoo yesterday above Rosebush and this morning I saw my first orchids down at Llandeilo, spring has truly sprung!

The weather has been amazing and the sunsets have been fantastic. The colours this landscape produces are awe inspiring.

This morning I walked in Llandeilo woods past the old mill and over the quarry, evidence of the past everywhere, mulling over ideas for new glass pieces….

Today I am preparing my studio for students who are coming on a weekend painting course, looks like being a great weekend!

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Estuary Walking

Long estuary walk this morning at Newport mulling over ideas and my Arts Council application. Grass Hopper Warblers in profusion!

Letting in the light…

Walking at Newport in the glorious light of early spring, and thinking about glass and transmitted light and colour.

Spent a few hours on the Parrog with my paints and started to find my way back into it all….

Warmed up with delicious home-made mushroom soup at Lou Lou`s Café – perfect!

River roses

Two perfect white roses washed up along the estuary set me wondering and thinking about the rituals we invent, so I helped them on their journey out to sea.

Newport Freeze!

Another exceptional walk in a transformed landscape today, this time at Newport, Pembrokeshire. We left the grumpy teenager in Mor Awelon Cafe sipping hot chocolate and nursing a dental extraction, and walked Alfie round to the beach. It was amazing to see frozen spume and piles of ice shards on the sand and sheets of ice draped by the falling tide…

Again the ice is an inspiration, covering and revealing the landscape, layering texture and colour.

It is almost too much visual excitement! It will take a while to process it all, let it gestate and emerge in my work…

I am thinking about my glass casting and embedding landscape detail all the while…

Then there is the colour, the frozen foam like a river of marble flowing to the distance… as you can see it is difficult not to get carried away!

After warming up with a fine parsnip soup back at Mor Awelon, I collected three paintings to complete my New Year Show which opens on 27th December for one week.

Join us for a glass of mulled wine anytime until 3rd January at the gallery in Maenclochog in the Preseli Hills.