A French Lion

Why hello there!

I am back from my week’s break in the beautiful Midi-Pyrenees region of France. I could have spent some serious time there if only I had taken my paints. Mind you, I would have had to come home eventually. So, what did I achieve artistically whilst there (bearing in mind this was meant to be a holiday)? Well, I did a fair amount of preparatory sketches for a pair of paintings I have been desperate to do for years (watch this space). I also did this drawing which I hope will eventually form the basis of a series of Lion and Tree images.

My head seems so full of ideas and pictures forming in the swirling mists of my brain. There just isn’t enough time in the day to get them all on paper even when I can make sense of them. Frustrating indeed but a thousand times better than the creative blindness I have suffered in the past. There’s no doubt, however, that I am having fun with my art and really feel as though it’s starting to grow into something.