Struggling with tech issues, illness, and holidays.

After struggling with health issues for the last year, holidays came as a welcome respite, which also coincided with a turn around of a pesky chest infection. Holidays allow you to have a period of introspection, and reassessment, in other words a complete break and reset. I love my work, which is an honest passion for my. subject matter. As a child I grew up in the countryside, and the fields and hedgerows were my happy place, there is nothing sophisticated about that, but, the love of the countryside that surrounded me, has informed who I am, and my work is my homage to those early memories. The only cloud on my bucolic horizon is the world of tech!, it is not my natural environment, however, communication is key, and needs must. drive me to at least, acquaint myself with the monster, to the best of my ability.

Holiday Inspiration

How I use relief and texture to enhance and add definition to design

I use oil based gesso to apply relief to a panel, artists such as Margaret McDonald used a similar type of relie. I use different types of application, trailing, and layeri, and, I can also add materials, for example sand, and I can also embed, it is such a brilliant medium.

As you can see from the image above, I have trailed on the gesso, which drys rock hard, and allows for another dimension to add to the panel. I make my own oil based gesso, base on an historic recipe.

One of 2 panels recently completed

All panels are unique, but on these 2 recent ones, I have added a background of meadow flowers . I was requested to include bees which have been highlighted in gold.
Outline of winged creatures have a raised gesso outline and body parts, painted in acrylic paints, lustres and inks.