Historic, current and future projects

Brightlingsea Winterfest Wellbeing Weekend -Art & Craft Workshops 8th Feb & Wellbeing experiences 9th Feb 2025 at Brightlingsea Sailing Club 

The Brightlingsea Winterfest is an inclusive festival of arts, crafts creativity & music for all, community venues in Brightlingsea host all talents to chase away the Winter blues. We, the local artists, are very much part of it and run workshops for the local community, from beginners to advanced.   BSC now sponsor the Brightlingsea Winterfest by hosting our art & Craft workshops and the Wellbeing Weekend on the 8th &9th February  

#SunflowersForUKRAINE 

I donated  my painting "Sunflowers with Tears" otherwise "named the flower of UKRAINE"

God bless them all! 

Colchester Refugee Action ran an online auction which raised £700.00!! . I painted it in 2004 having travelled to Kjiev during the Orange Revolution.

A wonderful project for Essex artists to contribute a page of their art to this sketchbook that at the end of the year is a bible of work. I am very proud to have been invited to draw in the book - must say it is such a precious thing - makes me really nervous.

We are delighted to be hosting the Travelling Sketchbook at the Brightlingsea Art and Craft Trail 20-21 July 2019 - hopefully we can revive the tradition in 2025 it has sadly lost council funding 

Boats and water -

We initiated the Brightlingsea Regatta Art & Crafts Trail allowing artists as local businesses to book indoor venues  to show their work in 2022 - hopefully we can revive this event in 2025

Among my favoutite projects in Germay was to bring a museum to life for kids.  Urzeithof Fehrenboetel. The original work is on permanent loan at the Museum. All "Dinos" are available as Prints and art cards directly from me.

I look forward to similar projects working with kids and natural pigments for example

A very moving project to bring the "outside in" using wall art for residential patients and staff at this amazing  facility for patients with learning disablitilies in Thorrington. the work done with Susan Wood is now in the Cygnet Health Trust journal 

Sadly the patients have been dispersed following a private take-over