Fresh off the easel this month is the view looking down towards 'Steephill Cove' in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. This painting was inspired by a photo I took one late afternoon around the beginning of February a couple of years ago, we'd been out walking the dog and as I walked back up the hill I turned around and saw the sun's rays poking through the clouds, I've been meaning to paint this scene ever since. As you can see I have turned it into my own colourful, magical world usin

Thank you to all the lovely people that visited my Isle of Wight Open Studios this month it was great to welcome so many wonderful visitors and share my artwork with them and get such positive feedback and I'm so grateful for all of the people that bought from me, it gives me such a buzz and makes it all so worthwhile. I'm already thinking about all the paintings I want to create ready for next years event. But for now I'm going to be taking a short break for the rest of the

I was hoping to have had my bluebell painting finished by now especially as they are in full bloom at the moment, but unfortunately I haven't done as much painting as I'd have liked this month due to the Easter Holidays but I have managed to finish this one which I started back in January, it's of Steephill Cove looking towards Woody Point on the Isle of Wight. I've called it 'Last Light' as it was painted from a photograph that I'd taken about half hour before sunset on a Ja

'The Witches' Cauldron' is the aptly named title of my painting this month just in time for Halloween. I managed to get away to Wales with my family this half-term holiday and I found a circular walk amongst the holiday cottage information which we decided to do on one of the days it wasn't actually raining! Although the cliff edge did get a little bit close for comfort at times it was well worth it, as the Pembrokeshire coastal scenery was stunning, we followed the winding c

Because of one thing and another it feels like an eternity since I last did a painting, I have finally been able to quite literally dust off my paints and create again, it was heaven and I have missed it. Hence this months painting which I've aptly titled 'Heaven on Earth', it is based on a photograph I took on an early December morning dog walk along Shanklin beach, Isle of Wight last year. I was attracted to paint this picture as I loved the way the sun's rays were poking o

This painting didn't quite turn out as envisaged, I think some bits have worked out better than others for example the sky and the sea, I'm not so sure about the foreground sand and stream leading in though and I had a bit of a disaster trying to paint the stream see slide 8 it just wasn't working so I wiped it off! I've added some progression photographs as usual and the original reference photo which was my inspiration. #seascape #sunrise #appleysunrise #coastalpainting #c

I always start the year feeling really enthusiastic and optimistic and look forward to new beginnings hence this big, wide painting. Although I haven't finished it yet I have got further with it than I ever thought I would this month as I've found this size canvas (100cm x 50cm) a little overwhelming at times and it has been difficult to focus at the moment especially with homeschooling happening alongside. Other things I have had trouble with has been the lighting, where th

I considered it was about time that I created a painting from my home town of Shanklin where I live on the Isle of Wight. Most people know this view as Dunnose however my husband begs to differ and pointed out to me that the cliff is actually called 'Knock Cliff'. Well anyway I produced this painting and apparently broadly speaking the place-name element os in Dunnose can mean God (Celtic) the place-name element dun in Dunnose can mean fort (Scots Gaelic Irish) so I'm going